The 5, 394 newly recruited teachers for public schools by the Abia State Government are expected to assume work on Monday, September 22, 2025 when the 2025/2026 academic session kicks off.
Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, disclosed this last Sunday during a Church Service at Salvation Ministries, 135 Okigwe Road, Aba, where he had gone to worship.
Governor Otti told the congregation that the recruitment exercise was transparently, ensuring that only the qualified got the job, irrespective of where they came from.
”In everything we do, we put righteousness first. In our recruitment, we hired 5, 394 teachers. On the 22nd of this month (September), they would all assume work.
”But the interesting thing is that there was no list – no Governor’s list, no Deputy Governor’s list, no Senator’s list, – like it used to be in the past.
”Everything was done transparently. You apply, you write the test, you sit for the interview and then we take people from number one until we draw the line,” the Governor explained.
He urged the people to make it their responsibility to protect public infrastructure being put in place by his administration; as well as ensure that their environment were kept clean as Aba has been cleaned up by his administration and was no longer the dirty place it was known for in the past.
He further encouraged the people to always fulfill their civic responsibility of paying their taxes as government was already fulfilling its own obligations to the citizens.
“If we have done what we need to do as a government, then your own responsibility is to also do what you have to do, including paying your taxes. We have been very mild with taxes because we also understand how taxes work,” the Governor added.
Gov. Otti commended the people of Aba for appreciating the Government’s efforts in the construction of roads and the provision of other social amenities and announced that an unnamed person magnanimously donated N200 million to government because government built a decades-long collapsed road connecting his area to other places.
