Nigeria, Oct. 6 -- The Abia State Government has reacted to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu's remarks that the achievements of Governor Alex Otti's administration was not commensurate with the funds received from the federation account.

The government said on Monday that the federal lawmaker, who is from Abia, displayed "sheer ignorance and rascality" in his remarks.

"You cannot be getting the kind of money you are getting and you are doing the job that former governors were doing with the less they were getting.

"The former governors got N4 billion, N5 billion. But today Tinubu releases N38 billion, N40 billion every month," Mr Kalu, a member of the ruling APC, had said on Sunday while addressing of t...