Abia <\/a>State government has berated the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, for comparing Governor Alex <\/a>Otti\u2019s performance with his two former predecessors \u2013 Theodore Orji and Okezie Ikpeazu.<\/p>\n The government also said that total allocation that accrued to both Abia <\/a>State and the 17 LGAs of the state was N125 billion, not N304 billion.<\/p>\n Deputy Speaker Kalu had on Sunday alleged that FAAC allocations coming to Abia <\/a>has increased to between N38 billion and N40 billion per month when compered to about N4 billion that were received by the two previous Abia <\/a>administrations that came before Governor Otti.<\/p>\n However, the Special Adviser to Governor Otti on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma said that the Deputy Speaker did not know much about economic and financial matters, arguing that the rise in cost of project execution under Otti was influenced by exchange rate difference as materials were bought with foreign currency.<\/p>\n \u201cAbia\u2019s 2025 Year to date FAAC allocation (8 months) including LGA, stands at 125 Billion Naira. Meanwhile, if we were to go by Kalu\u2019s false claim of monthly sum of N38billion, it would have stood at N304billion,\u201d Ekeoma said.<\/p>\n