Nigeria, March 20 -- A former governor of Abia State, Okezie Ikpeazu, has reacted to the recent passage of a bill by the Abia House of Assembly stopping the payment of pensions to former governors and their deputies in the state.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the assembly passed the bill on Tuesday after its first and second reading, consideration at the committee of the whole and its third reading during the day's plenary.

The bill, sponsored by Uchenna Okoro, the majority leader and member representing Arochukwu State Constituency, seeks to repeal the existing 2001 Law under which former governors and deputy governors in the state were paid some money as pension.

The Speaker of the House, Emmanuel Emeruwa, said the bill would be referr...