The claim was made on Saturday while Ferdinand Ekeoma, Otti's special adviser on media and publicity, was responding to a recent statement made by the Aba Diocese of the Anglican Church at the third session of its 17th Synod.
The Otti administration's recent firing of Okezie Ikpeazu's government servants was denounced by the Aba Anglican Diocese in a communiqué.
Even though it criticized their 'last-minute' hiring by the previous government, the statement, which was signed by the Rt. Rev. Christian Ugwuzo, Bishop of Aba Diocese, and Venerable Innocent Ogbonna, the Clerical Synod Secretary, sought the recall of the fired employees.
The communiqué also requested the state government to declare a state of emergency on some dangerous roads in Aba, including the Port Harcourt, Ohanku, and Obohia roads.
However, in response to the communiqué, Otti's media advisor, Ekeoma, claimed that parts of the passages were meant to deceive the public.
He claimed that one of the communique's signatories had a personal grudge against Otti for not omitting the priest's daughter from the list of recently fired civil servants, adding that the priest had previously brought two other proposals to the governor who had all been rejected.
The statement included the following passages: "The stated signatory had submitted a request to the Governor to exclude and enable his daughter, who was a beneficiary of the March 2023 false employment carried out by the previous government, after it had lost the election, to continue in the civil service.
"The governor, however, declined the request on the grounds that it would be unfair to exclude or recall only one individual out of the many impacted parties.
"The same signatory had also made two other fruitless requests to the Governor, including supporting the imposition of a particular traditional ruler as Chairman of the Traditional Rulers Council and endorsing and confirming a factional Chairman of NULGE in Abia against the wishes of the majority of the union executives and members.
"These requests were rejected by the governor because they were unhealthy and self-serving.
We are surprised that the Anglican Synod disagreed with the Alex Otti-led government over its decision to invalidate that act of deceit, which was obviously a booby trap for the Otti government, after having rightly expressed their opposition to that unjustifiable last-minute employment sham. There are a lot of unsolved questions in this conflict.
Insisting that no legitimately hired person was fired by Otti, the statement went on to say that the Otti-led administration would continue to offer Abians real employment possibilities in the future after "cleaning up the state's civil service".
Ekeoma mentioned Otti's administration's friendly connection with the Anglican Church in the statement.
On Friday, the Anglican Church released a statement that caused controversy in Abia State. Some people praised the priests for the statement, while others accused them of engaging in political play.