Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has directed that civil servants and pensioners in Abia State must receive their salaries before political office holders are paid. This is even as he has lamented that pensioners were owed for so long by previous administrations in the state, before the backlog of the unpaid pensions were cleared by his administration. Governor Otti said this in his Easter message to Abia citizens, wondering why retired civil servants who served the state were denied their pensions for so long. He noted that paying people their pensions should not be a subject of excitement but …