It was an embarrassing day for Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state on Friday as he was booed and pelted with sachets of ‘pure water’ in Aba where he went to attend the burial of the pioneer Catholic Bishop of Aba Diocese, late Most Rev Vincent Valentine Ezeonyia, at the Cathedral of the Christ The King Church.

Saturday Sun reports that this would be the sixth time the governor would be booed in the commercial city due to his administration’s poor performance.

As soon as the gov­ernor who attended the event with his wife took his seat, hundreds of other attendees who were outside watch­ing and following the service inside the church via large screen monitors placed outside, started shouting that Orji was not needed as governor because he has “killed the state”.

Before then, the gov­ernor’s aides had hur­riedly set up the stage box from which Gov Orji was to address the people.

However, the governor could not address the people as a result of the crowd’s hostile attitude and his aides humbly folded the stage box back into the bag it was brought in.

The report adds that Gov Orji’s main ordeal began after the corpse of late Bishop Ezeonyia was interred and he (Orji) entered his vehicle.

The crowd followed the governor’s convoy booing as it made its way to­wards Asa road where another huge crowd joined in the show, jeering, booing and pelting his vehicles with bags of pure wa­ter.