If the Igbo race is cursed with the horror of bad political
leadership, Abia state is afflicted with a double portion of
this curse. The state, christened God’s own state has as a
matter of fact known no real leadership. She has in the
last fifteen years and counting been saddled with men
who have no business being in leadership positions. We
have been led by touts, morons and men whose only
concern and motivation are their pockets- as deep and
bottomless as they are. Remember I earlier pointed out
that it is an affliction no state in the east has managed to
stay immune from in the last fifteen years. Here is a
troubling sample:
After four years of horror and shame under Mr
Chinweoke Mbadinuju, Anambra breathed a sigh of relief
with the false governor that was Chris Ngige and then
came the pathfinder and leader of leaders, Mr Peter Obi.
Anambra has never had it better in the last twelve-
thirteen years. Their roads are among the best in the
country, I travel from my maternal home in Owerre
Ezukalla to Awka the state capital frequently. In this over
a hundred kilometre road, you will not run into a bad
spot once. The roads are as good as Abuja roads, only
not as broad. Anambra schools boasts of quality
infrastructure and hardly do you hear the teachers
complain of being owed months of salary arrears. The
state capital is certainly not as neat as Abuja Central
district but it is infinitely neater than Aba. Now don’t get
me wrong, Anambra still has a very long way to go, there
is the problem of urban planning to address in Onitsha
and Awka, housing is still a key concern in these urban
centres and there is the general problem of
unemployment and higher environmental standards to
adopt. But since the calamity that was the reign of Mr
Mbadinuju, things have steadily looked up for the state
and her people.
Imo, after eight slow and sluggish reign of Mr Achike
Udenwa had Mr Ikedi Ohakim who spent his time
flogging a Catholic priest and abusing those who disagree
with him. Mr Ohakim revelled in self-administered
praises and shot himself in the foot when he tried to
manipulate the highly sophisticated crowd of Imo voters.
They booed him out and threw Rochas Okorocha into
the fray. I am not one of those who hold such a very high
view of Mr Okorocha but fairness mandates me to say
that he has not been a bad governor- at least by our
standard here. He has kept his promise of free and
compulsory education, regular payment of salaries and
allowances and remarkably given that state capital
Owerri a facelift. He may be guilty of talking too much, of
seeking to be too-involved in petty issues but weighed
side by side against the other governors, at least Udenwa
and Ohakim, Rochas has been a great improvement on
what used to be.
Enugu tops the chart when you talk of recovering from
what I call the years of locusts. Chimaroke Nnamani,
Ebeano, reduced the state to the very low standard of his
morals. He was everything a governor should not be.
Vindictive, tyrannical and tragically greedy. He built more
roads, schools, hospitals and other public infrastructures
on the pages of newspapers and on NTA news hour than
the average Enugu resident ever saw in his
neighbourhood. He was a massive calamity.
But luckily for Ndi Enugu, Sullivan Chime came on board
and set out to work immediately. Today, even his greatest
critic will not deny that Enugu, the metropolis at least has
better road network, the city looks more modern and
there is a certain measure of peace and harmony in the
city. Investors are coming in and the way of life appears
more sophisticated that what the case was eight years
ago. There has been no tragedy at Adoration Ground yet
and there has not been reports of thugs harassing and
maiming those who say “ we nogo gree.” Sullivan has been
a significant improvement on the disaster of the
Chimaroke years. Though, Enugu still has plenty of works
to do in terms of bringing the rural folks into the order of
things. Roads in several rural areas are bad and the
people living outside Enugu urban are yet to feel the
impact of the Sullivan magic beyond what they see on TV
and read on the papers. Then the ever present issue of
political intolerance.
But Abia, my beloved Abia has trudged from one
calamitous reign to the worst form of cursed leadership
any society could have been saddled with. Mr Orji Uzor
Kalu who ruled the state between 1999 and 2007 was by
all measure of assessment a horrible administrator and
leader. Kalu instituted mediocrity in Abia state. He made
sycophancy and plain idiocy ways of life. He reduced
sane men to beggars of bread. He did worse. He
introduced occultism as a ladder of social and political
ascension in the state. Under Kalu regime, we had a novel
form of governance called mamacracy. Kalu allowed his
mum control the levers of power in the state. The
woman, Eunice Uzor Kalu it was who said what gets done
and what is abandoned. I heard at a point that the
admission list into faculties and departments in Abia state
university Uturu and Abia Polytechnic Aba were
processed right in her 29 Nweke Street residence in Aba
or in her Igbere mansion. To become anything within the
state’s political structure, one at the time was required to
go to her house and gbachala egwusi. (Peeling of melon).
Whatever that meant. Under Kalu and mother, Abia
become the kingdom of mediocrity and occultic
practices. According to those who should know,
everyone who wanted any kind of political position in the
state- from councillorship to commissionership position
was led through several rounds of initiation rites at
shrines in Igbere, Okija and who-knows-where-else.
Absolute loyalty to the Kalu kingdom was a necessary
condition for making progress within the state’s
hierarchy. Under his reign, sorry, their reign, nothing of
note happened in Abia. His last act of wickedness was to
impose the worst man in the whole of Abia to lead the
state he left in a comatose shape.
Nothing but sheer wickedness prompted Kalu to choose
Theodore Orji and anoint him his successor even while
the man languished in Kirikiri for acts of felony and
greed.
The result today is that while Anambra’s years of locust
lasted for four years, Enugu eight, Imo twelve, Abia’s
years of locust has stretched for an interminable fifteen
years. Nothing in the horizon suggests that it would end
in the sixteenth year when Mr Theodore Orji’s horror will
run its course.
Conclusion: The Igbo race does not suffer because of
the many conspiracies hatched in Abuja or Lagos in the
past. Our problems - youth unemployment, poor
infrastructure and horrible living conditions persist
because the Igbo race has had the misfortune of being
cursed with such horrible politicians as Theodore Orji,
Orji Uzor Kalu, Chinweoke Mbadinuju, Ikedi Ohakim,
Chimaroke Nnamani, Achike Udenwa, Sam Egwu and the
commissioners and coterie of mischievous court jesters
they brought into government.

Hmmmmmm this is deep, unbiased pointblank truth. God bless this writer. His thinking is a deviation of the normal 'give us biafra masturrbators'.
@ op, source? Do well to reference this piece by acknowledging its writer & source.

May Igbos never be "blessed" by "good" leaders like Aregbesola in Jesus name amen

Op see what "bad leadership" is doing o. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/anambra-attracts-2-4bn-in-16-months-targets-n3bn-igr/217661/

We need more like this not your type

@OP. you are silly.. 60% of Corrupt governors are from south west.. Abia State is Better than Oyo, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun.. FACT!

princdebola201:
If the Igbo race is cursed with the horror of bad political
leadership, Abia state is afflicted with a double portion of
this curse. The state, christened God’s own state has as a
matter of fact known no real leadership. She has in the
last fifteen years and counting been saddled with men
who have no business being in leadership positions. We
have been led by touts, morons and men whose only
concern and motivation are their pockets- as deep and
bottomless as they are. Remember I earlier pointed out
that it is an affliction no state in the east has managed to
stay immune from in the last fifteen years. Here is a
troubling sample:
After four years of horror and shame under Mr
Chinweoke Mbadinuju, Anambra breathed a sigh of relief
with the false governor that was Chris Ngige and then
came the pathfinder and leader of leaders, Mr Peter Obi.
Anambra has never had it better in the last twelve-
thirteen years. Their roads are among the best in the
country, I travel from my maternal home in Owerre
Ezukalla to Awka the state capital frequently. In this over
a hundred kilometre road, you will not run into a bad
spot once. The roads are as good as Abuja roads, only
not as broad. Anambra schools boasts of quality
infrastructure and hardly do you hear the teachers
complain of being owed months of salary arrears. The
state capital is certainly not as neat as Abuja Central
district but it is infinitely neater than Aba. Now don’t get
me wrong, Anambra still has a very long way to go, there
is the problem of urban planning to address in Onitsha
and Awka, housing is still a key concern in these urban
centres and there is the general problem of
unemployment and higher environmental standards to
adopt. But since the calamity that was the reign of Mr
Mbadinuju, things have steadily looked up for the state
and her people.
Imo, after eight slow and sluggish reign of Mr Achike
Udenwa had Mr Ikedi Ohakim who spent his time
flogging a Catholic priest and abusing those who disagree
with him. Mr Ohakim revelled in self-administered
praises and shot himself in the foot when he tried to
manipulate the highly sophisticated crowd of Imo voters.
They booed him out and threw Rochas Okorocha into
the fray. I am not one of those who hold such a very high
view of Mr Okorocha but fairness mandates me to say
that he has not been a bad governor- at least by our
standard here. He has kept his promise of free and
compulsory education, regular payment of salaries and
allowances and remarkably given that state capital
Owerri a facelift. He may be guilty of talking too much, of
seeking to be too-involved in petty issues but weighed
side by side against the other governors, at least Udenwa
and Ohakim, Rochas has been a great improvement on
what used to be.
Enugu tops the chart when you talk of recovering from
what I call the years of locusts. Chimaroke Nnamani,
Ebeano, reduced the state to the very low standard of his
morals. He was everything a governor should not be.
Vindictive, tyrannical and tragically greedy. He built more
roads, schools, hospitals and other public infrastructures
on the pages of newspapers and on NTA news hour than
the average Enugu resident ever saw in his
neighbourhood. He was a massive calamity.
But luckily for Ndi Enugu, Sullivan Chime came on board
and set out to work immediately. Today, even his greatest
critic will not deny that Enugu, the metropolis at least has
better road network, the city looks more modern and
there is a certain measure of peace and harmony in the
city. Investors are coming in and the way of life appears
more sophisticated that what the case was eight years
ago. There has been no tragedy at Adoration Ground yet
and there has not been reports of thugs harassing and
maiming those who say “ we nogo gree.” Sullivan has been
a significant improvement on the disaster of the
Chimaroke years. Though, Enugu still has plenty of works
to do in terms of bringing the rural folks into the order of
things. Roads in several rural areas are bad and the
people living outside Enugu urban are yet to feel the
impact of the Sullivan magic beyond what they see on TV
and read on the papers. Then the ever present issue of
political intolerance.
But Abia, my beloved Abia has trudged from one
calamitous reign to the worst form of cursed leadership
any society could have been saddled with. Mr Orji Uzor
Kalu who ruled the state between 1999 and 2007 was by
all measure of assessment a horrible administrator and
leader. Kalu instituted mediocrity in Abia state. He made
sycophancy and plain idiocy ways of life. He reduced
sane men to beggars of bread. He did worse. He
introduced occultism as a ladder of social and political
ascension in the state. Under Kalu regime, we had a novel
form of governance called mamacracy. Kalu allowed his
mum control the levers of power in the state. The
woman, Eunice Uzor Kalu it was who said what gets done
and what is abandoned. I heard at a point that the
admission list into faculties and departments in Abia state
university Uturu and Abia Polytechnic Aba were
processed right in her 29 Nweke Street residence in Aba
or in her Igbere mansion. To become anything within the
state’s political structure, one at the time was required to
go to her house and gbachala egwusi. (Peeling of melon).
Whatever that meant. Under Kalu and mother, Abia
become the kingdom of mediocrity and occultic
practices. According to those who should know,
everyone who wanted any kind of political position in the
state- from councillorship to commissionership position
was led through several rounds of initiation rites at
shrines in Igbere, Okija and who-knows-where-else.
Absolute loyalty to the Kalu kingdom was a necessary
condition for making progress within the state’s
hierarchy. Under his reign, sorry, their reign, nothing of
note happened in Abia. His last act of wickedness was to
impose the worst man in the whole of Abia to lead the
state he left in a comatose shape.
Nothing but sheer wickedness prompted Kalu to choose
Theodore Orji and anoint him his successor even while
the man languished in Kirikiri for acts of felony and
greed.
The result today is that while Anambra’s years of locust
lasted for four years, Enugu eight, Imo twelve, Abia’s
years of locust has stretched for an interminable fifteen
years. Nothing in the horizon suggests that it would end
in the sixteenth year when Mr Theodore Orji’s horror will
run its course.
Conclusion: The Igbo race does not suffer because of
the many conspiracies hatched in Abuja or Lagos in the
past. Our problems - youth unemployment, poor
infrastructure and horrible living conditions persist
because the Igbo race has had the misfortune of being
cursed with such horrible politicians as Theodore Orji,
Orji Uzor Kalu, Chinweoke Mbadinuju, Ikedi Ohakim,
Chimaroke Nnamani, Achike Udenwa, Sam Egwu and the
commissioners and coterie of mischievous court jesters
they brought into government.

when I tell people that igbo are the most critics of their governor they will be talking rubbish. they should show me where they write anything against their own governors..

Udmaster:
@OP. you are silly.. 60% of Corrupt governors are from south west..
Abia State is Better than Oyo, Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun.. FACT!

Where do you live? I guess you are in one enclave in Biafra.

princdebola201:
If the Igbo race is cursed with the horror of bad political
leadership, Abia state is afflicted with a double portion of
this curse. The state, christened God’s own state has as a
matter of fact known no real leadership. She has in the
last fifteen years and counting been saddled with men
who have no business being in leadership positions. We
have been led by touts, morons and men whose only
concern and motivation are their pockets- as deep and
bottomless as they are. Remember I earlier pointed out
that it is an affliction no state in the east has managed to
stay immune from in the last fifteen years. Here is a
troubling sample:
After four years of horror and shame under Mr
Chinweoke Mbadinuju, Anambra breathed a sigh of relief
with the false governor that was Chris Ngige and then
came the pathfinder and leader of leaders, Mr Peter Obi.
Anambra has never had it better in the last twelve-
thirteen years. Their roads are among the best in the
country, I travel from my maternal home in Owerre
Ezukalla to Awka the state capital frequently. In this over
a hundred kilometre road, you will not run into a bad
spot once. The roads are as good as Abuja roads, only
not as broad. Anambra schools boasts of quality
infrastructure and hardly do you hear the teachers
complain of being owed months of salary arrears. The
state capital is certainly not as neat as Abuja Central
district but it is infinitely neater than Aba. Now don’t get
me wrong, Anambra still has a very long way to go, there
is the problem of urban planning to address in Onitsha
and Awka, housing is still a key concern in these urban
centres and there is the general problem of
unemployment and higher environmental standards to
adopt. But since the calamity that was the reign of Mr
Mbadinuju, things have steadily looked up for the state
and her people.
Imo, after eight slow and sluggish reign of Mr Achike
Udenwa had Mr Ikedi Ohakim who spent his time
flogging a Catholic priest and abusing those who disagree
with him. Mr Ohakim revelled in self-administered
praises and shot himself in the foot when he tried to
manipulate the highly sophisticated crowd of Imo voters.
They booed him out and threw Rochas Okorocha into
the fray. I am not one of those who hold such a very high
view of Mr Okorocha but fairness mandates me to say
that he has not been a bad governor- at least by our
standard here. He has kept his promise of free and
compulsory education, regular payment of salaries and
allowances and remarkably given that state capital
Owerri a facelift. He may be guilty of talking too much, of
seeking to be too-involved in petty issues but weighed
side by side against the other governors, at least Udenwa
and Ohakim, Rochas has been a great improvement on
what used to be.
Enugu tops the chart when you talk of recovering from
what I call the years of locusts. Chimaroke Nnamani,
Ebeano, reduced the state to the very low standard of his
morals. He was everything a governor should not be.
Vindictive, tyrannical and tragically greedy. He built more
roads, schools, hospitals and other public infrastructures
on the pages of newspapers and on NTA news hour than
the average Enugu resident ever saw in his
neighbourhood. He was a massive calamity.
But luckily for Ndi Enugu, Sullivan Chime came on board
and set out to work immediately. Today, even his greatest
critic will not deny that Enugu, the metropolis at least has
better road network, the city looks more modern and
there is a certain measure of peace and harmony in the
city. Investors are coming in and the way of life appears
more sophisticated that what the case was eight years
ago. There has been no tragedy at Adoration Ground yet
and there has not been reports of thugs harassing and
maiming those who say “ we nogo gree.” Sullivan has been
a significant improvement on the disaster of the
Chimaroke years. Though, Enugu still has plenty of works
to do in terms of bringing the rural folks into the order of
things. Roads in several rural areas are bad and the
people living outside Enugu urban are yet to feel the
impact of the Sullivan magic beyond what they see on TV
and read on the papers. Then the ever present issue of
political intolerance.
But Abia, my beloved Abia has trudged from one
calamitous reign to the worst form of cursed leadership
any society could have been saddled with. Mr Orji Uzor
Kalu who ruled the state between 1999 and 2007 was by
all measure of assessment a horrible administrator and
leader. Kalu instituted mediocrity in Abia state. He made
sycophancy and plain idiocy ways of life. He reduced
sane men to beggars of bread. He did worse. He
introduced occultism as a ladder of social and political
ascension in the state. Under Kalu regime, we had a novel
form of governance called mamacracy. Kalu allowed his
mum control the levers of power in the state. The
woman, Eunice Uzor Kalu it was who said what gets done
and what is abandoned. I heard at a point that the
admission list into faculties and departments in Abia state
university Uturu and Abia Polytechnic Aba were
processed right in her 29 Nweke Street residence in Aba
or in her Igbere mansion. To become anything within the
state’s political structure, one at the time was required to
go to her house and gbachala egwusi. (Peeling of melon).
Whatever that meant. Under Kalu and mother, Abia
become the kingdom of mediocrity and occultic
practices. According to those who should know,
everyone who wanted any kind of political position in the
state- from councillorship to commissionership position
was led through several rounds of initiation rites at
shrines in Igbere, Okija and who-knows-where-else.
Absolute loyalty to the Kalu kingdom was a necessary
condition for making progress within the state’s
hierarchy. Under his reign, sorry, their reign, nothing of
note happened in Abia. His last act of wickedness was to
impose the worst man in the whole of Abia to lead the
state he left in a comatose shape.
Nothing but sheer wickedness prompted Kalu to choose
Theodore Orji and anoint him his successor even while
the man languished in Kirikiri for acts of felony and
greed.
The result today is that while Anambra’s years of locust
lasted for four years, Enugu eight, Imo twelve, Abia’s
years of locust has stretched for an interminable fifteen
years. Nothing in the horizon suggests that it would end
in the sixteenth year when Mr Theodore Orji’s horror will
run its course.
Conclusion: The Igbo race does not suffer because of
the many conspiracies hatched in Abuja or Lagos in the
past. Our problems - youth unemployment, poor
infrastructure and horrible living conditions persist
because the Igbo race has had the misfortune of being
cursed with such horrible politicians as Theodore Orji,
Orji Uzor Kalu, Chinweoke Mbadinuju, Ikedi Ohakim,
Chimaroke Nnamani, Achike Udenwa, Sam Egwu and the
commissioners and coterie of mischievous court jesters
they brought into government.

Just to point out how bad the situation truly is, while this write-up talks about the good and the bad leaders in the south-eastern states, a particular state was totally forgotten - EBONYI.

I really feel sorry for the people of Ebonyi.

obailala:

Just to point out how bad the situation truly is, while this write-up talks about the good and the bad leaders in the south-eastern states, a particular state was totally forgotten - EBONYI.

I really feel sorry for the people of Ebonyi.

maybe because the author did not visit there..he seem to only talk about places he visited tgen

asha80:
maybe because the author did not visit there..he seem to only talk about places he visited tgen

Truth is, I don't need to visit all the states to know what happens there. If something worthwhile was being done in Ebonyi, the news would filter out. I even hear more news about development from Kebi or Gombe than from Ebonyi. Since 1999, the state has always been cursed with ghost governors.

obailala:
Truth is, I don't need to visit all the states to know what happens there. If something worthwhile was being done in Ebonyi, the news would filter out. I even hear more news about development from Kebi or Gombe than from Ebonyi. Since 1999, the state has always been cursed with ghost governors.

if I am to use my visit to abakiliki late last yr to judge I will say ebonyi has a presence of a gov more than abia but abia will always be in the news more than ebonyi