ABIA CIVIL SOCIETY, GRASSROOTS & ELITES ARE YEARNING FOR DR.OKEZIE IKPEAZU’S SECOND TERM
By Chinyemike Torti

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 404 BC
“In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.”

Ever since APGA suffered a crushing 2015 defeat at the Abia governorship election, Alex Otti and his cronies, wailers and crybabies are still crestfallen, blaming, grumbling and throwing rancor, tantrums against INEC, Abia elders and pouring abuse at every imaginable externalities and nebula for their dreary outing. One Elder Dan Chinyere Imo, a side kick of Alex Otti, masquerading as a former “National President” of Ukwa/Ngwa League: writing in the March 5,2018 edition of DAILY SUN, futilely sought to besmirch the integrity and person of His Excellency,Dr Okezie Ikpeazu.
Richard Nixon, the 37th US President, had a word of caution and advice for bitter election losers like Alex, when he proffered this advice “You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.”

Alex Otti, lost the last election on account of inexcusable strategic errors, and mistakes arising primarily from his inability to appraise, decode and understand the problem of Abia and her people.First question on the lips of members of the Abia civil society, was, why should a failed banker, who under his watch, wrecked the fortunes of Diamond Bank in the rank order of Nigeria’s money market architecture, seek to sully the Abia polity with self serving,self seeking incoherent swathe of policies unrelated to the economics of the real world especially when he blustered about a bogus one billion dollar IFC/World bank loan he had pre arranged for ABA SME’s.
Many stakeholders were overtly worried of the squalid in intellect, that played out in his election manifesto. Abia elders asked pointed questions why a hitherto finance guru was muddle headed, about the basic tenets of securing loans from a financial institution.
Otti’s campaign narratives flourished with so much fallacy and overflowed with an armory of mud in a despicable and desperate bid to denigrate the impeccable credentials of Dr Okezie Ikpeazu. The politically astute Ndi Abia refused to be browbeaten by APGA’s pie in the sky.
Now that, he is on the cusp of a second shot at the gubernatorial hot seat, his tactics have not changed. His minders, have adopted the failed communication strategy, of conversational terrorism. Talking down on his supposed constituents, grumbling about elders, elites and senior citizens in a manner suggestive of emotional blackmail. But nobody is carried away with any hot air. Like his first outing, people are perceptive that a society can only build on planks of equity, social welfare and justice. The man on the street posits, and rightly so; this is not the time for butterflies to clothe themselves like eagles.
Again we shall not stop asking the poignant question, what did Alex Otti ever contribute either as a public or private citizen to enhance the economic well being of Ndi Abia? Dr Alex Otti, of APGA quest is always bereft of credibility as the masses, who will always massively vote for PDP,will never be swayed by mumbo jumbo of failed bankers which did not impact on the economic fortunes of the average ‘Aria Aria’ market trader.
The poser he has not effectively responded to ;is what was the quantum of loans, overdraft, working capital, if any; did Diamond Bank under his watch made available to Abia customers? What money market instruments, did his bank package to facilitate enterprises in the state during his tenure as Group Managing Director of DIAMOND BANK
The critical mass, elites and grassroots both at home and diaspora have seen

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