How Much More Insults will Abia Leaders Endure from Alex Otti?

~ Ayodele Moses Orji

Alex Otti, the defeated governorship candidate of APGA at the 2015 election in Abia State, organized a rally to announce his second bid to occupy Government House, Umuahia, and Abia Stakeholders and leaders who were the same people that endorsed our charter of equity that zoned the Governorship of the state to Abia South Senatorial district and know for a fact that Otti is from Arochukwu, refused to attend his rally and because of this, he attacked them scurrilously, branding them “bloody tonic drinkers".

Hear him: “The way it works is that after receipt of Federal Allocation from Abuja, the state shares a certain percentage of the money amongst its listed elites, before providing for salaries and other government commitments. So, the blood tonic is, believe it or not, a first line charge, before any other expense is considered by the state. By sharing public money amongst them, the silence of the elites would have been bought, so that those administering the state would have a field day to do as they wished. Any wonder why, no matter how bad things become, you
will hardly hear anything from these “stakeholders” and even when you did, it would be the singing of praises of the administration or the making of excuses over why things are going bad. Sometimes, the excuses would go from blaming previous administrations to blaming the populace itself for being difficult to govern.”

According to him, the following leaders of Abia State share the state’s monthly revenue among themselves on equally a monthly basis, as “blood(y) tonic”, and as a result refused to support his aspiration to govern the state.

1. Commodore Ebitu Ukiwe, former Chief of General Staff
2. Senator Adolphus Wabara, former Senate President
3. General Ike Nwachukwu, Former Governor and former Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
4. Eze Ogo (Dr) Anagha Ezikpe, Chairman of Abia elders Council
5. Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu, former Governor and member, Supreme Military Council
6. Chief B. B. Apugo, member APC Board of Trustees
7. Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, former National Chairman of PDP
8. Prof Anya O. Anya, former Chancellor of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umuahia,m
9. Chief Theo Nkire
10. Elder Emmanuel Adaelu
11. Prof J C Ogbonna
12. Chief Onyema Ugochukwu, former Chairman of NDDC
13. Ambassador Empire Kanu
14. Ambassador Uzodinma Okpara
15. Lady Victoria Akanwa
16. Lady Adanma Okpara
17. Rev (Dr) Uma Ukpai
18. Chief Uche Akwukwuegbu
19. Chief Reagan Ufomba
20. Chief Damian Ozurumba
21. Chief Tony Ukasanya
22. Elder Chibuike Nwokeukwu

Instructively, some of these great men and women supported Otti’s ill fated desperate bid for the same office in 2015 but have since decided to back Governor Ikpeazu because of his sterling performance with very limited resources.

Early this year, when the people of Ukwa Ngwa clan gathered at Isiala Ngwa to endorse Governor Ikpeazu for second term in office, the same Alex Otti attacked them and called their leaders “marabouts and political jobbers”.

How much more insults will the people of Abia State and their leaders endure because Otti desperately desires to govern them?

Who will tell Otti that enough is enough of his political desperation?

Dr Moses Ayodele Orji
Former Director of Propaganda, Alex Otti 2015 Campaign team

You mean these men are the goats eating the yam in Abia state.I smell some atom of truth from what Mr Oti said.