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Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by credid(m): 12:10am On Oct 01, 2018 |
movetoca: Chukwu gozie gi na ezi na ulo gi!!! |
Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by mgbedianya(m): 12:20am On Oct 01, 2018 |
Nobody has asked who he contested with |
Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by Riunite1: 12:39am On Oct 01, 2018 |
this man has disgraced Ngwa pole this fat cow is a total disaster imaging that we cried when T.A Orji in power but he is a better man than this fat fool Ff. woman wrapper |
Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by brexit: 6:36am On Oct 01, 2018 |
People should learn to fear God,there is no development in the state after 20 years of democratic rule,Abia is God' own state |
Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by able20(m): 6:55am On Oct 01, 2018 |
arsenalLUVA:So what? since when has any governor/Senator in nigeria got elected into office Due to good performance. |
Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by Zinny25(f): 7:16am On Oct 01, 2018 |
Abians... The worst thing that can happen to us again is to vote in this man. He keeps owing civil servants, poor development, no employment. Sometimes I feel bad remembering I'm from that state all because of the dullards and selfish people who keep ruling us. Let's give another the chance Fortunes Okoronkwo from the PPC is the man come 2019 |
Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by arsenalLUVA: 7:20am On Oct 01, 2018 |
able20: Is he owing salaries? |
Re: Ikpeazu Wins PDP Governorship Primaries In Abia State by Iceathome(m): 8:17am On Oct 03, 2018 |
By Chuks Akamadu
ALEX OTTI AND HIS ONLY CRIME
In my state, Abia, every fair-minded indigene
and/or resident agrees that Dr. Alex Otti is the
best thing that has happened to “God’s Own
State” since 2014. Likewise, no one disputes
the fact that since the creation of the state in
1991, Abia has never had an aspiring governor
more prepared or as adequately equipped as Dr.
Otti.
Quite frankly, even Dr. Otti’s most virulent
detractors concede, in secret that truth be told,
the technocrat-turned-politician is a rare gift to
our dear state. As a scholar, Dr. Otti reminds
one of erudite Prof. Ali Mazrui of blessed
memory; as an economist, he could safely pass
for a hybrid of Dr. Chu Okongwu and Prof. Sam
Aluko whilst as a visionary leader, his
antecedents compellingly invite one to an
imminent replay of Dr. Michael Okpara’s
superlative era.
But there is a cabal that perceive the coming of
Dr. Otti, and rightly so, as the coming of the
judgment day. So whatever it would take to stop
the-man-whose-time-has-come from taking
over Government House, Umuahia next year, is
considered “affordable”. Bias apart, the cabal
have a point; the mean men and women who
constitute it have been part of government since
1999, in full charge of it since 2007, and all they
can boast of is a legacy of rot that had, not too
long ago, forced billionaire businessman Prince
Arthur Eze to tell the leader of the gang in public
that “Abia stinks”.
They impoverished the people and brought their
state to odium. Somehow Abia, under their
watch, was portrayed, unjustifiably, as a barren
land, her diverse economic potential made to
look like liabilities, strengths converted to
weaknesses and worse still, the state treasury
put under unending siege.
So, when Dr. Otti stepped forward to challenge
the status quo in 2014/2015, they deployed all
they could muster to truncate his aspiration,
Today, history has come full cycle and once
more, Dr. Otti has thrown his hat into the ring.
Going by the abysmal three years performance
of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu who the gang
leader foisted on Abians in 2015, the 2019
governorship race is naturally looking more like
a walk in the park for Dr. Otti, because the
reverberating verdict of the ordinary people of
Abia State is that theirs is a classic case of
“from frying pan to fire”, and they cannot
wait to have their own pound of flesh which
begins with Dr. Otti’s coronation on May 29,
2019, as Abia Chief Executive. And for the APGA
family nationwide, Abia is going to be one of
their low-hanging fruits.
So, for the political profiteers who currently run
the Abia shop, Dr. Otti must be stopped at all
cost! In the past, they operated from a certain
position of misappropriated strength having
enjoyed the “proverbial” federal might, but
the circumstances have since changed
remarkably – and dramatically, too; hence, the
desperation to shop for a bad name in order to
hang the dog.
After an excruciating yet fruitless search, they
had settled for the feeble, lazy and puerile
argument that since Abia North senatorial
district did eight years as governor, ditto Abia
Central, and that since it is “the turn” of Abia
South, Governor Ikpeazu should be allowed,
even if he is busy writing the state’s epitaph,
to complete eight years. Logic from the pit of
hell!
Okay even at that, is Dr. Otti not a full-fledged
Ngwa man – and by extension an Abia South
man? Yes, his ancestral home is Arochukwu, but
here is a man whose grandfather lived, died and
was buried in Isialangwa and his father same.
The man’s impact on Ngwaland as a private
person would any day, anytime dwarf the
combined achievements – if any – of the gang
already making bad salesmen of this wrong-
headed advocacy. Please do not forget that
Ngwa people just like their Abia brothers
elsewhere are the ones bearing the brunt of
inherited legacy of poor governance under
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu.
The tragedy of this attempt at criminalising Dr.
Otti’s ancestral roots is that the good people
of Ngwaland who are adherents of the “Onye
Aghala Nwanne ya” creed know him as their
brother, more than anything else as an
illustrious Abian and are the ones insisting that
2019 would be the turn of visionary leadership
which Dr. Otti epitomises. They are tired ofa
being passed off, falsely, as a bunch of under-
performers when they have an oven-hot cake
like Dr. Otti they can proudly offer Abia State –
for the lasting good of all.
Chuks Akamadu, (Nko Abia)
Umuahi |
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