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obinalihe: Aba on Gov. T.A Orji’s mind...
Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has a dream. He has a dream that one day Aba, the great Enyimba City, the Japan of Africa, would take its pride of place among the great industrialised cities of the world. Like Joseph of old, I can interpret the dream of the king. And today, Orji has stepped into Aba in a grand style, to stamp his feet and to leave his footprint in the sands of time.

A fortnight ago, he flagged off the construction of 16 new roads in the city. This is a fulfilment of his promise to launch a massive infrastructural renewal of the city immediately after the rain. The governor recognises the crucial place of Aba in the economy of the state. He recognises the rare creative talent which germinates in Aba. He recognises that no exploration on the history of the great entrepreneurs of the world can be complete without the mention of the giant minds of Aba. And true to his promise, he has re-entered Aba with a Midas touch and his dream is to leave a legacy.
Perhaps Orji, being a literary scholar, must have stumbled on Longman’s immortal lines: “The heights by great men all remind us, we must make our lives sublime and, in parting, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.” He has an inspiring predilection for footprints – legacies, both tangible and intangible, the indelible memories that transcend life and time. This can be accentuated by the new four-storey secretariat complex, the ultra-modern conference hall, the new Government House complex, and a host of other projects in the state. He has a passion for monuments and for the good that is not interred with our bones. In Abia, the story is about the legacy projects and the current dream is to make Aba a living legacy.

Aba has been the centre of criticism against the Ochendo government. But the critics did not seem to understand the history of the cumulative decay of the city which started with the previous administrations of the state. They did not also factor the fact that Orji has only a paltry N3.5 billion monthly federal allocation to cater for the entire state. But today, Orji has marched into Aba to match action with words and his vision is to create an enabling environment for the reemergence of the small and medium scale enterprises and for the growth of the informal sector in Aba. He wants to restore the lost glory of Aba.
Indeed, Aba is rich in history. The city is key not only to the Igbos but to the entire people of Nigeria and Africa. Apart from its political history with the Aba Women Riot of 1929, there is a rare ingenuity and dexterity for creativity and innovation which germinate in Aba. In little corners of the ancient city, little men of giant minds replicate the kind of creative imagination for which the three Japanese cities of Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka are known. Today, the new political will of Ochendo is to rebuild and transform the city, and the determination to re-invent the Japan of Africa.
Aba is also the commercial hub of Abia State and the business epicentre of the South-East. A greater percentage of the state’s internally-generated revenue (IGR) comes from Aba. It is a city of commerce and enterprise and a place where men sit back in their backyards and try to design, create or develop a product. By the time Aba was in its glory, it was a great centre of business. People came in hordes from all areas of the West African sub-region to buy the Aba-made goods. The city made a great contribution to the Nigerian economy, contributing both to the industrial growth and tourism.

Besides the people’s creativity, Aba also played host as zonal headquarters of many multi-nationals. During the civil war, the area sustained the secessionist Biafra in the area of local food production. But suddenly, Aba fell from the pinnacle of its glory to the backwaters. Without any measure of control, the once beautiful city built by the colonial government became a mad house. The situation was worsened by the menace of flood and filth. Makeshift kiosks sprung up everywhere and people built on top of drainages. Without an enabling environment, the small and medium scale enterprises began to die. The final death knell was the spate of insecurity witnessed in the area in recent times.
Aba also has a recent history of insecurity that came to its peak with the crime of kidnapping. Realising that law and order are the conditions for all other socio-economic activities of man, the governor waged a war against insecurity by confronting and combating the menace of kidnapping and other violent crimes that gripped the area. In collaboration with the Federal Government on a three-pronged strategy that involved the Army leading an expedition in Abia, Orji stabilised the state and ensured that peace returned to the once volatile areas. He has continued to sustain this atmosphere by retaining the services of the Army in the area.
With security in place, the governor has gone ahead to woo foreign investors to the state. All the companies that once relocated from the city have returned to Aba. The strategy is to revamp the industrial base that existed in the area. This would assist in creating job opportunities for the teeming youths and boost the governor’s youth empowerment programme.

There is a new picture of Aba, a mental prototype of what Aba should be, in the mind of Ochendo. Thank God, he is today in Aba with full force working towards the actualisation of the Aba of our dreams. The transformation is starting with the construction of 16 roads. The caterpillars are at work. Through Azikiwe, Asa road, Brass, etc, it is a new face for a once fallen city. By the time Ochendo is done, Aba residents will sing a new song. The critics will swallow their words. They will sing eulogies to a man whose entire trajectory in power has been a rescue mission for the people of God’s Own State.
http://southeastnewsonline..com/2012/12/aba-on-gov-ta-orjis-mind.html

Propaganda machine at its best....

Cut the crap. No matter how much of an alpha male a guy tries to play at. If the girls he likes don't like him, then he is dog shit. He won't even get to first base. Guys should learn to be themselves, and not try to portray the imaginations of one bitter writer that had a bad row with his girlfriend and suddenly saw the light of his ignorances and then became even more myopic that he previously was, looking for alpha males or females in an open book of his mind.
I believe, if someone is a nice guy, pls remain one. Learn the lessons of life that way, if it comes hard, then so be it, if it comes easy, then fine. There is no lesson one can learn, in a write-up or in the pages of a magazine, its all........bullshit. The best teacher, is life experiences and one never forgets such a lesson.
So guys, forget this alpha male bullshit,....I know, I thought I was once one but had change my ideologies after life lessons taught me better.

[quote author= : 7:41am]I think things have changed. Too much time has past and too many others have looted a stockpile or wealth strong enough to challenge him. I dont think he hold the power he used to and that's why PDP is falling apart. Too many Generals rising.[/quote]That is it. A typical case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. PDP is a divided house with many generals. It will definitely fall, the issue is when and on whose head. U all know, the bigger they get, the harder they fall...

gboss4sure: Thiefs. Dem don share the money come here to the make noise

Thought the money missing doesn't have serial numbers. How would they then spend it...

He obviously 4got his medications

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Wonderful news, so it means Ngozi stepped on toes bigger than her own. How many other governors are in the know-how. But would this teach her a lesson in the future to thread carefully? Men, Nigeria is really a very stupid country..

At least the man's true colours are gradually being seen by others apart from Nigerians.

U mean just 11 million voted. How much population does Ghana have?

dayokanu: Maybe the same reason why a particular ethnic group like selling suya, Doing bureau the change business etc

And why another section likes selling spare parts, second hand clothes and pushing drugs to Asia

U have time....

alj harem: I guessed you have not met Hausas before. Yes some are bad ( I had a bad experience once) but just like other groups we have good ones and bad ones. In fact the only reason why yorubas and Igbos fight on nairaland is because YORUBAS WOULD NOT QUIET DOWN and let Igbos rubbish other Nigerians especially us Yorubas.

If you would like to be rubbished and treated like second class citizen in your area because of the mouth making lies these so called Igbo intellectuals are feeding you then fine. Good luck but not me and my people.

There is no sphere of life yoruba, hausa and igbo are better than each other. We just allow propaganda to be fed to us

I always take interest in reading ur posts cos I like how u talk but u failed it this time and I won't hesitate to tell u. Igbos don't care about rubbishing yorubas or anyother ethnic group in Nigeria, at least not the igbos of our generation. What our founding fathers did, should and must not be carried on by the sons cos our fathers made remarkable mistake that we can evidently see today. I enjoyed reading Achebe's epistle but cried cos to me it signified the death of a giant. As much as I respect the man, I don't have to follow his thinkings irrationally like fela would say "Zombie". I just believe we need icons like Achebe to tell us the bitter truth about how things were so we the children can work to make sure things are better for our own children and won't be a repetition of history.

drnoel

But what kind of report is this. Did the governor not have a deputy? How does this even concern us...

papadenzel: D very funny thing about this government that does not give a damn is that it was very quick to show Barth Nnaji the way out. A minister that even a blind man could testify was making steady progress. GEJ is definitely destroying our country for us.

On the contrary. Bart honourably showed himself out, as should be the case. There is no honour in staying on sit, when there is evidence u stole. It is only in Nigeria that the reverse is the case

That is one of the adverts they wanted to spend some billion naira on..

For all the good this epistle will do...

afam4eva: Great development.

Listen to u screaming great but the write-up didn't say what the projects are. Till we know what they want to do, we will see...

Stupid topic

Rubbish

[quote author=Wily¬Wily]This man dey joke, 99.99% of Yorubas are Crooks

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[/quote]now the cancelled part we don't really need

A drunken post by a drunken Igbo man on such a wintery day like this...

etimek: Drnoel, taharqa, , we know that you people on her payroll must rise to defend her even with your last blood. PA's

If there is nothing else that surprises one, its is the method with which people try to insult u on NL. Look, I don't have respect for that lassy and I usually don't work for people I don't respect.

maryjames9: Ok. Even if your romour was correct, what has Pindinpin been able to achieve in that state? NADA!!

We really should stop sentiments cos its won't lead us anywhere as a people. If kwara has the largest deposits why shouldn't they have a mining firm located there?

With all due respect to the OP,.....this is bullshit. That said document that no one has seen. Though I have heard it mentioned repeatedly in many history articles of that time that I have had the opportunity to come across. Well the premise of the poster is that the said document is still binding on the country and its people, which is not. If he read his history books well, the said document, if it exists was drafted heartlessly and hurriedly by the drafters with no consideration for the people to be crucified for the said trial 100 years. If that being the case, how would such a document hold power over the actual situation of things. The OP's premise depends also on the British pulling the strings in Nigeria which they have not being doing 4 yeras now. If the country decides to divide, they would do so on their own so they don't need approval from their old collonial master, who has for years raped Nigeria over and over and are still trying to rape its people.

Bullshit... 80% of the 1000s of people killed by those babarians are Southerners son tell me how the north won't recover. They kill other peoples children and relatives.

Wait if its only Ogun they r talking of, what of kwara. I recently saw a foreign documentary done with a Nigerian team of meteorologists that says kwara has the second largest iron ore deposits in Africa.

Fine, goodluck to him as he losses the race again. This is someone that was buying privatized companies under his watch. Does he think Nigerians are fools. Who knows, maybe he wants to buy the whole country this time, which won't work.

OK now I understand...but debate in Nigeria has almost Neva yielded anything

Abagworo: I seem to disagree with Rochas on this one. It is one of the dangers of populist government. These contractors could be made enemies of the people by this publications. I don't know if there's any law against this act. I can just call the contractor handling my village roads and threaten him.

Ma guy that is the reason for releasing their names and fone number. So that they would never feel safe anymore. It is high time they know that once u eat a big fish, u could get shoked on its bones. D ones doing my village road would definitely be put under stress if they don't deliver...