It is not difficult knowing the subject matter of Odimegwu Onwumere’s writings. His topics and subjects are easily known and therefore, very easily predictable. If you endure the grammatical and structural insults encountered going through his gibberish like I have done on many occasions, he is either, praising Orji Uzor kalu, extolling Njiko Ndi Igbo- Kalu’s pet project or heaping unwarranted insults and blackmail on Chief T.A. Orji. To some, it may be a wonder reading his numbskull in elitist newspapers like Thisday, The Guardian and Vanguard, but not to me and many discerning Abians. He badly needs credibility and so posits in credible newspapers. He is a hacker, intent on achieving maximum results with his uninspiring, jaundiced and pejorative articles. One thing is certain: The world knows Chief T.A. Orji. The world equally is aware of his efforts to rewrite the history of Abia from the negative and indolent to the present land of developmental changes.
> Many notable Nigerians ranging from ministers, legislators to the presidency, have seen and testified that all claims of good governance and provision of monumental social indicators in Abia are evident, under-reported and are existent in the maps of Abia State, consequently one thousand Odimegwus cannot obliterate or obfuscate the quantum developmental strides of T.A. Orji. One thousand Odimegwus cannot make their lies stick against glaring facts. According to an African proverb, ‘no matter how long a tree trunk remains in the River, it does not make it a fish.’
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> I urge Nigerians and others to read the unmerited claims and praises in support of Kalu. April 9th, 2013 in the Daily Independent, where Kalu was heroised for volunteering to negotiate with Boko Haram. These are few examples. The papers are awash with other supportive articles by Odimegwu on kalu’s pet project, Njiko Ndi Igbo.
> From the above, there is no doubt about whom Odimegwu is working for. If in any doubt, look at the most laughable which was his piece on kalu’s 53rd birthday where he wrote about Kalu as a man of the people, calling him the big masquerade-Thisday, April 28, 2013. On October 23rd, 2012, he disdains Igbo leaders as do nothings, uncouth and myopic- same THISDAY. If any doubts exist, it is better read than narrated. Of all virtues imaginable, he credited Kalu for his humility. From the above, Odimegwu has shown that he does not know what humility is all about. Abia people and their leaders like Gen Ike Nwachukwu, Ambassador Ojo Maduekwe and Chief Tony Ukasanya can testify to the impropriety of his hyperbole. In literary styles, irony and opposites are allowed anyway.
> In order to minimize the negative, let’s leave that to readers to judge for themselves but one thing is certain that Odimegwu is Kalu’s protege and has shamelessly done kalu’s dirty jobs.
> The article of Tuesday, June 11, page 19, is a bundle of lies, blackmail and a poor attempt to discredit Abia State, Abia people and the Abia government. Poor in the sense that the world knows the honest attempts and efforts of the incumbent Governor to substitute, reinvent and address the iniquities of past administrations. In the said article, his opening line is the worst attempt at philosophy. It is as grammatically offensive as it is devoid of logic- a potent aspect of philosophy. Sample this rigmarole: ‘some persons are so clever that they do not understand their misbehaviours. A cheap bookshop is better than the costliest ignorance. A person with intelligence through an organized religion/government has a measured intelligence. And anybody with measured intelligence is not just wittical.’ Does this make any sense?
> In paragraph two, he wrongly accused the governor of ruling from abroad and condemned an aide for granting an interview in Lagos. Any alert mind will know that Odimegwu in Igbo parlance is not only ranting but asking for palm oil to chew palm fruit. What stops an aide from granting an interview when in Lagos, Aba, Kaduna or any other part of Nigeria? After all, most of the aides live in Lagos and Abuja as their workplaces in the liaison offices.
> The case of the governor ruling from abroad is neither here nor there. His Excellency Sir T.A. Orji hardly travels without reasons and come to think of it, the governor is entitled to vacations and as a well-trained administrator, always working to improve the lot of Abia, he works during vacations with proven results. From the records, the former governor who Odimegwu roots for made not less than 63 trips while in office and it is this same governor that held the office for Kalu for eight years.
> In paragraph six, he relapses onto their old refrain of unsubstantiated claims profiling uncompleted projects. One would be forced to ask again, can Odimegwu name projects completed by his master in Aba where he lived all his live except building roads to toilets and to bushes where he intended to appropriate lands in his hometown of Igbere?
> We will be repeating ourselves if we take on the quantum and monumental projects of T.A. Orji. They are manifest in the three senatorial zones viz the roads in Aba and beyond, the agric revolution in Ukwa, Umuahia, Abam, Arochukwu, Ikwuano. The cocoa plantations and nurseries, the expanse of pilot cassava farms bear testimonies of a man who has come to re-engineer. Do we keep repeating the legacy projects some completed and others at advanced stages of completion? Think of the renovated old secretariat and the fast-paced new one spawning the most current in gadgetry. The Broadcasting Corporation of Abia’s 48 room offices is still the rave of the day in office accommodation, the High courts in Umuahia and Aba, the never-experienced but imposing international conference centre? What about the ASEPA House recently commissioned by Hon. Aminu Tambuwal? The list is endless as it will be immodest to keep refering to the Good Governance Team led by Mr Labaran Maku, Hon Minister for Information who acknowledged that Abia is underrepresented- Mohamed Garba, NUJ president. Hon. Ozo Mgbachi and his team of the House Committee on works were highly impressed with what they saw. The good Governance team couldn’t complete the project sites due to its large numbers.
> Odimegwu true to type and style sees nothing good in Abia, to him the bequest of cars and tricycles are nothing. And blindly sees no job opportunities in owning and driving cabs.
> Onwumere is a hireling of no fixed address claiming Rivers and Aba as home. We know of Kalu’s other aids like Iyk Ekoma and his special assistant on media, Emeka Obasi. We are aware of the staff in the Sun Newspapers even though they write negatively to protect their jobs, but who is Odimegwu? What is his motive? In paragraph twelve he makes reference to our people, whose people? Is Odimegwu from Abia? Where exactly? I challenge him to prove this or appear for a public debate.
> In paragraph thirteen, he dabbles into a nonexistent incident in Umuocham Girls Secondary School, Word Bank, Aba, where illegal fees were collected as he claimed. If Odimegwu knows his onions, why did he not investigate to know who collected the money? Is T A Orji the principal of this school? Is this alleged situation going on in other schools in Abia?
> Again in paragraph nine, he denounces the empowerment of youths with vehicles and in his narrow and little mind sees it as an opportunity for the governor to flaunt his Photos. What a shame? Does the governor need to buy vehicles to pest posters? The cost of two vehicles alone can pay for flex posters and bill boards in thousands of places.
> There is no place for Odimegwu in the world of fair and decent writing since he hasn’t the finesse, style or even raw skill. No wonder in his efforts at using the name of Ochendo for practicing his odious genre that is nothing but pen terrorism.
> Odimegwu is public enemy number one. His continuous demonization of His Excellency Sir, T.A. Orji indicates that he wants Abia back to desecration and plunder of the past. It means too that all that Abia has gained shouldn’t be. The earlier we put Odimegwu where he belongs, the better. According to Grosvenor, figures do not lie but liars will figure and Benjamin Franklin, American author concurs ‘it is hard for an empty bag to stand erect.’

I feel so reluctant writing rejoinders to the uninspiring, delirous and blackmailing submissions of Odimegwu Onwumere. Calling them articles will be a great misnomer as his twisted pieces will hardly measure up in any way with acceptable norms of writing. They are so much characterized with confused verbs, non existent expressions and banal logics. To reveal his debased intent, none of his claims are evident even when juxtaposed with the most minimal of scales. It is unfortunate that a journalistic goon and unrepentant school dropout will continue to insult a popularly elected, and an incumbent governor such as Sir T.A. Orji. One thing is certain; the flagrant conflagrations ignited by onwumere will one day consume him.
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> For those who do not know him and his antics, Onwumere is a proven blackmailer and vagrant of no fixed address. He claims Rivers State and at times Aba. It is on record that he was nabbed in UBA Port-Harcourt where he went to pick up a blackmail payoff unaware that his victim had alerted the security officials of the bank. According to Patrikobi an online publication, he is an ex-convict having served time for libel. Last year he was questioned for molesting minors having laid a good foundation for his criminal act as he pretended to run an N.G.O. Is such a character worth our precoius time, costly mental perspiration and prized appropriation? Check out http//­juristlaws..c om/2012/08/ ‘Odimegwu Onwumere nabbed.’
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> From his recent publication in Mordern Ghana, an online publication, he imagined and wants people to believe that Abia State Government House is no more comfortable for His Excellency Sir T.A. Orji and so he embarks on trips abroad. He cited the last Canadian trip as an example. The world knows that the trip of the Governor and entourage was a national affair involving other state Governors and presidential aides. It was titled the ‘Nigeria-Canada Investment Summit,’ so why single the governor of Abia for oprobium if odimegwu is well intended? Other trips by the Governor are known and have achieved monumental results. His Excellency was at John Hopkins University, United States of America, where he delivered a thought-provoking lecture, hinting on Governance in Nigeria while urging Nigerians in diaspora to come home, invest, contribute their quota to home growth and partner with Government in many fields. Can there be a more patriotic service to state and nation than this?
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> As an accountable personality who exercises the mandate of the people, he takes time to brief Abians of his missions whenever he comes back from journeys, and I ask: is there anything wrong with that? As stated above, these trips are followed with results. Shanid Agro International is in Ohambele Ukwa East, rehabilitating the Abia Palm Estate. Shoprite, the South African Superstore chain is in Umuahia, Abia Rubber Company in Abam Arochukwu Local Government Area, enjoys a PPP contract with a foreign firm facilitated by Abia Government. There are many verifiable examples.
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> In March 2013, Engineer Joe Etto, the president of World Igbo Congress in America, a reputable cultural group of Igbo extraction and lobby group visited Abia and publicly acknowledged in an interview in the THISDAY newspaper of April that Abia is on the right course. Daily Post online of March 25th posited same. So what else do we need? The corrugated opinions of Odimegwu, his likes and paymasters put together fall on T.A. Orji and Abians like blunt darts of serious regret.
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> Probably his delirious ear is yet to hear about the meeting of opposition parties in Abia compromising: ANPP, CPC, DPP, APGA, ACN. All respectively represented by the following- Chief Cassidy Agbai- Chairman, Kalu kalu, Ikonne Okechukwu, Chief Ozo Abata and Chief Egwunatu Egbulefu who jointly and emphatically agreed to support good governance in the South East no matter the party.
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> In one month interval, the Executive Chamber of Abia State was abuzz with quality and valuable visits from Hon Boon Intiratana, the commercial counselor of the Royal Thai Embassy in quest of Agric Tourism and agro processing. Ambassador Hoang Ngoc Ho, Vietnamese Ambassador to Nigeria talked about trade cooperation in agricultural, manufacturing, construction, pharmacy and textile. Jeffrey Hawkins, U S. consular General in Lagos with a powerful entourage numbering over five Americans with the deputy, Mrs Dehab, mooted ideas not too far from the former. Could these incorruptible officers of sworn integrity and gazetted probity have left their hallowed embassies for a jamboree in Abia?
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> Locally the Governor has been awarded pass marks from Federal Government personalities. Who did not hear of the good Governance tour that couldn’t finish visiting the projects sites because of its numerosity? The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, NUJ Chairman Mallam M. Garba, RATTAWO President, Hon Yemi Gbamgbose, Mallam Lamido Sanusi who crowned the governor as the best on youth empowerment during his Ochendo annual lecture series on APRIL 24, 2013. Are all these oracles aides of Ochendo who sing his praises?
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> Just last week, Hon. Ozo Mgbachi – the house committee chairman on works visited Abia with his committee members on their oversight functions verifying Federal Government projects especially those done by the state for which the state is owed huge amounts. After their tour they extolled the efforts of His Excellency in over all infrastructure and added a new appellation- Ochendo Global. Are these sychophants too?
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> Monday, 20TH May 2013, Alhaji Aminu Tanbuwal, speaker of the Federal House of Reps made a short visit and commissioned two completed projects, the ASEPA House which was started not too long ago and the Industrial Market at Azueke Ndume. Are these phoney people?
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> Abia has recovered from many diseases inflicted by bad leadership of the past. I may not delve into the Legacy Projects dotting the landscape of Abia like the new workers secretariat spawning the first elevator in Abia which Odimegwu knows too well but for his selfish interests of desperately blackmailing for his irregular meals has refused to acknowledge lest he annoys his paymasters. Not to worry about that, the sun is shining and the wonderful works of T.A. Orji- Ochendo are wondrous in the eyes of men and God.
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> Shame on Onwumere!
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> God bless Abia. May we have more Ochendos

over an issue in dispute.

It is put thus: “Lekwa onye ohii, lekwa ihe ozuru’’, grammatically interpreted as: “Behold the thief as well as his loot”, while in the literary term it connotes that evidence will surely mark the end of an argument or doubt over any issue. For some inexplicable reasons, many unscrupulous characters have sprouted within the past few years and assumed commentators on a catalogue of issues comprising both the serious and mundane with Abia in focus.

There has been a contraption of intellectually bankrupt pessimists who have wished that the stagnation that was Abia remained the lot of the state. Fortunately, Governor Theodore Orji, being conscious of history, has already chosen his part, while posterity will be his judge. Then their usual mantra was the swan-song of non-performance.

Notwithstanding all, Governor Orji left no one in doubt of his determination to turn around a state which administration he inherited when the state in all ramifications and rating was lying prostrate. His attempt at the inception of his government left no one in doubt that the man was in a hurry to transform his state. But little did he know that what he thought was a patriotic agenda would earn him umbrage and calculated sabotage from those who ran with the hare in the day, and at the same hunted with the hound.

However, with hindsight, the Governor had to take his political destiny into his own hands since “he that wears the shoe knows where it pinches”. Since then, Governor Orji has known no political peace as every arsenal at the disposal of his traducers have been deployed to tarnish and rubbish his efforts.

One thing though is that the Governor himself was not oblivious of the onslaught expected from these reactionary agents who would have given anything to remain as devourers of the people’s commonwealth.

It is then no surprise that for daring to leave a once prostrate state better than the comatose condition he met it, he has become the target of politically-instigated campaign of calumny. Nothing would placate the gladiators unless the treasury of the state is handed over to them. They engage the services of their Internet rats to publicly masturbate about morals and service delivery in their own understanding.

The Orji administration, within the period of its liberation from the stranglehold of now expired political buccaneers, has shown determination to turn around the fortunes of an ordinarily promising state which suffered initial still-birth owing to the incompetent political midwives. But thank God as Ochendo has been able to restore the years eaten by the locust. From education to agriculture and power. From security to health, commerce and industry, judiciary and infrastructure, the government has left its marks as depicted by the legacy projects to its credit.

Did it not take the withdrawal of the accreditation of the law programme of a neighboring state university headed by the immediate past president of ASUU for the people of Abia to appreciate that the commitment of their governor to elevate the standard of education in his state was beyond the rhetorics of a political campaign rally. If it was Abia State University that lost that accreditation,  hell would have known less fury than the government of Ochendo.

The taste of the pudding, they say, is in the eating. While others revel in dancing to the gallery, Abia operates with the Latin legal maxim: “res ipso loquitur”, meaning that the facts will always speak for themselves. And as we say in our local parlance, the self-glorifying story of “Dee John’s exploits in the war will only be believed when we see his military boots”. Apart from the tertiary institutions, there has been silent upgrade of facilities and infrastructure in the public schools in Abia courtesy of the present administration. The feats are only made known through the awards given to the state by policy makers and regulators in the sector.

Also, power has greatly improved in the entire state that residents in the state now enjoy steady electricity supply. In Abia today, people can predict the period and time of supply from energy source. The ripple effect is economically felt as small and medium scale enterprises rekindled the economy, ending crime.

Governor Orji came into office when no single industry in the state was operating. While  the privately-owned ones like International Equitable Association, Nigerian Breweries and Dubic Breweries had closed shop, government-owned industries, especially in the hospitality sector, were sold to the cronies of the then Lords of the Manor. That was how Abia Hotel Aba and Umuahia went on economic sabbatical.

That was also the case of Golden Guinea Breweries, Modern Ceramics, Ogwe Golden Chicken and Abia Rubber. Even state-owned corporations like Abia Marketing Company, Abia Newspaper Publishing Company became ghost corporations. Ochendo got some of the industries back to their tracks.

Today Dubic Breweries is back to the shelf with its products, Nigerian Breweries has returned to Abia while the reactivation of the both the Golden Chicken and Abia Rubber has long commenced.

Carry go ochendo

Am so such that the writer of this don't lived in Aba,ouk killed the state.Before Governor T. A. Orji’s emergence, the state was devastatingly torn into factions; the major gladiators being the home-based politicians and the Abuja domicilled Abia politicians. There was no love lost between the two. The result of this avoidable rancour was that the State became the
victim. But Governor T. A. Orji, being a seasoned
tecnocrat and bureaucrat, did not need to consult
any oracle to realize that such a cat and dog relationship, if not radically resolved, would
continue to constitute a clog on the wheel of the
progress of the State.

I agree because the governor has treated the state well

chiozor: @mecedonia may God treat your case and your family cases same way TA is treating Abia case

Haters of Good work, this road is not in Aba, the road that link to ariarri international market is good and accessible, what is your gain by painting the state black, the third image look @ the current road not that one u posted.

from ABA (ENYIMBA CITY): Ariaria is not Open! But d gates ar open because of wat d federal government said...dat d will shut down any Market dat close 2day...but no sales is goin on , meanwhile no one s coming to buy and most people are at home observing Biafran day. Very few cars and movement ar observed round d city...Is a Holiday n Aba!

See Aba

This is not Aba, truly I reside in Aba.
In the hearts of residents of Aba, Abia state’s commercial nerve centre and Nigeria’s burgeoning technological hub, The governor’s name will probably never get lost.
His name will remain etched on their consciousness for a long time to come. Reason? Residents of the Enyimba city, as Aba is fondly called, now believe that their darling city is not, after all, plagued by a jinx which made successive administrations in the state look the other way while it writhed in rot. In the six years of his administration, Aba has remained a top priority in governor Orji’s developmental agenda.The result is rapid transformation of the city.
First time visitors can still see fading relics of Aba’s inglorious past in terms of infrastructural decay. Roaring Caterpillars,earth mowers and other road construction equipment as well as busy workmen on a litany of roads within and around the city, tell the story of decayed roads now receiving attention. But when one moves through Danfodio road and branches off toward East branches off toward East street,Waterside,Ngwa road through Clifford road down to Ehi and Ariaria Market road by Ukwu Mango and joins Tenant and Hospital roads, a renewed Aba boldly stares one in the face.
The roads bear a huge testmony to Governor Orji’s aggressive urban renewal in Aba. If the former governor of the old Imo State which comprised the present day Abia State, the late Sam Mbakwe is to come from the dead and visits Aba today, he will certainly be sad to learn that Milverton and Azikiwe roads which he did .Before now, the roads were impassable.
Milverton road stands at the centre of the city so that it is often the first contact any body entering Aba makes. Azikiwe road on its part is the largest two-lane road in the city.
Driving through Ogu road, Eze Ugwuzo road, Uga Street, Nnakwu Street, Okpulo Street and Enuka Street, all within the Aba metropolis, one is not left in doubt that a recent rehabilitation breathed life back to them. A resident explained that the streets and roads were huge gullies and potholes before now, making vehicular movement a nightmarish venture.
The completion of Faulks road, Umuoba road, Brass road, Cementary road, Ogbor Hill, via the junction to the bridge, Asa road among others within the city, now ensures smooth drive within Aba.It now makes motorists spend less man-hours on the roads. Heavy construction equipment on Port-Harcourt road tells the story of a road set to receive the Theodore Orji treatment. Drainage system was almost non-existent in the city. Virtually all Aba drainages were blocked, in addition to some people erecting structures on designated drainage channels. But Mgbeahuru says all the big drainages in the city have been opened up by the Orji administration.
And to bring environmental sanity to Aba, the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency, (ASEPA), within the last three years embarked on the gathering and evacuation of refuse in the city. The agency’s containerised refuse bins are common sight in strategic locations in Aba. And the good news is that residents are indeed keeping the city clean by disposing their refuse in the bins.
Waving a 2002 picture of Aba,Information Minister,Labaran Maku,during the Good Governance Team's tour of the state was not sure whether he was in Abuja or in Aba.This was because what he knew of the city, a decade ago, was radically different from the spectacle of well paved roads and streets that confronted him.Thus, he turned to Mgbeahuru and asked to know where he (Maku) was.” Am I in Aba or in Abuja,” he asked the Commissioner.” You are in Aba, Sir”
About three years ago, insecurity occasioned by kidnapping and violent armed robbery masterminded by the slained kidnap kingpin, Obioma Nwankwo aka Osisikankwu, held Aba by the jugular.But the governor rose to the occasion by ensuring that security agencies in the State got adequate crime-fighting logistics to combat the menace.The result was the killing of the dangerous hudlum by soldiers deployed to the state.
That Aba is today secured is a feat daily celebrated by residents of the Enyimba city.
Massive renovation of class room blocks in the city and the intense infrastructural development going on in the city’s only Polytechnic, Abia State Polytechnic has further given the city a facelift.
There is, however, an interesting dimension to Governor Orji’s unprecedented transformation of Aba.While some of his critics accuse him of abandoning the city, others lament that he is focusing development there to the detriment of other towns in the state. Aba was not working until Orji became governor. “During the the time of Orji Uzor Kalu,nothing was happening. Those days he was governor,nothing was happening. Do you know that during Orji Uzor Kalu’s time,Aba was impassable, but today, anywhere you are going in Aba, you have the way to go”
SO THAT PIX IS NOT ABA

Outdated, u are posting nonsense. Where in Abia state is this road located. Pls do visit this site 4 update.www.abiastate.gov.ng/

The governor has done so much in the state, the people of Abia are happy 4 his administration.

Faulks road by eze nwagabara street by is Is accessible and the road also link to ukwu mango, so that pictures was snapped when the road has not been reconstructed

How is he worst performing, see mr Abia voice I don't even think that u reside in Abia, ur people Abia awakening stays in lagos and be posting fake pictures about Abia that is equally with u are doing, I know where u live in Lagos state, go come back home and see 4 ur self.

Abia 4 change: Who are u people trying to deceive, T a orji is worst performing governor in this mid term, check the score card of other governors

Can u people tell me the achievement of the past administration in Abia state. What a lasting legacy by the governor

The legacy

If u are taking about the mid term project, the governor has done much in the state

TA orji is the best

INCONTROVERTIBLE FACTS THAT GAVE RISE TO
GOVERNOR T. A. ORJI’S AWARD BY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER

As blessed as the Nigerian state has been, not a few have continued to wonder why there should be a very high preponderance of abject penury amongst her citizens. In a situation where there is abundance of natural and material resources yet the people suffer the worst form of material poverty, it becomes inevitably conclusive that the leadership of such a polity either lacks required competence or is polluted by steam of corruption.

There is no gain saying the obvious that Nigeria is one of the most blessed countries of the world. Almost all the mineral resources that could turn a country rich are deposited in very large quantities in our dear country. Our soil is one of the most fertile on this planet Earth. The country has one of the most clement weather, very capable of driving and sustaining agricultural advancement that could guarantee the citizens’ self-sustenance. Nigerian intellectuals have consistently proved their mettle beyond the boundaries of their father-land. Yet at home, Nigerians continue to bemoan their misery. This development, that is hunger in the midst of plenty, has invariably made Nigerians cynics and pessimists. They have, for many years, if not decades, lost confidence in their leaders. So, anytime they hear that a leader has been given an award, they spontaneously infer that the award is an aftermath of a cash and carry negotiation. Of course, in very many cases, they are right. But as would be expected, nature cannot be so unfair to humanity to the extent that in a country of more than one hundred and forty million people, no one would be singled out as being altruistic and genuine. When such a person is identified and honoured, it becomes imperative that time-held pessimism should give way to optimism.

The recent award of ‘Man of the Year 2012’ on Governor Theodore Ahamefula Orji of Abia State by Independent Newspapers, is a development that surely guarantees optimism. It is an award that commands justification in all its ramifications. To begin with, the choice by the Newspaper Organization of the trio of Governor Theodore Ahamefula Orji, Alhaji Aliko Dangote; G.C.O.N, and Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui Okauru; M.F.R, cannot but be commended as choice diligently and impeccably arrived at. Their credentials tower above doubt. In Abia State where Chief T. A. Orji presides as the democratic head, it has to be recalled that before his emergence in 2007, the State was at sixes and sevens. The former governor had imposed a family hegemony on the state, with the result that majority of the stakeholders had fallen apart with him and his mother. Since the former governor was hell-bent on converting the wealth of the state to his personal cum family enterprise, it became inevitable that the stakeholders would fight in resistance to the ex-governor’s avarice. Hence, the state was torn apart in turmoil. The state, therefore, was at war with itself.

As would be expected, the people of the State became the casualties. This was the situation when Governor Orji arrived the scene. Being a quintessential administrator and technocrat, he quickly told himself that a kingdom divided against itself never prospers. The first thing the Governor did was to embark on a very honest programme of reconciliation and harmonization. Today, stakeholders in the state speak with one voice. Hence there is harmony and peace in Abia State.

The impunity with which the people of the state were mal-administered, exploited and overtly segregated and discriminated against had given rise to disappointment, discontent and disillusionment amongst the youths of the state, especially those of them from the old Aba Division who were the main target of the previous administration’s exploitative and discriminatory policies.

Before Chief T. A. Orji could mount the saddle, the foundation for lawlessness and criminality of a brutal order had been laid. Armed robbery and kidnapping menacingly confronted him for a long period of his first tenure. The fact that the former governor, whose record of inexplicable antagonism and confrontation against the federal government was an open secret, insisted on tele-guiding the affairs of the state during Governor T. A. Orji’s first tenure, did not, in any way, help matters. However, Chief Orji adopted diplomacy and sagacity to pull the state out of the wood. As a first step, he had to reintegrate the state into Nigeria’s main stream politics by rejoining the nationally ruling People’s Democratic Party. By this singular act, Abia was no more a pariah state. Being in the main stream of Nigeria’s politics, Ochendo, as he is fondly called, became well emboldened to fight the menace of kidnapping and other vices in the state. Today, kidnapping and armed robbery have been confined to the dust bin of Abia history. The state now ranks as one of the most secured in the Nigerian federation.

Before the ascension of Chief Orji as Governor of God’s own state, state-induced criminality had taken a toll on the pipeline of Pipeline Products’ Marketing Company that channels petroleum products from Alesa-Eleme in Rivers State to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation’s depot at Aba. The consequence of that act of criminality was the unfortunate dysfunctionality of that depot. Thousands of people who earned their living from the depot were hopelessly thrown into the world of unemployment. The collapse of the depot aggravated the security situation of the state. Again, to the Glory of God, Ochendo rose up to the challenge and worked tirelessly in effectively co-ordinated synergy with the Presidency to resuscitate the depot. He has also been unrelenting in his fight against pipeline vandalization and illegal oil bunkering. As at present, that depot has given succour to more than ten thousand persons who, directly or indirectly, earn their living from it.

No government that is a true product of democracy would ever joke with the health and welfare of her citizens. In this regard, it is interesting to know that the administration of Chief Orji has excelled in the area of health. Every person in Abia State has uninhibited access to medicare, that is equally affordable.

True to his electioneering promise, Ochendo has been running a tuition-free primary and secondary education policy in the state. His government has, so far, sustained four tertiary institutions in the state; Abia State University, Uturu, Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, Abia State College of Education Technical, Arochukwu and College of Health, Aba.

The state capital, Umuahia, was like a glorified local government headquarters before the emergence of Governor Orji. But as I write, Umuahia has been transformed into a befitting status of a state capital. A four-storey civil service secretariat has been built by the administration of Chief Orji. An international conference centre has almost been completed. For the twenty-two years existence of Abia State, the Government House has been in the negotiated private residence of the Late Air Commodore Emeka Omeruah. But Ochendo, being a progressive, has thought it otherwise. Solid architectural structures are severally springing up in the Ogurube layout to house the government of Abia State.

Agriculture that did not receive any quantifiable attention from previous administrations in the state, has now become an irresistible point of attraction in the state. The state government has successfully motivated Abians to go back to the land.

It is known the world over that governments are not the highest employers of labour. What a government does is to create enabling environment for people to make their living legitimately. In Abia State, Governor T. A. Orji has created the much-needed environment through roads and public utility. Besides what his administration has done in the above areas, he has outstandingly empowered Abia youths with vehicles, skill acquisition and various forms of pecuniary support.

Previously, Abia State Executive Councils were characterized by suspicion and instability. Commissioners were appointed and fired within a period not exceeding nine months and, ofcourse, with impunity. It was not only that commissioners were thrown out intermittently, but any time the Executive Council was dissolved, members who served in the council would be given a blanket condemnation, either as being fraudulent or incompetent. Hardly did any person who had served as a commissioner in the previous administration leave with his or her dignity and honour intact. During the same period, the relationship between the Governor and his deputy was always like that between a cat and a dog. There was never love lost. But in the case of Ochendo, the relationship between his deputy and he has remained unprecedentedly cordial and mutual. The commissioners he appointed worked in an atmosphere of peace, equanimity and freedom of conscience. When he considered it necessary to dissolve his cabinet on 15th May, 2013, he invited members of the council and, like a compassionate father that he is, took time to explain to them why he had to dissolve the executive council. Ochendo spoke as if he was under obligation to explain his decision to persons who ordinarily should be regarded as mere appointees or even labourers. At that valedictory cabinet session, every member of the cabinet had a sense of belonging arising from the humility and sincerity of their boss.

Ochendo has a burning passion to turn the fortunes of Abia State around. He has constantly depicted discipline, vision, equity, justice and transparency in all his enterprise. Not minding the financial predicaments of the State, Ochendo has consistently resisted the temptation of going to the Bond market to borrow. Ochendo does not concern himself only to what happens to Abia State that he now governs, but extensively believes in the welfare of the state, even when he would have constitutionally ceased to be her governor.

Mention should also be made that Ochendo is an outstanding adherent of constitutional democracy. This accounts for the total absence of conflict between the three constitutional arms of government in Abia State. As a gentle man born and bred in a family which head was a first-class warrant chief of the colonial epoch; a man that built the first storey building in the present Umuahia urban, Governor T. A. Orji has natural respect for the culture and custodians of his people’s culture and tradition. This is why traditional rulers in the state are treated with unqualified respect both by government and people of the State. Ochendo’s administration has dignified many traditional rulers with befitting cars, just to enhance their status as traditional rulers.

Acting differently from the insensitivity of the previous administration in the State, Governor T. A. Orji established Abia State Oil-Producing Development Commission, devoting thirty percent of the thirteen percent of oil derivation fund from the federation account to carter for development needs of oil-producing areas of the state. His administration has also bought Jeeps to all traditional rulers in Ukwa-West, which is the oil-producing local government area of the state. In addition, Ochendo has brought Shell Petroleum Development Company, S.P.D.C; closer to oil-producing communities of the State. To this effect, S.P.D.C. has signed a Global Memorandum of Understanding, G.M.o.U, with oil-producing clusters in the state. The company recently held a business round table with stakeholders in the state and arrangements are in top gear for her to partner with the office of Her Excellency, the wife of the Governor, to run a training and empowerment programme for the physically challenged in the State.

The passion and dreams of His Excellency, the Governor, are, no doubt, shared by his debonair and decorous wife, Lady Mercy Odochi Orji, admirably called Osinulomaranma. ‘Osinulo’ has been exceptionally wonderful in her show of magnanimity in the training and empowerment of Abia young men and women. She has continuously used her Non-Governmental Organization, Hannah-May Foundation, to build houses for widows and the less privileged in the three senatorial zones of the State. Ochendo has a peaceful and stable family. Hence every person in his family, including his first son; Engr. Chinedu Orji; Ikuku, is evidently committed to the project; Abia.

Abia State is God’s-Own State. When it was almost turned into goon’s-own State, the people wept, lamented and called on God to bring to them a liberator. God mercifully heard their prayers and sent them Chief T. A. Orji. Under his administration, Abia State has reclaimed its appellation and status of God’s-Own State. Ochendo has rededicated the State to God. Instead of going to juju shrines in Okija, as was the case previously, the government and people of Abia State now frequent and patronize the temples of God in the various churches in the State.

In realization of the immense contributions made by the people of Abia State for the State Government to achieve what it has, so far, achieved, Governor T. A. Orji humbly dedicated the award by the Independent Newspapers to the people of Abia State. This is an award well deserved and the people are happy for it. They are appreciative of the selective mechanism of the Independent Newspapers. To God be the glory!

Match INDIA VS NIGERIA:

99-1 Please, did you watch the match or heard about it?.
... When I was young, this story used to be common that India used juju to beat Nigeria 99-1. I heard it was a well known
Nigeria football player that scored our only
goal, the ball changed to a stone and
he kicked it without thinking twice.
All our players were just seeing double, all our
goalkeeper could see each time an Indian player played the ball at him was a
roaring lion and a ball of fire which
made him to run away from the goal post. I also heard this was why India
is banned forever from playing football. Please, is this story true?. Did you watch the match or heard about it too?

The Governor focus more in Aba

The ongoing development in Aba, was not witness during the past administration it is the first of it kind in the commercial city.
Faulks road has been reconstructed such that those going to Ariaria can now heave a sigh of relief.
Ukwumango which used to link Portharcourt express road to Ariaria market which had been impassable, is
being worked upon, in fact many say that making this road passable again is one of Ochendo’s gift to Aba people. Other roads are Ohanku road, Ama
ikonnne, Ama Ogbonna road.”
“Aba alone is witnessing the construction and rehabilitation of over 33 roads; most of these roads are nearing completion.”
“In Aba the Governor has constructed an over head bridge at Abia poly to ensure that the students are protected. At the entrance of Aba, the usual chaotic
nature at osisoma junction, has given way to a lush green park, which is part of Ochendo’s beautification of Aba.”
The governor is also constructing a new motor park at Osisioma.
“In Abia state university teaching hospital an ultra modern theater hall is being built for the student doctors, while a high court building is under construction in Aba.Ride on the peoples Governor.

I feel so reluctant writing rejoinders to the uninspiring, delirous and blackmailing submissions of Odimegwu Onwumere. Calling them articles will be a great misnomer as his twisted pieces will hardly measure up in any way with acceptable norms of writing. They are so much characterized with confused verbs, non existent expressions and banal logics. To reveal his debased intent, none of his claims are evident even when juxtaposed with the most minimal of scales. It is unfortunate that a journalistic goon and unrepentant school dropout will continue to insult a popularly elected, and an incumbent governor such as Sir T.A. Orji. One thing is certain; the flagrant conflagrations ignited by onwumere will one day consume him.
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> For those who do not know him and his antics, Onwumere is a proven blackmailer and vagrant of no fixed address. He claims Rivers State and at times Aba. It is on record that he was nabbed in UBA Port-Harcourt where he went to pick up a blackmail payoff unaware that his victim had alerted the security officials of the bank. According to Patrikobi an online publication, he is an ex-convict having served time for libel. Last year he was questioned for molesting minors having laid a good foundation for his criminal act as he pretended to run an N.G.O. Is such a character worth our precoius time, costly mental perspiration and prized appropriation? Check out http//juristlaws..com/2012/08/ ‘Odimegwu Onwumere nabbed.’
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> From his recent publication in Mordern Ghana, an online publication, he imagined and wants people to believe that Abia State Government House is no more comfortable for His Excellency Sir T.A. Orji and so he embarks on trips abroad. He cited the last Canadian trip as an example. The world knows that the trip of the Governor and entourage was a national affair involving other state Governors and presidential aides. It was titled the ‘Nigeria-Canada Investment Summit,’ so why single the governor of Abia for oprobium if odimegwu is well intended? Other trips by the Governor are known and have achieved monumental results. His Excellency was at John Hopkins University, United States of America, where he delivered a thought-provoking lecture, hinting on Governance in Nigeria while urging Nigerians in diaspora to come home, invest, contribute their quota to home growth and partner with Government in many fields. Can there be a more patriotic service to state and nation than this?
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> As an accountable personality who exercises the mandate of the people, he takes time to brief Abians of his missions whenever he comes back from journeys, and I ask: is there anything wrong with that? As stated above, these trips are followed with results. Shanid Agro International is in Ohambele Ukwa East, rehabilitating the Abia Palm Estate. Shoprite, the South African Superstore chain is in Umuahia, Abia Rubber Company in Abam Arochukwu Local Government Area, enjoys a PPP contract with a foreign firm facilitated by Abia Government. There are many verifiable examples.
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> In March 2013, Engineer Joe Etto, the president of World Igbo Congress in America, a reputable cultural group of Igbo extraction and lobby group visited Abia and publicly acknowledged in an interview in the THISDAY newspaper of April that Abia is on the right course. Daily Post online of March 25th posited same. So what else do we need? The corrugated opinions of Odimegwu, his likes and paymasters put together fall on T.A. Orji and Abians like blunt darts of serious regret.
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> Probably his delirious ear is yet to hear about the meeting of opposition parties in Abia compromising: ANPP, CPC, DPP, APGA, ACN. All respectively represented by the following- Chief Cassidy Agbai- Chairman, Kalu kalu, Ikonne Okechukwu, Chief Ozo Abata and Chief Egwunatu Egbulefu who jointly and emphatically agreed to support good governance in the South East no matter the party.
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> In one month interval, the Executive Chamber of Abia State was abuzz with quality and valuable visits from Hon Boon Intiratana, the commercial counselor of the Royal Thai Embassy in quest of Agric Tourism and agro processing. Ambassador Hoang Ngoc Ho, Vietnamese Ambassador to Nigeria talked about trade cooperation in agricultural, manufacturing, construction, pharmacy and textile. Jeffrey Hawkins, U S. consular General in Lagos with a powerful entourage numbering over five Americans with the deputy, Mrs Dehab, mooted ideas not too far from the former. Could these incorruptible officers of sworn integrity and gazetted probity have left their hallowed embassies for a jamboree in Abia?
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> Locally the Governor has been awarded pass marks from Federal Government personalities. Who did not hear of the good Governance tour that couldn’t finish visiting the projects sites because of its numerosity? The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, NUJ Chairman Mallam M. Garba, RATTAWO President, Hon Yemi Gbamgbose, Mallam Lamido Sanusi who crowned the governor as the best on youth empowerment during his Ochendo annual lecture series on APRIL 24, 2013. Are all these oracles aides of Ochendo who sing his praises?
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> Just last week, Hon. Ozo Mgbachi – the house committee chairman on works visited Abia with his committee members on their oversight functions verifying Federal Government projects especially those done by the state for which the state is owed huge amounts. After their tour they extolled the efforts of His Excellency in over all infrastructure and added a new appellation- Ochendo Global. Are these sychophants too?
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> Monday, 20TH May 2013, Alhaji Aminu Tanbuwal, speaker of the Federal House of Reps made a short visit and commissioned two completed projects, the ASEPA House which was started not too long ago and the Industrial Market at Azueke Ndume. Are these phoney people?
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> Abia has recovered from many diseases inflicted by bad leadership of the past. I may not delve into the Legacy Projects dotting the landscape of Abia like the new workers secretariat spawning the first elevator in Abia which Odimegwu knows too well but for his selfish interests of desperately blackmailing for his irregular meals has refused to acknowledge lest he annoys his paymasters. Not to worry about that, the sun is shining and the wonderful works of T.A. Orji- Ochendo are wondrous in the eyes of men and God.
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> Shame on Onwumere!
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> God bless Abia. May we have more Ochendos

U only said market, it is an industrial market and asepa building, point of correction the speaker was not invited because of that commission project

What wrong has the governor do, in dis solving his cabinet, it will enable him run his administration well, mean why the Governor has drop down a lasting legacy 4 the people of Abia, with his transformation development.

Our Governor is working

The roads in abia

That road is not in abia,

Welcome back sir

The project was done with a German –based environmental firm, Prof.
Dr.Ing. Hartung and Partner, has indicated
interest to set up a waste re-cycling plant in Abia
state,and so called Struve revealed that recycling of metal and other wastes would help rid the state of hips of metal and other wastes, as well as preserve the
environment.

Y are u people trying to blackmail an innocent government, ur so called international correspondent are the one once lieing, the ABSG really heard An agreement with a German company about Waste management Project with Abia State Government”.

The state governor is putting in his best in empowering the youth, in the past government how many people were empowered,The task of state building is very challenging and can be divided into phases. Everyone can contribute towards it according to his or her capabilities. First of all, the young people should be made to understand a specific project and its importance to the society. They should be given a suitable direction so that they can work hard for its fulfillment. This will make them satisfied by the realization that they have been assigned & role in the nation building. Therefore, it would be wise for the government to associate the young people with all such programmes which concern them. It is not difficult to mobilize the youth for national building provided someone offers them the right and honest leadership.

Thus, the youth are full of vast and untapped energy. Each state must see that its youth power is properly utilized in which the state governor is doing. It is the duty of the society to see that the youth is not corrupted by the corrupt leaders. They may be used by rival groups of teachers to disturb the academic environment. This government put has enabling environment free to our colleges and universities from the bane of politics. When in colleges and universities, the youth should be kept buys with academic courses and sports. When they are free, they should be engaged fruitful activities. Only then can we use the youth power for the task of nation building. IN WHICH GOVERNOR T A ORJI IS DOING RIDE ON SIR

Today it is globally realized that youth empowerment led the state and prosperity for next generations. Now many countries are focusing their youth by investing heavily in education, health, skills development and leadership education. These steps brought on forefronts, ultimately these nations leading the world. Therefore we can say that youth empowerment is integral for national development especially for under developing countries Nigeria where youth constitute majority of overall population. If these countries focus on youth development and empowerment it will led them towards long term prosperity. Those countries who invest heavily in their youth they get high returns on their investment in every sector.