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mrvitalis:
Osisioma is not aba, port harcourt road is not aba ...u see what im saying its like judging lagos with otta

All of them na Aba. How is PH road not Aba when it runs into Aba town? You are talking nonsense. From Alaoji to Osisioma is Aba abi you think Aba ends in Umungasi and Park?

Its like saying Oshodi is not Lagos and Surulere is not Lagos. What a joke

VillagePipu:
There is a port in Warri and there are 2 Ports in Rivers. Don't drag the SS into the incompetence of the misfits you elected to lead you.

Is it ports that is making Ikpeazu owe pensioners and use kerosene to pay them? Or it is ports that made Aba markets look like abandoned latrines.

As if Kano with a solid state economy is giving the same dumb excuses you people give. Successes have results, failures give excuses.

Ikuku, TA Orji's son is warming up to rule Abia in 2023. 20 years from now, this is the same ports and oceans excuse you would give your children for the stunted growth of the SE while others have far developed.

+10000

The problem with Igboland is the likes of T.A Orji, Ikpeazu, Ikuku, Orji Uzor, Rochas and the likes.

Not the North or Yoruba people

There will NEVER be an Eyinmba Economic City put into practice by Ikpeazu and his cronies. Never. In 2023 you will still be looking for this city and it will be nowhere to be found.

How can you build a new city when you ant even repair a few kilometers of road in the current one or remove the heaps of refuse drowning Aba and Umuahia?

Its a joke. A sad one at that

ushmanny:
And yet they voted in the Governor the second time. Let them enjoy the owing!!!!!

Nobody voted for Ikpeazu or all his predecessors like T.A Orji. They just manufacture results in a few areas.

They act with impunity because no matter who the masses vote for and even if the people vote massively against them, they still win.

Chukazu:
My dear the night life aspect is killing.
Umuahia is dead zone once it's 9pm, because business are dead and crime is the order

I feel really bad for Abia people. ANybody who thinks their current level of existence is tolerable has either never left Abia and environs or is a paid sycophant. Once the sun goes down life outside is virtually over. Aba wasnt like that in the 1980's the town was flooded with powerful street lights and traffic lights, roads had markings, side walks and covered drainages, cinemas and night concerts were a thing too.

The people are not living they are just existing currently. Aba is a decript filthy town (ex-city) with huge refuse dumps and Umuahia is basically a village (ex-town) that's very dirty as well

Meanwhile the people who kept them in those conditions are enjoying life full time in Abuja with Abia state money. The live in 15 million Naira per annum modern complexes that look like what you see in 1st world countries that don't exist anywhere in Abia State. They move around on beautiful 6 lane boulevards at 3am every weekend in Abuja to and fro from different wonderful night clubs. They go to modern shopping complexes and malls, spend their weekends in multiples cinemas and parks, order pizzas, burgers, French fries etc and things to be delivered to their house. Modernity that is completely alien to Abia State

Meanwhile some sycophants collect a few thousand Naira and promote propaganda. Unlike propaganda like "Aba mega mall" and "Aba flyover" etc, Abuja malls are actually real malls and Abuja flyovers and roads are actually real. So sad

Chukazu:
Frozen Brain!

I asked you simple question and you keep dabbling into frivolities.
Mention one single standard Road project in entire Abia and post pictures here ...I dare you?

Abia receives more revenue from FG than any state in South East and should easily be the highest in IGR in same South East , but juxtapose same to level of development accros south East and tell me how Abia is developing?

Abia is virtually the only state in South East that can't pay salaries without federal allocation

Ebonyi, Enugu ,Anambra all pay salaries without federal allocation...Imo we know the Okorocha syndrome

Umuahia is a glorified village with dumpsite all over.

Aba is littered with substandard road with no drainage

Even political appointees of Ikpeazu praise him in the open and castigate him behind because he's ineffective useless stooge, but you who knows nothing about Ikpeazu and his style of government believe " Ikpeazu is the best thing since slice Bread and moi moi?"... tufiakwa!

These guys are paid peanuts to defend the indefensible

What they dont realize is that because of Aba's potential, if some decent level of infrastructure came into the town, they would have the opportunity of making 10 times as much as the Governor pays them to defend him online.

There are threads on Southeast Development here on Nairaland showcasing hundreds of pages of development in each thread of Enugu, Anambara, Imo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Ebonyi

There is none for Abia because of the decayed condition of the state.

Uyo was a really small town compared to Aba. Awka was a really tiny town compared to Aba. Owerri and Enugu too were behind Aba. Today Uyo is far more developed and Owerri and Enugu are much father ahead of Aba now. Even Awka has taken strides in development.

I weep for Aba and Abia people but I also weep for people who collect peanuts and defend the filth that Abia is today

Meanwhile their political patrons and their families spend all their time in Abuja (An actual city with full blown nightlife, street lights, traffic lights, pedestrian lights, 6 way lanes, night clubs, malls, cinemas, parks, shopping complexes, boulevards etc) when they could easily develop Aba to be at least Port Harcourt or Uyo or Enugu or Owerri levels.

Tufiakwa

konjakonja:
Here is one of the imbeciles deceiving Otti and Ogah, are you tired of showing old pictures pigglet? Show us faulks road, show us Portharcourt road, show us MCC, show us umuocham, show us omni, show us umuola and Ehere road, show us Ibadan street, show us St Michaels road by jubilee, show us umuojima, show us ugwu mango by umule road, show us those filled asepa dumps you're known for in 2014 before elections.

Degrading yourself for pennies while Aba's potential as a world renowned city and immense opportunities that come with that especially for the youth withers away.

Aba is in a state of complete filth and decay now. A serious leader can make it a brand new city in 18 to 24 months max. If you rebuild 25 to 35 kilometers of roads in Aba it would become one of our leading cities again. Instead they leave you in filth and go to Abuja and spend their time in a clean, serene and sane environment that actually looks like a city while employing sycophants and paying them pennies to degrade themselves online and defend a city they abandoned to be a rotten dump.

Ojiofor:
Tell me one major project he have commissioned after 4 years?
Take a look at Aba road in Umuahia that is not up 2klm is abandoned half way.Stop praising mediocrity and looting going on in Abia state.

The insanity of people who support the current rot in Abia is immeasurable.

Abia and Aba in particular are in a state of total decay. The funny thing is that if you did like 35 KM of solid roads in Aba with sidewalks it would look like a brand new city.

People who are ok with the filth that is currently in Aba have either never left the state or paid sycophants of the current and previous govt.

The resources of the state are being used to enrich a few and the people in power feel this sense of impunity due to their rigging machine.

I'm sick of this mediocrity

B2mario:
It's one after the other

This is the type of mentality that allows mediocrity to rein in Igbo land. All those roads are a few kilometers long and can all be fixed in the same year within a few months at the same time

I weep for Igboland sha. Imagine praising the state Aba is in

tysontim:
pH road and Aba road he needs to complete the two. The fyovers can wait.

If he does that no problem.

As for Ogar voting in his parlor that's bad, but then even Ikpeazu rigged too. Otherwise we're did the 76000 from obingwa come from

These jokers act with impunity because they think they have perfected the act of rigging Abia elections. Ikpeazu is NOT going to do anything for Aba. if you go to Aba in 4 years it would still be very decrepit, dirt, desolate and filthy all the while potential entrepreneurs keep fleeing in droves. 8 years of T.A Orji and also Orji Uzor Kalu did catastrophic damage to this once great city. The past 4 years have been a continuation of this disaster and the next 4 will be the exact same.

The people who defend this abomination here and on other online platforms are paid pennies and are too ignorant to realize that the little amount of money they get from Abia state govt is not worth the damage they are helping to inflict on the state

I challenge anybody to visit Aba this time next year and see if Port Harcourt road is done. Its just another flyover gimmick

DedeNkem:
I live in Aba, so what transformation are you talking about?!

Don't mind these fools. Celebrating living in filth and dirt

sunbilor:
Why didn't TA Orji your brother fix ?

What is all this "Your brother" talk? Aba and Umuahia are rotten and most people don't care if its a space alien that comes and fixes it. The current rigged in Govt of a stooge is incapable of doing it

Lilkini:
You know nothing oga... do you stay in abia? if you know the state very well then you would know hes actually the best governor they've had.

His first two years in office was wasted in court and yet he made use of two years to fix many roads. stfu if u know nothing

GTFOH with your nonsense propaganda. You think Abia people are fools or what?

Just get rid of Ikpeazu and PDP and the state will develop

banom:
Before i state those five important reasons, it is important i point out i was one of those highly vocal Atikulators last year. But as time went by, and with deeper understanding of what is really going on in Nigeria, i changed my mind. And decided to support what is best for me and my people. I can not be supporting Atiku or any other person at the expense of the freedom of my people. I still love Atiku and i wish him the very best, but Biafra is a far bigger priority and it most come first before any other thing.

The following are five major reasons IPOB advocated for Biafrans to boycott the presidential election. And i agree 100& with them, and every enlightened Igbo man or woman should comply as well.

IT IS A HARMLESS AND EFFECTIVE WAY OF COLLECTIVELY TELLING THE WORLD WHAT THE IGBOS WANT AS A PEOPLE.

The first importance of boycotting the presidential election is to send a message of what you want to the world, who themselves will not only be watching and taking note from afar, but will equally be on the ground to observe and see things for themselves.

The message is simple : Do you want Biafra or do you want to remain in Nigeria ? Its your choice, and no one will make it for you or force his or her own choice or opinion on you. It has nothing to do with PDP or APC or any other political party, it is about what you want and your choice of nationhood.

If you chose to remain in Nigeria, it is of utmost importance that you go out on the presidential election day and vote and play a part in deciding who leads the nation for the next four years.
But if your choice is to break away from Nigeria, and form a Biafran nation, then the Nigerian presidential election presents you a platform to tell that to the world by refusing to participate in it.
It is an indirect form of Referendum. You refuse to vote not because ordinarily you wouldn't want to vote, but a way to demonstrate and agitate to break away from a country you feel its not fair to you and you no longer want to be part of .

The beauty of it is that the election boycott is both harmless and effective: Harmless in the sense that it doesn't put you at any physical risk. It is far safer than coming out on the street to demonstrate and agitate for what you want. You simply stay in your house, relax yourself, play with your kids and loved ones, and even have time to reflect on all that the Igbo man has suffered for decades in the calamity called Nigeria, and ponder on what will be the way out in other to achieve a better future for yourself and your kids. And it will be effective because the world will be watching and will respond to you according to your wish. They will not force on you a nation you don't want. Your boycott will become a statement of what you want and the world will see and hear it loud and clear. And will respond accordingly.

IPOB NEEDS IT AS A LOBBYING AND NEGOTIATION WEAPON.

You might wonder why would IPOB seriously advice Biafrans to boycott the presidential election, and how would boycotting the presidential election help achieve Biafra?
This is a very reasonable and pertinent question as it is necessary one must understand the rational behind every such instructions before carrying it out. And more so, is the fact that at first look, the election boycott order looks like a person willfully harming himself , or even a sinister agenda in itself.

The truth is that it takes only an insider in the battle between IPOB and the Nigerian government, or a well enlightened outsider to immediately understand the reason behind IPOB issuing the election boycott order.

To a greater extent, what an average Biafran man living in Nigeria knows about the struggle by IPOB to actualise Biafra freedom is the countless demonstrations and protests IPOB activists and supporters do stage on the street on daily basis. While those protests are necessary and has its own level of effectiveness, that alone will not actualise Biafra.

Outside the event that we go to war with Nigeria and fight our way out of Nigeria, the way we will actualise Biafra will come from those protests, all manners of civil disobedience we embark on, and serious pressure that will be mounted on the Nigerian government from foreign powers to accept to fix a date for referendum and let us go.

To lobby for this foreign supports, IPOB lobbyists and consultants are working tirelessly outside Nigeria, meeting with foreign powers, international organisations, and well to do individuals praying and pleading for our case for freedom and independence from Nigeria.

The problem here is that they are not alone in it: The Nigerian government are equally engaging this same foreign Powers and and lobbying them not to listen nor support IPOB to liberate us from Nigeria.
The implication is that these foreign Powers are standing on the fence: on one hand is IPOB pleading "please help us out of Nigeria, our people are marginalised and no longer want to be part of Nigeria", while On the other hand is Nigeria government telling these foreign Powers "don't listen to IPOB, they are not the true representative of the will of the people, the Biafran people still want to remain in Nigeria".

How does election boycott come into the equation? If you boycott the presidential election as directed by IPOB, it will serve IPOB two crucial purposes: one, it will add to their legitimacy as the organization fighting for the liberation of our people, and stamp them as the true representative of the people and their will.

Second, the election boycott itself will form as part of IPOB lobbying and negotiation arsenal. A weapon in their diplomatic armory. They can now go back to these foreign Powers and use it to further plead and press their case for Biafran independence. They can now tell them, " you see our people no longer wish to be in Nigeria, they fully demonstrated this by massively boycotting the Nigerian presidential election" .

That is the main reason they asked you to boycott the presidential election. So that they can use it to further plead our case for independence.

Why didn't you understand the boycott as a tool for a diplomatic tussle between IPOB and the Nigerian government ? The answer is that the Nigerian government don't even want you to know about it, because they know that If you get to know about it, as an Igbo man naturally , you will take side with IPOB and boycott the election.
Another reason is the Cloud, (the falsehoods) created by PDP propaganda machine. Because, somehow, Igbos boycott of the election will affect the PDP more than the APC, they are out brainwashing unenlightened igbo men and women that IPOB and NNAMDI KANU is working for Buhari by asking them to boycott the election.
But when the same IPOB and NNAMDI KANU were busy exposing Buhari as an impostor Jubril, they supported it then because , it was discrediting APC, and benefiting them. Now, incidentally, the election boycott order is now against their own interest, NNAMDI KANU is now suddenly working for Buhari.

But the great question is " how can NNAMDI KANU be working for Buhari and at the same time be causing him lethal damage by exposing him as an impostor ? " Does that make any sense to any sensible mind ?

IT WILL RAISE IGBO'S LONG TERM POLITICAL VALUE IN NIGERIA.

Contrary to what some unenlightened folks and people in the PDP propaganda room have said about Biafrans boycotting the presidential election, that, it will adversely affect the igbos, on the contrary, it will raise Igbo's political value in Nigeria. Which is one of the root causes of their ordeal in Nigeria. most Igbo's political misfortune in Nigeria somehow stem from an igbo mans own behavior to what affects the well being of the igbos in general. An igbo man often acts too personal that they can not achieve anything collectively as a people.

How will Igbos boycotting the presidential election raise their political value in Nigeria ? To answer that, you have to look at the northerners: there are two reasons the northerners have more political value and edge over the rest of Nigerians, first, they decide what to do and do it in unison as one people, everyone commits to it with full gear, and it bears fruit. They did it in 1966 when they carried out a tribal coup to take away power from the south, and in recent times, in 2015, they banded together to take away power from Goodluck Jonathan.

Second, in every political decisions they make, they normally think first and foremost of themselves and and act first for their own good. Even if the decision will negatively affect the rest of the country, they don't care. They understand that Nigeria is not truly one, and united, and the best thing to do is to do those things that will benefit you, and act first for your own good and that of your people .
If they are the one who wants a breakaway from Nigeria, and as a result of that, are asked to boycott the Nigerian presidential election, they will comply to it 100%. In fact, you won't even near their place to say you are hosting any presidential political campaign, they will deal with you. Try it and you may not go back alive, and nothing will come out of it. They will never support one of two igbo men to be elected the president of the country at the expense of the pursuit of their own freedom. They will NEVER, EVER, AND EVER do that. That is who the northerners are: smart, united, and self interest driven. What matters to them is their own survival, not yours.

How will igbos boycotting the presidential election replicate this behavior of the northerners, its very simple : by massively boycotting the election, they will send a clear positive message to the rest of Nigerians that they can no longer accept the on going institutional marginalisation of the igbos by the Nigerian government. That they are now people capable of taking a decision and acting fully on it as one people. This will make other Nigerians to take them seriously, knowing fully well that they are people capable of speaking with one voice and acting on it. That they can be united in pursuit of a goal, or in support of a Candidate or agenda.
Besides that, by demonstrating the ability to stage such a massive civil disobedience, the Nigerian government will be forced to stop their systematic marginalisation of the people and work to integrate them fully well in the scheme of things in Nigeria in other to have them to always comply with civic responsibilities. No government wants civil disobedience or can fully function well against it.

The contrary is actually what will affect the Igbos: if the igbos refuse to comply with the boycott order, it will still showcase them to the rest of Nigerians as people not yet capable of speaking with one voice and acting on it. It will portray them as people not united, and unserious people who can't tell what is best for them, and who can not stand up and say to Nigerian government enough is enough. And the Nigerian government marginalisation of them will continue.

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO LOSE AND THERE IS EVERYTHING TO GAIN.

Before going deeper into this, it is important for you to understand the directive issued by IPOB. they said "you may Vote in other elections, but totally boycott the presidential election" But before they gave such directive, they had already done their calculations and arrived at the necessity of such decision.
First of all, the presidential election which will take place before other elections will have much global exposure , so it presents a bigger opportunity for you to tell the world what you want. Boycotting it completely will be a powerful message sent and heard wide, loud and clear.
On the other hand, the governorship and other states election which will take place later, presents opportunity for you to vote out those state governors that out of their selfish political ambitions, are standing against the movement for the actualization of Biafran freedom. Those state governors like Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia state , and Dave Umahi of ebonyi state who were ruthless and foolish enough to invite soldiers to kill our people for agitating for their freedom. Show them the way out. Then elect or reelect those who have been sympathetic to our course or at least sensible and human enough not to kill us.
That is the perfect voting step any enlightened Biafran should take. It is the perfect voting method that will help actualise Biafran freedom. Vote in men and women of good will and conscience, irrespective of their party affiliation. people who are enlightened enough to lead well and work for the general interest of the igbos.
There is absolutely no risk in boycotting the presidential election, instead, there is everything to be gained from it.

IT IS YOUR OWN LITTLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE STRUGGLE FOR THE ACTUALIZATION OF BIAFRAN INDEPENDENCE.

If you support the idea of we Biafrans going our separate way to form a free progressive nation where we can proudly call our own, then it calls for a responsibility for all of us to in one way or the other contribute to the struggle to actualise it. It will not come by merely wishing or saying you support it. It will come by everyone one of us contributing in one way or the other the much we can to to make it to become a reality.

Before you do that, there are two important things you must understand about the current Biafran struggle: one, now and more than ever before, we have the best chance to actualise Biafra. The agitation has so much gone far that all what is remaining is one key step or event and Biafra will become a reality .
Second, since the need for us to go our separate way and form a Biafran nation started in the late 1960s, we have lost so much for it that we can not afford to go back. It is Biafra or nothing. Our parents and grandparents lost their lives to make sure we are free people and not to experience the hopelessness we are experiencing today as Nigeria. Their sacrifices can never go in vain.
No tribe in Nigeria have lost more people for their survival and existence like we Biafrans. The existence of Nigeria is a curse on us. We wouldn't have lost over 3 million of our people if Nigeria never existed. We must continue until we get what we want.
And to get that freedom we want, and ensure that the sacrifices of our fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, and even foreign sympathizers like Bruce Mayrock our distant cousin, and many others were not in vain, we all must contribute to the struggle one way or the other.
You don't need to lose your life like millions we have already lost in other to contribute to actualise this vision, and our prayer is that we will not lose a single Biafran life again in this struggle. And you also may not need to come out in the street to demonstrate or evangelise before you can contribute to the struggle, you can make your own contribution to the struggle by boycotting the presidential election as directed and it will be counted for you. History will remember you, and what you have done, and your conscience will be at peace. Though the task might be small, but never under estimate it, it is vital , and probably the most important step needed now to our freedom.

very true.

Imagine leaving the likes of Ikpeazu in power in the name of election boycott

magoo10:
on a realistic level PDP is retaining abia state government house.

Apga came close to clinching to power in 2015 but the tempo in 2019 seems very low there seems to be no hope.

The apc gubernatorial candidate is a business man that is still learning the rope of politics.

The sitting governor comes from a region of the state that occupies 9 out of the 17 local government in Abia state and being the first time of such position going to them they will guard it with the last drop of their blood.

APGA won by a landslide in 2015 but were rigged out by fake results T.A wrote. If they are prevented from rigging again PDP is done after 20 years of gross mismanagement of the state. The people are completely fed up.

Abia just needs a change in govt and watch Aba take off like a rocket and become the number 1 city in the Southeast again

Xander85:
There's two reasons for this: the useless and visionless governors they've been saddled with from 1999-date; and the Nigerian political-economy!

They can't do much about the latter, but the former is entirely of their making! Aba ordinarily should have taken advantage of its proximity to Port Harcourt like Ogun (Agbara) has done with Lagos...this is despite the Nigerian political-economy not giving it the advantages Agbara has!

They voted out their govt in 2015 only to be rigged out of their popular will. They will vote them out again next month. Only difference this time is if they can stop the rigging

This is a list of states by GDP not IGR

B2mario:
This is not the current state of Ariaria. Okezie has done well in that area. At least he expanded Faulks road and worked almost all the adjoining roads that lead to the market. Politicians with their propaganda, who knows when they took this pix, it cant be this year cos it's not raining in Aba right now.

What are you talking about? That IS the current state of Ariaria and Aba under the current government.

Who do you think you are fooling? It rained for the first time a few days ago and the whole town is completely flooded already.

EvangLouisAba:
You are correct. OUK, in collaboration with the mother, permitted traders to build anyhow in the market. Look at the result today. TA did nothng to improve the mkt, not even to build the roads leading to the mkt. He was only collectng revenue from the traders. The problem in the mkt was extremly huge, problems that had built up even from the military admns. Ikpeazu has been busy workng in the mkt since 2015 he came on board. Even that woman in the water, and all livng in Aba, or coming to Aba for biz, know. The problems created by the past goverments in Aba generally and Ariaria specifically, cant be solved overnight. Any gov candidate promising overnight transformation of Aba is deceivng himself. Ikpeazu is busy workng on Aba. He needs time to complete the work he has started in Ariaria. Vote for him to complete it.

Ikpeazu is a joker and has done absolutely nothing for Aba just like his godfather TA. He is a puppet being manipulated by TA and his son to keep a permanent hold on Abia finances.

The first step before Abia can come out from this mess starts with sacking him. Under no circumstance on earth should he be allowed back into the governors office

megacity:
I come to Abia State frequently and except for selfish reason, no right thinking person will say that Ikpeazu should be re-elected.

He has not delivered any major projects.

The road to the government house is more like a road you find in interior villages

Umuahia is like a village with no major effort to transform the city


The few road he constructed are bad again due to poor quality work ....check Owerri road and Faulks road in Aba

The contractors he uses are so bad. Those that dug drainages in Owerri road Aba, left deep holes uncovered all over, constituting death traps, absolute madness. I have only ever seen this kind of shoddy work in Abia state.

The flyover under construction at Osisioma junction is a summary of how useless Ikpeazu's government has been. This is the only flyover Ikpeazu has attempted to construct to the best of my knowledge. It's taking forever, looking like an abandoned project with only one piece of equipment, and one or two laborers at the site! At the rate work is going, Ikpeazu will not complete that flyover even if you give 10 years more!

Compare this with others: By the time Obiano was going for re-election, he had already completed three flyovers in Awka.

Go to Abakaliki and check the roads and the number of solid flyovers Umahi has done...

And Abia state is an oil producing state with more resources than these other states


IF ANYONE PAID YOU TO CAMPAIGN FOR IKPEAZU, RETURN THE MONEY; YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN ALL GOOD CONSCIENCE


And please please, stop calling the name of the Lord in vain! Remove 'shout Alleluia' from that poster. Stealing in the name of the Lord is not allowed

These guys are paid minions to promote sickening propaganda on here. Aba is a horrific slum and so is Umuahia. I weep for the state.

These guys act with impunity because they have successfully stolen election after election even the one in 2015.

What should be Igbo lands leading city is in a total shambles because of them ad they come on here to write nonsense just to keep getting money from their master

Abia State is not cursed. It just needs an immediate change to the govt and an end to the impunity that currently exists

rossyc:
I wish Alex Otti won, Ikpeazu is a disgrace..Thank God for people like Gov.Udom.

2015 Abia election was rigged. won by a landslide by one person but rigged and the loser declared winner

How did this dredging going? Can we see the end product of it? Im sure it must be amazing or at least ok

Donald95:
I live in Aba And the governor is really trying but Stupid people living in Aba will prefer dumping dirt's on the road side ọ or anywhere they feel like. Just look at how those idiots are trying to litter The newly constructed Faulks Road.

Sometimes we are the cause

You cant be serious. What we have right now in Aba and Abia state is height of mediocrity in government and absolutely horrific living environment. Aba needs a working drainage system and alot of road resurfaced non of which would ever happen with the current govt in power that spends 4 years digging one gutter and pretending to be building a flyover, has no waste disposal plan making Aba and Umuahia the dirtiest places in Nigeria with so many disease risks. Why do you have to go through mud and dirt and infectious stagnant water in a repulsive environment to get to Ariaria? Why cant govt set up a system to collect simple trash?

The potential of the city is going to absolute waste as the city has decayed and turned comatose. A city that is much worse than it was 30 years ago when everyother place including small towns outside Abia have made forward leaps and bounds

Mods start moving Abia threads to the front page. The state is in need of massive transformation and until the spotlight is shone on it this disaster will continue unabated.

Abia badly needs a change in leadership. Like badly.

All the people who spend their time on "Afonja" and Yorubas should pls turn their fire on the failure of govt in Abia

Calers:
Camden in new jersey in United state is worst than this.

Statements like this make Nigerians who have never stepped out of the country not really realize the crap hole and the level of filth they reside in.

Camden NJ might be one of the worst cities in the USA but it is easily the most developed city in all of west Africa if you uprooted and transferred it to West Africa. A place where 100% of the houses are connected to a central sewage system and a central water system. No boreholes or suckaway pits. Very good and well marked roads, fully functioning traffic lights, sidewalks (open gutter doesn't exist even for 1 inch), streetlights etc.

If it was a section of Nigerian city it would be the best developed by many miles.

Wake up to the rot we exist in people!

nkky:
does anyone know of a doctor in Raleigh north carolina where i can deliver. thats where i have family that can help when i deliver. this is my first baby after 10 years of marriage.

Thanks

Raleigh (Triangle) area has many good hospital systems. Rex, Wakemed and Duke also nearby. You can research or call and find out which gives you the best rate.

Raleigh is not expensive as a city. Not sure if the out of pocket childbirth costs could be

Igbo people here need to understand that Yoruba people are not the issue. All this energy being wasted here should be used to tackle Southeastern leaders who have underdeveloped and destroyed the South East esp Aba, a city that should be the shining light of the East

Aba was way more developed than almost every South Western city 30 years ago. Street lights everywhere, traffic lights everywhere, the roads were marked, planned GRA's springing up, sidewalks and covered drainages like you find in the west, Cinemas in the city, parks and recreational areas, supermarkets, global high end outlet and retail stores like Bata shoe etc. Port Harcourt wasn't even really ahead of it. Aba was way more developed than Enugu, Owerri, Awka, Uyo, Onitsha, Calabar, Ado Ekiti, Akure, Abeokuta & all of Ogun, Ilorin, Oshogbo etc. Some even argued Aba was more developed than both Port Harcourt and Ibadan.

30 years ago the only Nigerian city clearly ahead of Aba was Lagos the federal capital.


Can anybody explain why 30 years later the City of Aba that is Nigeria's #2 commercial and industrial city for a long time

Doesn't have a single functioning street?
Doesn't have a single functioning traffic light?
Doesn't have a single Mall?
Doesn't have a single Cinema?
Doesn't have a single supermarket (Royal isn't even really a supermarket, just a neighborhood store)?
Doesn't even feel like a place with any government?
Doesn't have a single real recreational activity center?
Just a disorganized huge refuse dump with roasted dead bodies found on the streets from time to time?


Uyo was a small town that Efiks & Ibibios flocked from to Aba that was a bigger and more developed city in search of opportunities.

Looking at both Uyo and Aba now what does that tell you about leadership in the southeast? what is this obsession with Yoruba's? They are not the people causing underdevelopment in the Southeast.