Abia Infrastructure Mandate Celebrates with Abians and Dr. Alex Otti on Two years of Infrastructure Blitz.
When Abia Infrastructure Mandate started as a group back in 2022, our state, Abia was a monumental reproach brought about by the triumvirate of irresponsible and corrupt leadership of Orji Uzo Kalu, Theodore Ahamefula Orji, and Okezie Victor Ikpeazu that together spanned through a 24 humpty dumpty years of corruption, ineptitude, neglect, poor leadership, intellectual emptiness and gross leadership irresponsibility.
But the arrival of Dr. Alex Otti in 2023 induced a positive change in infrastructure mantra, ethical reorientation, program driven leadership, development orientation etcetera. Indeed, our reproach has today turned to ovation around the country.
No more jests or skits about Abia of rotten cities, dirty environment, cesspit of garbage heaps, garbage jaunt, impassable roads, stone age humanity, hopelessly abused citizens and state littered with white elephant projects like the abandoned Igurube government House that served as conduit pipe and has remained uncompleted after 16 years of its ground breaking.
In Alex Otti, a Daniel finally came to judgment and the people can today rejoice and celebrate in style again. Aba is being reinvented with scenic landscapes of rehabilitated and reconstructed roads infrastructure, from Portharcourt Road to Ogbor Hill, Asa road, Ohanku, Ngwa, Obohia, Erondu, Faulks, Abayi to Osisioma flyover, Osisioma industrial layout to Aba GRA, all have turned to scenic urban beauty with paved city layouts.
Beyond the ascerbic nature of opposition skepticism, it is one thing to have the money to spend and quite another to have the will to allow that money to make the desired impact. In Alex Otti, there’s both the will and the intentionality to make the available resources to drive projects and development. That is why some of us that knew where we came from will not be bordered at all being labeled praisesingers of The New Abia of Alex Otti.
Our only source of excitement will remain the equitable distribution of infrastructure around the state that reboots Aba in Abia South, renews Umuahia urban in Abia Central and reticulates motorable roads in the mostly cutoff local governments in Abia North in an unprecedented spate of caterpillar revolution.
During the lost years of the locusts in the state, we only watched the caterpillar convoys passing through Umuahia and Aba and heading towards neighboring states. Today Abia State has become one of the destinations of those convoys and someone is not happy that we are celebrating Alex Otti. No please, this is party time and the proper time to dance azonto. We won’t be pilloried or stoned for dancing azonto with Alex Otti like some politicians did with Ikpeazu two years ago with nothing to show.
Two years of Alex Otti’s government is worth celebrating for crying out loud. Congratulations to Abians and the miracle worker, Dr. Alex Chioma Otti for making the impossible achievable.
Dr. Engr Odo Ijere
Convener Abia Infrastructure Mandate.
