🔥 The PDP’s Theatre of the Absurd: A Masterclass in Political Charlatanism 🔥
Let us surgically dissect PDP’s simulacrum of opposition—a Baudrillardian nightmare where simulated concern masks genuine malfeasance. While Otti constructs enduring legacies in brick and mortar, PDP peddles cardboard cutouts of accountability, engaging in what can only be described as epistemological violence against Abia’s progress. Their shameful farce unfolds across four acts of deliberate deception.
💸 Fiscal Illiteracy & Economic Sabotage
PDP’s “dwindling outcomes” narrative is neoliberal gaslighting at its most pernicious. They shriek about ₦75 billion in capital spending while willfully ignoring the concrete manifestations of that investment: 200 Primary Healthcare Centers and 7 General Hospitals rising from the soil like monuments to progress, a Level 3 civil servant now earning ₦88,000 monthly—triple the starvation wages of ₦30,000 under PDP’s kleptocratic reign—and an IGR surge from ₦1.7 billion/month to ₦4.65 billion/month, representing 200% growth without extortion. This isn’t fiscal management; it’s economic alchemy. Street translation cuts deeper: “PDP be like blind men dey shout ‘Where light?’ while Otti’s floodlights dey burn their corrupt eyelids! Dem no fit hide infrastructure for pocket!” 🔦
🕵️ The “Shadow Government” Farce: Treason in Cheap Clothing
PDP’s “shadow government” gambit isn’t opposition—it’s political cosplay with dangerous undertones. Otti’s administration rightly smacked down this constitutional aberration, recognizing it as a Trojan horse for instability. In a presidential system, such shadow structures are not opposition—they’re treason in embryo. Real opposition audits policies through legitimate channels; PDP stages kakistocratic pantomimes while Otti’s bulldozers reshape Abia’s physical and institutional infrastructure. Their “shadow” ain’t no Platonic realm of ideals—it’s a gutter of desperation where accountability goes to die.
📉 Debt Delusion & Economic Illiteracy
PDP’s ₦75 billion “debt accretion” lie is intellectual arson, a deliberate distortion of macroeconomic reality. The truth? Otti slashed domestic debt by 57.2%—the highest reduction in Nigeria per the Debt Management Office. The naira-value “increase” in external debt? Pure currency depreciation arithmetic (₦:$ rate collapsed from 460 to 1550), not new borrowing. Otti’s philosophy is Aristotelian in its clarity: “Borrow for INVESTMENT, not consumption.” Street truth exposes the absurdity: “PDP dey cry ‘debt!’ for money WEY their own past governors borrow! Na like thief wey report police say im stolen car dey move! Dem forget say exchange rate no be magic.” 🚓💨
🏗️ Project Denialism: When Reality Bites
PDP’s demand for “disaggregated data” on ₦75 billion capital projects is bad-faith theatre of the highest order. You don’t need spreadsheets when progress slaps you in the face: Aba and Umuahia water projects nearing completion, airports and stadiums rising from dereliction, ICT hubs fostering digital revolutions, and 67,000 verified civil servants drawing salaries—smashing PDP’s ghost-worker economy of 30,000. Otti’s mic drop resonates: “Even the BLIND know we perform.” PDP’s willful blindness? Pathological negationism—a refusal to acknowledge visible truth because it obliterates their relevance.
✨ Otti’s Praxis: The Antidote to Kakistocracy ✨
While PDP fetishizes stagnation, Otti engineers Schumpeterian creative destruction. His governance is a masterclass in labor over loot: implementing ₦70,000 minimum wage before the Federal Government, paying verified workers by the 28th like liturgical certainty. His technocratic rigor shines through initiatives like the Global Economic Advisory Council featuring Arunma Oteh. Most radically, he defies Nigeria’s rentier-state curse with an ironclad principle: “No borrowing for suya money—only CAPITAL.” Aristotle called politics the “master science.” Otti masters it; PDP masturbates in its ruins, confusing noise for substance.
💎 Conclusion: The People’s Verdict 💎
PDP’s “shadow” ain’t governance—it’s criminal negligence wearing opposition drag. Otti? A Hegelian world-spirit materializing in Umuahia, rebuilding what PDP’s kleptocratic reign shattered through sheer praxis. The evidence screams: When Otti spends ₦75 billion, roads rise, hospitals rise, wages rise. When PDP spent? Their bellies rose. 🤰 Abians have moved beyond PDP’s political necromancy. Otti delivers PRODUCTS; PDP peddles PERCEPTIONS. The revolution isn’t televised—it’s paved, paid, and palpable. Game over.
Dr Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
