The Grand Theatre of Selective Amnesia
In the bustling realm of Abia State, where the scent of fresh asphalt mingles with the hum of progress, a curious troupe of APC minions—brandishing the laughable banner of “Abia’s Best Interest Association”—has staged a theatrical demand for accountability. Their script? A manufactured outrage over ₦54 billion in school funds, a figure plucked from the ether with the precision of a blind archer . How touching, how richly ironic, that these custodians of decay—architects of 24 years of infrastructural genocide—now pose as fiscal watchdogs!
Act I: The Chorus of Hypocrisy
Let us marvel at the audacity of these recycled villains. Having presided over an era where Abia’s schools crumbled into ghost institutions and roads dissolved into mythical rivers of sludge, they now dare question a governor who actually builds things . While Otti’s administration lays 6.8 km of Port Harcourt Road and carves six-lane thoroughfares through Umuahia, the APC’s legacy is etched in potholes and phantom budgets. Their moral high ground? A swamp. Their credibility? Deader than the projects they never delivered.
Act II: The Evidence They Ignore
While the APC’s “Best Interest” clowns wail about “vanished funds,” Abians witness:
170 schools resurrected from ruin, roofs intact and desks actualized—not sketched on fraudulent spreadsheets.
Four gleaming primary health centers in Owerrinta, Amigbo, and beyond, where vaccines replace vermin.
11 rural roads stitching farms to markets, and a 1,000-hectare industrial park rising in Ukwa West—complete with a modular refinery .
Yet the APC squeals, “Where are the results?” Open your eyes, carrion birds! Otti builds functional schools, not Potemkin facades. He invests in children—like the 15-year-old tech wizard gifted $5,000—not in the pockets of cronies .
Act III: The Defection Farce
The pièce de résistance? Their spittle-flecked rejection of Otti’s rumored defection to APC: “He undermines Tinubu!” they cry , while clutching the ₦300 billion Tinubu’s reforms allegedly sent to Abia—funds they claim vanished into “insolvent LGAs” under their own 24-year watch . The sheer, unadulterated gall! They fear his competence would expose their chronic incapacity. “No vacancy till 2031?” A statement of fact, not aspiration. Abia has seen the alternative. It was twenty-four years long.
Act IV: The Ghost Schools of Ugwunagbo
Behold their magnum opus! After touring Ihie Community Primary School and Asa Umunka Primary School—monuments to APC’s 24-year reign of neglect—they have the temerity to weep over crumbling walls . Charity begins at home? Not in Isiala Ngwa South, Otti’s own LGA, where they claim decay is “alarming” . Yet mysteriously, no cameras capture these ruins. No before-and-after shots. Only phantom lamentations for phantom projects—a specialty honed over decades.
Finale: The Challenge They’ll Never Meet
To these mercenary moralists, we issue a dare: Name one project. Just one verifiable achievement your APC regimes delivered across all seventeen Local Governments in 24 years. Show us the roads. Parade the hospitals. Display the schools that aren’t crumbling relics of your rapacity . We await your evidence—though we know the archives hold only dust and deceit.
Curtain Call: The Beauty of Noise
Their press conferences? The buzzing of mosquitoes drunk on the stale blood of past misrule. Annoying? Certainly. Lethal? Only to their own carcass of credibility. For while they shriek about ₦54 billion, Otti’s symphony of progress crescendos: the percussion of piledrivers on Port Harcourt Road, the chorus of children in rebuilt classrooms, the defiant refrain: “No vacancy till 2031.”
Let them buzz. Let them fade. Abia marches forward, serenaded by the sweet music of promises kept.
Dr Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
