EMEMANKA ASKED QUESTIONS — ANSWER THEM, DON’T ABUSE HIM
The attempt to ridicule Onyebuchi Ememanka for raising questions about the emerging political rhetoric in Abia misses the real issue. If his argument is wrong, answer it with facts. Calling him names does not invalidate the questions he raised.
More importantly, the suggestion that Governor Alex Otti has somehow neglected or shown hostility toward Ngwa communities is difficult to reconcile with the documented project record.
Under Otti, the government has commissioned and undertaken major infrastructure projects in Aba and the wider Ngwa axis. In June 2025 alone, 14 roads were commissioned across Aba and its environs, including Umuode Road, Bakassi Road, Asa Road, Market Road, Tenant Road, Cameroun Road, Clifford Road and others.
The reconstructed 6.7-kilometre Port Harcourt Road and several adjoining Aba roads were subsequently commissioned in October 2025.
In Isiala Ngwa South, the administration commissioned the 8.3-kilometre Isieketa–Obikabia Road and a rehabilitated Primary Healthcare Centre at Owerinta.
In Obingwa and Ukwa East, the government flagged off the 12.6-kilometre Ohanze–Ntighauzo–Obete–Umuoha–Oberete–Akirika Obu Road, a project intended to connect several communities and facilitate movement of agricultural produce into Aba.
At Okpuala Ngwa, the government commenced reconstruction of the historic 100-bed General Hospital, while its programme also included road and health projects in that axis.
And in Ukwa West, the administration restored electricity to 33 communities after what the state government described as nine years without supply.
These are concrete projects, not statements about ancestry or political entitlement.
So when Ememanka questions rhetoric that appears to divide Abia into ethnic political camps, the appropriate response is not abuse. The proper debate is whether political mobilisation should be based primarily on clan identity or on measurable governance outcomes.
Ngwa people do not need anyone to manufacture a quarrel between them and Governor Otti. Roads, hospitals, electricity, water projects and the rebuilding of Aba are matters that citizens can see, interrogate and judge for themselves.
No community should be taken for granted, and no politician should be beyond scrutiny. But neither should genuine development in Ngwa land be erased merely because an election is approaching.
If the argument is that Otti does not care about Ngwa people, then let the argument confront the record.
And if Ememanka has raised uncomfortable questions, answer the questions.
Abia deserves a contest of facts, programmes and records — not a competition in insults.
