Mascot, Governance Is Serious Business — Not a Playground for Convenient Amnesia
Mascot Uzor Kalu’s latest outburst (“fantasy spending”, “fictional figures”, “economic roadmap without foundation”) is less an economic argument and more a revealing confession of how little he understands about modern public finance, state revenue modelling, medium-term expenditure frameworks, and the fiscal reforms currently reshaping Abia under Governor Alex Otti OFR.
Let us take Mascot line by line, fact by fact, and teach him—politely but decisively—that governance is not guesswork, not noise-making, and certainly not nostalgia for the years when his family treated Abia’s treasury like personal estate.
- “Abia can’t fund a ₦1 trillion budget” — Mascot Uzor Kalu
FACT: Abia already funded a ₦927 billion budget in 2025.
EVIDENCE: The Abia 2025 Budget Implementation Reports publicly released and verified by independent media.
LINK: BusinessDay, 15 Aug 2025:
https://businessday.ng/politics/article/abia-reports-record-igr-growth-under-otti/
Mascot pretends not to know that Abia’s monthly revenue has surged dramatically under Otti.
By Q3 2025, Abia’s total monthly inflow averaged ₦49 billion.
Mascot doesn’t understand that you cannot judge 2026 capacity with 2023 numbers.
- “There were no visible improvements in hospitals, water, roads, or electricity”
This line alone disqualifies Mascot from any economic conversation.
AProf Chukwuemeka Ifegwu Eke
