OBINNA ORIAKU SHOULD STOP CONFUSING NOISE FOR DATA
Since he asked people to “speak to the facts,” let us school him properly.
- Bus terminal is not manhole politics.
A modern transport terminal is urban infrastructure. It improves movement, order, safety, commerce and city planning. If he cannot distinguish between a manhole cover and a transport system, that is not criticism. That is confusion. - Twenty electric buses delivered is not failure.
It is called phased delivery. Serious public transport systems are rolled out in batches, tested, charged, deployed, maintained and expanded. Only a desperate opposition will call a first phase a scandal simply because the remaining phases are still in process. - “I initiated it” is not the same as “I delivered it.”
Anybody can sign memos, attend meetings, announce World Bank programmes and take photographs. Governance is not initiation ceremony. The real question is: what did the ordinary Abian see on the ground after all the noise? - SFTAS did not belong to one commissioner.
It was a national World Bank-supported transparency programme involving many states. To package it as one man’s personal achievement is political inflation. - Automation without public impact is not a trophy.
If biometric capture, sub-treasury closure and automation solved the system, why did Abians still vote out that government? Why were arrears, pensions, poor infrastructure and broken public confidence still the dominant story? - You cannot praise Enugu for using CCCC and attack Abia for using competent contractors.
Today you celebrate Enugu for hiring a major Chinese contractor. Yesterday you attacked Abia for using contractors with special skills. Which one is your principle? Competence is good in Enugu but bad in Abia? - Comparing states without context is lazy analysis.
Every road has its own terrain, drainage challenge, design, width, compensation issues, soil condition, urban pressure and engineering requirement. One kilometre is not always equal to another kilometre. Serious people know this. - The people have already marked your script.
Abians heard all these grammar before 2023. They heard excuses. They heard radio defence. They heard “we initiated.” They heard “we planned.” Then they looked at their roads, schools, hospitals, salaries, pensions and cities — and retired the old order.
So please, stop recycling tired arguments.
Abia is not asking who initiated paperwork.
Abia is asking who is delivering visible work.
Abia is not returning to Egypt because one former commissioner is missing the microphone.
Performance will always defeat propaganda.
