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Uche Aguoru has written a long article, but unfortunately, the economics inside it is limping like a badly inflated tyre.
Title: “Governor Alex C. Otti, A Titleholder in Profligacy.”
Very dramatic.
But once you remove the insults, the argument collapses like wet akamu. 😂
Let us expose the lies systematically.
- The first fraud is the headline itself
Calling Alex Otti “titleholder in profligacy” because of one Q3 table is not economics. It is political theatre.
Development economics does not work by screenshot.
Public finance does not work by WhatsApp anger.
A budget implementation report is not a gossip sheet. It must be interpreted by budget code, expenditure classification, reporting period, inherited budget structure, cash release, and administrative responsibility.
But Uche Aguoru just saw figures, added emotion, sprinkled “corruption,” and started dancing. 😂
- “Otti spent ₦5.32bn on himself.” Lie number one
The line says running the governor’s office.
It does not say Alex Otti’s personal pocket.
It does not say Otti and family enjoyment account.
It does not say private residence feeding allowance.
The Governor’s Office is an administrative cost centre. It can include official operations, state coordination, executive bureaucracy, logistics, agencies, protocol, approvals, inherited obligations and running costs.
So when Uche Aguoru says Otti “spent it on himself and his family,” that is not analysis.
That is comedy with calculator. 😂😂😂
- “Security vote means Otti pocketed ₦2.8bn.” Lie number two
Security vote is not salary.
Security vote is not governor’s personal income.
Security vote is not “Otti has pocketed money.”
A man who claims to understand governance should know the difference between security expenditure and personal salary.
So linking “Otti said he does not take salary” with “security vote exists” is intellectual dishonesty.
That is like saying because a university has a security budget, the Vice-Chancellor has eaten all the money. 😂
Please, let economics breathe.
- The funniest self-contradiction: IGR
Uche Aguoru said Abia IGR dropped from ₦800m monthly to less than ₦600m monthly.
But the same table he is using shows Abia Q3 2023 IGR as ₦3.3bn.
Q3 is three months.
₦3.3bn divided by 3 months is about ₦1.1bn per month.
So where did “less than ₦600m monthly” come from?
From the same factory where political akamu is produced? 😂😂😂
This is why people should fear screenshots without arithmetic.
- Personnel cost argument: another manipulation
He says personnel cost fell from about ₦12bn to ₦4bn and then concludes that it proves 10,000 workers were sacked.
No sir.
A fall in reported personnel cost in a quarter can arise from payroll verification, payment timing, classification changes, arrears treatment, inherited distortions, wage bill clean-up, ghost-worker removal, or non-cash-backed budget lines.
You cannot jump from “personnel cost changed” to “therefore 10,000 legitimate workers were sacked.”
That is not economics.
That is political superstition. 😂
- The table itself exposes selective propaganda
Look at the comparison carefully.
It compares:
Abia Q3 2023 under Otti,
Ebonyi Q3 2023 under Nwifuru,
Enugu Q3 2023 under Mbah,
then Abia Q3 2022 under Ikpeazu.
Why this selective framing?
Why not compare full-year audited trends?
Why not compare Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4?
Why not compare inherited liabilities?
Why not compare capital-to-recurrent ratios over time?
Why not compare debt, arrears, unpaid pensions, contractor liabilities and decayed infrastructure?
Because once proper political economy enters the room, the propaganda begins to sweat. 😂
- “Ministry of Information equals propaganda.” Another cheap trick
The table says Ministry of Information.
But the propagandist renamed it “propaganda.”
Very clever.
By that logic, every government communication, public enlightenment, documentation, media briefing, public notice, civic messaging, investor communication and official information release is propaganda.
So if government communicates, it is propaganda.
If government is silent, it is hiding.
If projects are announced, it is media.
If projects are not announced, nothing is happening.
These people have already written their verdict before seeing evidence. 😂
- The airport and road insult is weak politics
They said Abia heard presidential media team was coming and started spreading stone base.
Wonderful.
If work is ongoing, they say it is staged.
If work is slow, they say it is abandoned.
If contractors appear, they say visitors are coming.
If contractors disappear, they say nothing is happening.
So in their political court, Otti is guilty whether he works or does not work.
That is not opposition.
That is emotional captivity. 😂
- “Otti did not conceptualise any project.” Lie number three
This is another lazy line.
Even if a project was inherited, completion is governance.
Even if a road existed before, reconstruction is governance.
Even if a public asset was abandoned, revival is governance.
Development economics is not about who first mentioned a project in a beer parlour. It is about financing, execution, delivery, maintenance and social impact.
A project abandoned for years is not an achievement until somebody funds it, executes it and delivers it.
So please, stop confusing “we once talked about it” with “we delivered it.” 😂
- The real political economy issue
Abia did not start in 2023.
Abia came into 2023 with unpaid pensions, salary distortions, infrastructure decay, abandoned assets, weak institutions, poor urban roads and serious governance trust deficit.
Any honest economist must account for inherited liabilities.
But Uche Aguoru wants to erase history, erase backlog, erase institutional decay, erase arrears, erase old obligations, and then use one quarter to shout “profligacy.”
That is not political economy.
That is opposition mathematics by candlelight. 😂😂😂
- Final verdict
Uche Aguoru’s article is loud.
It is sarcastic.
It is angry.
But economically, it is shallow.
He confused office expenditure with personal spending.
He confused security vote with salary.
He contradicted himself on IGR.
He converted Ministry of Information into “propaganda.”
He assumed personnel cost movement automatically means mass sack.
He ignored inherited liabilities.
He compared states without fiscal structure.
He turned one quarter into a corruption conviction.
That is not analysis.
That is screenshot economics.
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Abians deserve criticism, yes.
Abia government should be questioned, yes.
Every budget line should be interrogated, yes.
But please, let the interrogation be intelligent.
Because this one by Uche Aguoru is not economics.
It is political comedy wearing a budget report as agbada.
Nde akamu analysts, over to you. 😂😁😂
