FACT-CHECK: DO NOT ATTRIBUTE TO GOVERNOR OTTI A ROAD HE NEVER CLAIMED TO HAVE FIXED
Public criticism must begin with one elementary question:
Did Governor Alex Otti or the Abia State Government ever claim that the specific Umuola-Egbelu community road had been reconstructed and completed?
The available public records provide no evidence of such a claim.
What appears in published project records is Umuola Road, Aba. There is also a separate Egbelu-Mbutu/Owerrinta Road in Isiala Ngwa South. These are not automatically the same as every road located within Umuola-Egbelu community. Governor Otti’s published project statement lists them as separate roads.
Therefore, the facts are simple:
The present administration has not been shown to have reconstructed the particular road being complained about.
The government has not been shown to have declared that particular road completed.
No evidence of a commissioning ceremony, project signboard, contract award or official completion statement for that specific road has been produced.
A neglected road can legitimately be brought to the government’s attention. Residents have every right to request its inclusion in future road projects.
But it is intellectually dishonest to present an unfixed road as evidence that a government’s completed project has failed—when the government never claimed to have fixed that particular road in the first place.
REQUESTING GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION IS ACCOUNTABILITY.
FALSELY PRESENTING AN UNEXECUTED PROJECT AS A FAILED OTTI PROJECT IS PROPAGANDA.
Let the exact road be identified, assessed and considered for intervention. But let nobody manufacture a government promise or project completion claim that cannot be proved.
VERDICT: NO VERIFIED EVIDENCE THAT GOVERNOR OTTI CLAIMED TO HAVE FIXED THE SPECIFIC UMUOLA-EGBELU COMMUNITY ROAD.
