Abia ThinkTank

MY VOTES WON’T BE STOLEN AGAIN IN OBINGWA, SAYS GOVERNOR OTTI ...Stakeholders Pledge Total Support for His Re-election ...As Governor Recounts His Early Upbringing in Obingwa By Ebere Uzoukwa, PhD It was a memorable homecoming for Governor Alex Chioma Otti, OFR, on Thursday, November 12, 2026, as he stormed Obingwa East, popularly known as Agalaba, for the Labour Party Governorship Campaign Rally. At Ntighauzor South Primary School, both Governor Otti and stakeholders from Obingwa East acknowledged that the votes freely given to him by the people in the 2015 and 2019 governorship elections were stolen, thus denying him the opportunity…

EMOTIONALITY: TIME AFTER TIME The Rape of Abia, the Silence of Twenty-Four Years, and the Man Who Heard Her Cries By AProf Chukwuemeka Ifegwu EkePolitical Economist | University of Abuja There are songs that entertain the ears, songs that excite the imagination, and songs that penetrate the most carefully guarded chambers of the human heart. And then there are those extraordinary musical compositions that transcend their original intentions, escape the geographical limitations of their composers, and become the emotional vocabulary of generations. One such composition is Time After Time. In 1983, American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper, working with musician Rob Hyman,…

THE MATHEMATICS OF POLITICAL DEFEAT: WHY 2027 MAY HAVE BEEN DECIDED BEFORE THE BALLOT By AProf Chukwuemeka Ifegwu EkeDepartment of Economics, University of Abuja There is something profoundly fascinating about the mathematics of political defeat. It is that curious branch of political arithmetic in which the loudest contestants sometimes possess the weakest electoral equations, the most enthusiastic critics frequently mistake indignation for strategy, and those who mistake political visibility for popular legitimacy discover, rather painfully, that democracy does not award marks for noise. I have followed the evolving political conversation in Abia State with considerable intellectual interest, particularly Governor Alex…