Abia ThinkTank

DR ALEX OTTI: THE MODEL OF A LION HEART. Chief MacDonald Enwere The fragile desperation of some sponsored political drummer-boys in Abia State to invoke public opprobrium against the standing reputation and sweeping achievements of Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Chioma Otti, is not only amusing but irritating. For some time, these hackers have continued in their pedestrian fiction, petty malignancy, and delusional fantasy only to smear the supersoonic achievements of Dr Alex Otti.Such a display of hollowness and sheer demonstration of irrationality and emptiness should not be cheered at all. There should be a red line against such pathological…

WHEN MEN CHOOSE BLINDNESS: A SHORT HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT DENIAL From Ancient States to Osisioma NgwaHistory records a strange but recurring political disease: the refusal to see. Not because nothing exists, but because seeing would destroy a carefully built narrative. Across centuries and continents, political actors have chosen blindness to developmental efforts—sometimes out of rivalry, sometimes out of wounded pride, sometimes out of the simple fear that acknowledgment would elevate a rival.Abia State, today, is not exempt from this ancient habit. THE OLD STORY, RETOLDFrom Athens to Washington, from Singapore to Johannesburg, history shows that reform periods attract a peculiar…