Columns/Opinions/Letters

ABA FLOODING: PUTTING THE VIDEO IN PROPER PERSPECTIVE The circulating video appears to show temporary flooding after rainfall in a part of Aba. It deserves attention, but it should not be twisted into evidence that Governor Alex Otti’s infrastructure programme has failed. A short video cannot establish the intensity of the rainfall, how long the water remained, whether adjoining drains were blocked, or whether that location is already covered by ongoing drainage works. Governor Otti inherited a city whose roads, drains, canals and planning systems had suffered decades of neglect. Such structural damage cannot be corrected by resurfacing isolated streets.…

WHEN PROPAGANDA MEETS EVIDENCE: WHY OTTI’S OPPONENTS ARE NOW AFRAID OF AI 😂😂😂 The latest complaint is no longer that Governor Alex Otti is not working. It is now that those defending visible development are “hiding behind Otti.” What an intellectual surrender! First, nobody has claimed that Alex Otti is an LGA chairman. Otti is the Governor and chief coordinator of Abia’s development architecture. The elected chairmen of all 17 LGAs were inaugurated in November 2024 and charged to deliver effective governance at the grassroots. Therefore, discussing the relationship between the Governor and the councils is not “dragging Otti into…

THE COMMENTS DO NOT CHANGE THE FACTS The laughter, insults and mockery shown in these comments are not evidence. Nobody has disproved the central fact: Osusu Road was reconstructed and commissioned in 2021 under the previous administration. Governor Alex Otti, OFR, did not newly reconstruct the road. The circulating flood video may raise a legitimate drainage concern, and the responsible authorities should act. But it is dishonest to present the road as one of Otti’s newly reconstructed projects and then claim that his construction failed. A flood video does not rewrite history. Those shouting “bad governance,” “masterplanner” and “Aba looks…

OSUSU ROAD FLOODING: WHEN A VIDEO IS USED TO TELL THE WRONG STORY A video circulating online reportedly shows a flooded section of Osusu Road in Aba after rainfall on June 27, 2026. The pictures may show genuine surface flooding, but the political story attached to them is misleading, historically inaccurate and deliberately framed to deceive the public. Let us put the facts straight. Osusu Road is not one of the roads newly reconstructed by Governor Alex Otti, OFR. The road was reconstructed under the administration of former Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and officially commissioned in January 2021. Contemporary reports recorded…

🤣😂 TALES BY MOONLIGHT INDEED — THE ARGUMENT HAS FINALLY COLLAPSED UNDER ITS OWN NOISE! So because someone displayed allocation figures on a website, he has suddenly become the Auditor-General, Accountant-General and project inspector of Ohafia LGA? 🤣🤣 My brother, allocation is not the same thing as idle cash sitting inside a chairman’s bedroom! Local government funds cover salaries, pensions, primary healthcare, sanitation, education support, security, rural infrastructure, administration and other statutory obligations. But our “Grandmaster Psychic” has already concluded that nothing is happening because he has not personally commissioned a project in Abiriba. 😂 Abiriba is important, but Ohafia…

🤣🤣 THE CONFIDENCE IS LOUD, BUT THE LOGIC IS ON LEAVE! So because Governor Alex Otti is constructing roads, rebuilding schools and improving public infrastructure, Local Government Chairmen must now suspend their own responsibilities and hide behind the Governor’s achievements? Wonderful mathematics! 😂 You asked whether there is a single LGA project in Abiriba, but before anyone could answer, you had already written the conclusion, prosecuted the case and delivered judgment from your WhatsApp courtroom. Please calm down, Your Lordship! 🤣 The truth you are desperately running away from is simple: government is coordinated. The State Government and the 17…

ABIA’S LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE WORKING WITH THE STATE — ALLOCATION FIGURES ALONE DO NOT PROVE CORRUPTION The publication of monthly allocations to Abia’s 17 Local Government Areas is welcome. Transparency should never frighten a government that is working. However, it is misleading to display gross allocation figures and immediately conclude that the Local Government Chairmen are corrupt, ineffective or have done nothing. An allocation figure tells us how much was credited. It does not, by itself, tell us: How much went into salaries and personnel obligations; How much was committed to pensions and statutory responsibilities; How much funded primary healthcare,…