Politics

THE POLITICS OF BAIT AND CAMERA ANGLES: How Click-Chasing Content Creators Mistook Governance for a Photo Contest It takes a special kind of unseriousness to reduce governance to a scavenger hunt. The now-circulating poster daring the public to “name five standard projects completed by Governor Otti” — with a cash prize dangling like influencer bait — is not accountability. It is content creation masquerading as civic engagement.This is not a policy audit. It is not investigative journalism. It is the politics of thumbnails, hashtags, and monetised outrage — designed to rubbish governance by converting serious public discourse into a street…

THE LABOUR QUESTIONWhy Philosophy, History, and Political Reality Explain Alex Otti’s Choice to Stay Politics is not gossip; it is philosophy in motion. And when Governor Alex C. Otti insists on remaining in the Labour Party, despite relentless rumours of defection, he is not merely making a partisan choice—he is aligning with a long and global tradition in political thought: that institutions matter more than convenience.This moment in Abia politics is not new. History has seen it before—locally and internationally—whenever reform-minded leaders confront pressure to abandon difficult platforms for seemingly easier paths. THE PHILOSOPHY: POLITICS AS COMMITMENT, NOT ESCAPE Political…

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING How Manufactured Scandals Failed to Stop a Reforming Government in AbiaBy any serious measure, the loudest noise around Abia today is not corruption—it is resistance to change. What has played out in recent months is a familiar Nigerian script: when reform begins to bite, propaganda begins to scream. Governor Alex C. Otti has become the target of a coordinated misinformation industry, one that thrives on fake quotes, invented directives, recycled rumours, and outright fabrications. Yet, when the dust settles, one truth remains stubborn: the scandals exist mostly online; governance exists on ground. THE POLITICS OF FABRICATIONFrom…

THE THREE MUSKETEERS OF ABIA POLITICS How Not to Govern a StateBy any stretch of irony, Abia State has seen its own version of The Three Musketeers—not the gallant defenders of crown and country, but three former governors who mastered a different art: how not to govern.Like Alexandre Dumas’ famous trio, they were bound by a slogan. Not “All for one, one for all,” but rather: “All for self, budget for none.”For years, Abia was governed as a stage play—loud speeches, colourful press releases, endless political choreography—while infrastructure decayed, salaries staggered, and public finance became an abstract concept known only…