What I find very comforting is that everyone, both friend and foe, both faithfuls and the opposition, converge on the opinion that Governor Alex Otti, has done well for Abia people. Our people say that you don’t need a mirror to see what is tied to the wrist. After admitting the first fact, one or two might raise a counter on the basis of the fiscal inflow into the state. The argument is usually that Otti receives many times more than what the previous goverments recieved.
Okay. Let us accept the counter. But, the truth is that he has judiciously ploughed back that excess into Abia. He has created a difference and it is very clear. He didn’t have to share it to the power barons as it was the case in the past. No cabal diverted a huge sum for themselves. No emergency millionaires and emergency philanthropists have emerged. Nobody has been cleared out of the way (murdered) to pave way for monies to be siphoned. There are no alternate Governors and alternate power cartel. The buck stops on Otti’s table and he has applied the wisdom of an economist to allocate scarse resources.
Oh, yes! Abia is better under Governor Otti. Both man and spirits are testifying to this truth. I love to hear that first phrase before the subordinating phrase. And the joy is that everyone is testifying to it. I refuse to defend with the logic of the time value of money. I insist that Otti has shown class and taste and has deployed money to give Abians the best. When I see the large-scale rebuilding of the government infrastructure, the new-look Micheal Okpara Auditorium, the new-look SSG building, the new Governor’s office and Governor’s lodge under construction, I feel satisfied. Not to talk of the roads and other public infrastructure.
When I see the new-look Umuahia Capital City, the new-look Aba City, then I feel happy and satisfied that Abia resources are being very well utilised. The old proverb captures it all: You don’t need a mirror to see what is on the wrist. If only the opposition can appreciate the immutable law of change, the constant flux, then they would realise that the Otti phenomenon is just a transmutation of the law. Otti is therefore a change-agent, destiny’s emmissary, posterity’s handy-man.
Truth again is that this handy-man understands his commission. He understands his mission and he is intentional about the brief from the invisible forces of change.
The Otti phenomenon has shown me that our people are truly men of good conscience. They know the truth. They acknowledge the truth of Abia’s progress in the hand of Otti. The open denials and counters are simply politics. They examplify the dirty nature of politics… a game where speaking the opposite or speaking from the two sides of the mouth is the norm.Thankyou my people for that open confession about Abia’s progress and transition.
