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An Open Letter To Our Incoming Governor - ALEX OTTI by SonOfEl(m): 6:50am On May 16, 2023
Deede Mmamma o...,

Congratulations on your indisputable victory at the just concluded gubernatorial election in Abia State. We Abians are proud to say you are our very own, a technocrat extraordinaire with a passion for human and capital development.

Abia State, with all its promises, is on the trenches. Thanks to the crop of mediocre governor's we have had. Abians initially gave each incoming leader a benefit of doubt (despite knowing how they rigged their way into the coffers of the state) just as the late PDP President Yaradua was given in 2007. While history will be kind to Yaradua, it's not the case with these PDP governors.

Now the mantle of Leadership has been handed down to you by the good people (and residents) of Abia State, do not disappoint us. Abia State may be the 3rd least poverty stricken state in Nigeria (based on NBS 2022 MPI Statistics), it only looks good ON PAPER. Abia today as you know is a Shadow of itself. Abia State is naked and neglected. If the FG neglects us, should the State government neglects its own people?

Remember the enviable footprints of our past leaders MICHAEL OKPARA (Premier of Former Eastern region) and SAM MBAKWE (Governor of Old Imo State) and make your own indelible print in the positive sands of time. Abia State isn't short of sons and daughters who are competent enough to drive development in the state with you. They are everywhere. Engage them and ignore charlatans.

Apart from the monthly Federal Allocation, plug the leakages that is rife in our other sources of revenue:

1. Aba Market and Industrial cluster
2. 13% derivation from NDDC

Also, see the creating more revenue channels through:
1. Tourism (Azumini blue river, War Museum, Aro Ibini Ukpabi shrine, etc)
2. Sports (Enyimba FC, Nigeria's most successful football club and Abia Warriors FC)

Remember Abia State needs infrastructural renewal. As a technocrat with a knack for wooing investors (as you did in Diamond bank), create a public-private partnership for building long lasting roads, bridges and a befitting seaport (Obuaku Seaport Project). We can reinvent Abia to be the mecca of industrialization in Africa with your leadership.

Keep away from charlatans, be diplomatic and compassionate in your discourse with pro-biafrans (MASSOB, IPOB, BZM, etc). Show them real development and welfare in order to convince and not to coerce them into building a new Abia State of Nigeria.

As the CSO of the state, arrest troublemakers who hide under agitations. Arrest criminals who bring disrepute to the state. Lastly, SALARIES OF CIVIL SERVANTS MUST BE PAID IN FULL. You have done it before in the private sector, you can do it again in the public sector.

Yagaziere gi deede'm. I am looking Forward to see you shine for Ndi Abia State.

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Re: An Open Letter To Our Incoming Governor - ALEX OTTI by Nairalander248: 7:43am On May 16, 2023
Okay. I will put all these into consideration...

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