COMMENTARY
ABIA MUST HEAL: A FIERY APPEAL TO POLITICAL ARISTOCRATS TO LET GOVERNOR ALEX OTTI WORK
By Amaku Chinecherem Obama,
Moderator, The Elite Empire Show
Greetings, fellow Abians. I write today with a heavy heart and an unburdened conscience. This message is directed to the political aristocrats, power merchants, and party actors who have chosen to suffocate this administration with needless pressure, propaganda, and selfish tussles. For the sake of Abia and her people, let Governor Alex Chioma Otti be.
It is now glaring that the hypocritical reactions, influence wars, and desperate political maneuverings being orchestrated against this government are not acts of patriotism. They are calculated distractions, diverting attention, draining energy, wasting scarce resources, and slowing down the critical development process of our state. While you fight for relevance, Abians pay the price in insecurity, economic stagnation, and delayed progress.
Late Pope Francis warned against what he called a “disposable culture,” a society where human beings are treated like consumer goods, used and discarded. He reminded the world that humanity’s relationship with nature and power must foster harmony, not greed; service, not exploitation; compassion, not manipulation. Government, at its core, exists for one sacred purpose: the care of human lives and happiness not their destruction.
Your unending tussle for influence exposes Abians, especially women and children to renewed insecurity and uncertainty. Their lives must come first. Always.
Have we forgotten what Abia has endured?
We have walked through valleys of blood and tears from the dark era of notorious terror gangs like “Osis-ka-Nkwu,” when criminals flooded our lands with innocent blood; when young girls and married women were raped; when children were kidnapped from classrooms and murdered if ransom demands were unmet. It took the anguished cry of a wailing mother to provoke then-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to deploy the military and restore sanity to our state.
Have we forgotten civil and public servants who died silently from hunger and starvation, victims of unpaid salaries and a cruel wage system? Or the horror of Operation Gbawe Butewe, a massacre that swallowed countless Abian lives, orphaned children, and robbed mothers of their sons and daughters?
Those wounds sparked global outrage. They ignited riots in schools like Boys Technical College (BTC), Eziama High School, Wilcox, and many others. Names may have changed, but history has not. Our hearts still bleed.
We remember floods that swallowed homes and businesses, turning rich men and women into beggars overnight. We remember impassable roads, collapsed livelihoods, and communities abandoned to fate. We remember an educational system crippled by endless strikes, decaying infrastructure, and lost standards, stealing skills, dreams, and hope from an entire generation.
Why? Because some people saw power not as service, but as a shortcut to obscene wealth for themselves and their children.
Enough.
Give Governor Alex Chioma Otti the space to heal our land.
Give him the space to restore what was lost.
Give him the space to wipe away our grief with the gentle strength of humanitarian leadership.
History teaches us a timeless truth: Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent upheaval inevitable. And the people, when pushed to the wall, will always claim their right. For injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Let it be known: We love Governor Alex Chioma Otti.
Abians love this administration.
This government represents one of the finest opportunities Abia has ever had to reset, rebuild, and rise.
I mean no disrespect. In this humble but resolute writing, I have spoken the minds and pains of Abians. This message comes from The Elite Empire Show.
I remain now and always:
Your Humble Moderator,
Amaku Chinecherem Obama.