Alex Otti as a political 419ner

By Madubuko Hart

It has become obvious that the charade governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, has been making promises upon promises in his continuous efforts to mislead the people of the state.
As if there is such a thing going on in the state, he recently said that he would abolish multiple taxation in the state if he is voted into power. But the truth is that Governor Theodore Orji-led government of the state is innocent of all the mudslingings from Otti against him.
If Orji were wicked as Otti had made many people to believe in his brigandage called campaign, Otti would have been on the run in Abia State by now, hence he should be praising Governor Orji instead of castigate an innocent man because of the lucre for power.
From the same Ubakala in Umuahia where Otti had gone to address party supporters during his campaign tour of Bende and Umuahia South Local Government Areas of the state and showed his utter hatred for Orji, was from where news filtered into the air later that both traders, market men and women, artisans, transporters, industrialists and other business concerns, said that Governor Orji is the best and that Otti was making noise that they were being over-taxed.
What a better way to become a political 419ner if not the lies by Otti that businesses are particularly affected in Aba and Umuahia, for who knows what Otti was talking about. He should name any teacher in the state that said he or she is being owed salary in the state before talking trash that salaries of teachers are withheld in the state.
When was Otti employed by the Abia State Government to be its auditor before lying himself badly that arrears of pensioners and teachers’ salaries are owed? We have in other articles informed the world that Otti is running issue-baseless campaign just to score cheap publicity; but he is doomed and he knows about this. This is the major reason he is biting left, right and centre like an entrapped snake.
His boast that he would take over power by May 29 this year is one of his numerous tactics in his continuous ways to be milking his donors he has been sulking dry. Otti is a man that has been gasping for breathe knowing that Ndi-Abia have rejected him woefully because he is not transparent at all.
Imagine a man like that came through the APGA’s backdoor and hijacked the party and divided it abysmally. This is the character of a man who wants to rule Abia State? It is laughable when one reads or hears Otti saying that he will do this or that come May 29,2015.
Which administration was he talking about? Otti continues to lie that he was going to deploy “his international connection and exposure in attracting investment to the state”. This is a man who has not helped his impoverished siblings making such frivolous promises. If he had any connection, let alone, international connections, he would not have allowed his siblings to be roaming the streets poor.
Otti continues to lie, saying this time that he will transform Umuahia, Aba and Ohafia. How can a man who is still fighting a pedigree problem know his left from right? The truth is that Governor Orji has fulfilled all his electioneering campaign promises and stands tall to boast that he has governed Abia State according to his conscience. The likes of Otti are political 419ners.
.Hart writes from Lagos