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I am a giver, husband, father and solutionist

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

For twenty years, "South East governance" was a phrase you said with a wince. The region produced grievance faster than it produced roads, and its leaders had perfected the art of blaming Abuja for failures that were manufactured locally.
Then the 2025 BudgIT State of States ranking landed. Anambra displaced Lagos as Nigeria's best-performing state on fiscal management. Lagos. Displaced. Enugu and Abia right behind it, Kwara breaking the top three for the first time.
The wince is gone. What replaced it is more complicated than a celebration.
Start with the spending, because that is where intention becomes evidence.
Abia put 77% of its total expenditure into capital projects, the highest ratio in the country. Anambra, Enugu and Ebonyi each cleared 70%. For a region whose defining feature was the gap between budget lines and actual tarmac, this is not a communiqué. It is a redirection of the entire fiscal posture.
And the standout is Enugu. Under Mbah, capital spending that once hovered around ₦30bn a year jumped past ₦200bn. Its IGR now covers 146% of its operating costs, meaning the state earns more than enough to run itself before a single naira of federal allocation arrives. BudgIT ranks it the Nigerian state most likely to survive without FAAC. Enugu, of all places.
Abia's turn is the one that should move you.
This is a state that was, within living memory, synonymous with unpaid salaries and refuse no one would collect. BudgIT called its 2025 showing one of the most "transformational fiscal stories" in the country, and made it the national leader in capital deployment.
Otti campaigned on competence against a machine that called him an outsider. The ledger, for once in Nigerian politics, has sided with the man who promised the boring thing and then did it.
And here is where the renaissance story usually ends. Warm, tidy, forwarded with three clapping emojis by people who have never set foot in Aba.
But you read this account for the paragraph the brochure leaves out. So consider what happened next, because it complicates everything above it.
The same Peter Mbah held up as the South East's governance exemplar defected from the PDP, the very party that fought his contested mandate all the way to the Supreme Court to keep him in office, and walked into the APC. Within hours of President Tinubu filing his nomination forms, Mbah was installed as Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, the ruling party's bloc of state chief executives.
The gavel did not come to him cleanly, and the manner of its arrival tells you what kind of transaction this was.
Twenty APC governors first passed a vote of no confidence in Hope Uzodimma, the Imo governor who held the chairmanship, citing financial impropriety. They removed him and installed Mbah in the same night's meeting. The Nigeria Governors Forum then issued a statement denying the meeting had happened at all. It had happened. Premium Times confirmed it with two governors who were in the room.
So in a single season, the South East's most celebrated reformer crossed the carpet, emptied the PDP's last stronghold in the region, and took command of the ruling party's governors. Governance excellence and political absorption, arriving in the same career, at the same time, in the same man.
This is the turn the rankings cannot perform for you.
Is the South East rising because reform finally took root in the soil? Or because, in the run-up to an election cycle, demonstrated performance has simply become the most valuable currency a governor can carry across the carpet to Abuja? The honest answer is that both are true at once, and "both" is the uncomfortable verdict, not the convenient one.

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

@HarmlessHQ @IamJUSTaMUD Is it🫩

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

@Nigeriangod_ I think it'll be safe if you tell the truth about Frank and his 1st wife. This would really help us not see you as a weird fellow

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

@IamCancer1 @Dee_9889 He cleared the air

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

8/8 takes notes. A party that cannot answer "who is in charge?" in April 2026 has no credible answer to "who should govern Abia?" in November 2027. In Abia, Alex Otti is watching two men fight over the key to a house they do not yet own. He is not worried.

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

1/8 On April 27, 2026, two of Abia's most powerful APC politicians posted on Facebook the same morning. Both thanked Tinubu. Both said he gave them the mandate to lead APC in Abia. Neither mentioned the other. The President said nothing. He rarely has to. 🧵

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

7/8 What reads as strategic ambiguity inside Aso Rock reads as leaderless chaos outside it. The ward chairmen don't know whose directive to follow. The aspirants can't fundraise without knowing whose structure to follow. Otti — who called the whole opposition "empty barrels" —

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

@omoluabi1sq I really thought you had something to say. The ambience, the sound and the intro all for another "old wives'fables"

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

He is not an exception to the Nigerian "culture". He is its most vivid illustration. The $35 was real. The CAF trophy — won in Aba, his city — was real. The ₦7.65 billion was real. The tragedy isn't that Nigeria produces men like Orji Uzor Kalu. The tragedy is that it needs to.

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

@OUKtweets turns 66 today. The honest birthday reflection is not a eulogy. It's not an insult either. It's something harder than both. 🧵

[ӨPΛЯΛ ӨF ЦMЦӨPΛЯΛ @Chidosqi]

His co-accused can be retried. Kalu cannot — he successfully argued double jeopardy. Same case. Same facts. One man faces court. The other chairs a Senate committee and tells us Tinubu will win 2027.