GOV ALEX OTTI’s GOVT OF LIES AND PROPAGANDA- How Abia Is Being Run as a Propaganda Govt of Deception
*GOV ALEX OTTI’s GOVT OF LIES AND PROPAGANDA- How Abia Is Being Run as a Propaganda Govt of Deception* _[Dr Ope Banwo, Mayor Of Fadeyi and Founder, Naija Lives Matter calls out Gov Alex Otti and his team of Social Media Propagandists]_
Ore mi, you know I am not from Abia. I am from Ogun State—born and bred in Lagos. And trust me, we in Ogun already have our hands full dealing with our own despotic, incompetent, and vengeful Governor Dapo Abiodun—the one who seems more interested in jailing truth tellers like Special Adviser Justadetoun than fixing the state.
But this daily noise about Governor Alex Otti is starting to become unbearable in a nation desperately searching for just one good man in an ocean of underperforming governors.
The funny thing is, I was initially misled too. Those propaganda videos were flying everywhere, and I was preparing a full white-robe rant to praise the man and give him his flowers. After all, I was part of the Obidient movement in 2023. I know how hard people hustled for Peter Obi and Labour, and Otti ended up being the only governor from that wave.
Naturally, I want Alex Otti to succeed. Even though I am no longer obedient to anybody, I still want him to prove that better leadership is possible. He comes from that corporate executive class we all hoped would bring competence into governance. So you can imagine my shock when I started speaking to people actually living in Abia to verify the “miracles” I was about to celebrate.
It turns out many of those messianic achievement videos are either outright false or wildly exaggerated. My man is still learning the art of hyperbole.
Omo, it is one thing to lie. We are used to that. We live in Muguland. Even our supposedly pious Buhari had a whole “Lie Mohammed” machinery. So we understand political spin. But when you start comparing yourself to governors like Babajide Sanwo-Olu and won’t let us rest with exaggerated claims, then it becomes necessary to address you publicly.
What Governor Alex Otti’s media machine is doing has moved beyond public relations. This is governance-by-propaganda—a government behaving like a content studio, measuring success in likes, retweets, and WhatsApp forwards.
Every week, an army of social media warriors drops a fresh “ABIA IS GONE!” post—as if Abia relocated to Switzerland overnight.
We hear:
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“Abia has disconnected from the national grid!”
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“No blackout in Aba or Umuahia!”
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“Biogas is powering communities!”
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“Free healthcare for every citizen above 60 till death!”
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“Electric vehicles everywhere!”
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“All roads are tarred!”
Omo, when did Superman or Jesus become governor of Abia and we missed it? Se won fi iro se yin ni?
At this rate, Abia is no longer a state. It is a motivational poster.
Now let us separate truth from spin.
Before writing this, I spoke to real Abians actually living there—not people tweeting from London.
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Electricity – Real progress stretched into fairy tale
Yes, Aba’s ring-fenced power arrangement is real. It involves Geometric/Aba Power and covers a defined portion of the state.
But propaganda has transformed “Aba ring-fence” into “Abia has achieved power independence.”
That is like fixing your living room generator and announcing the entire estate now has uninterrupted electricity.
We are told, “If you are looking for blackout, you won’t find it in Aba or Umuahia.”
Really? So power is now 24/7 statewide?
Even the power company itself has announced disruptions before. So this “Abia never goes dark” narrative is not a fact—it is marketing. And slogans do not keep lights on.
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“Abia is the first state to take over electricity regulation”
Abia did assume intrastate electricity regulatory control. That is a legitimate policy step.
But “first in Nigeria”? That is where propaganda creeps in. Other states—including Lagos—had moved in that direction earlier.
Why the compulsive need to attach “first” to everything? Is governance now a primary school competition?
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Biogas powering communities
The videos look inspiring. The language is beautiful. The tone is energetic.
But a pilot announcement is not the same thing as proven, measurable community power supply.
Nigeria is not short of launches. We have had many governors who could commission projects but not sustain them. Remember Aregbesola in Osun—grand announcements, but workers went unpaid for years.
If biogas is already powering communities, show us numbers: sites, output, scale, uptime, cost.
When I asked staff members living in Abia about this biogas revolution, they looked at me like I was speaking Greek.
Ordinary citizens do not even know what is being claimed, let alone experience it.
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“Free healthcare for everyone above 60 till death”
This one is classic propaganda inflation.
A policy of that magnitude does not arrive via a random viral video. It requires legislation, budget allocation, hospital circulars, drug supply frameworks, implementation guidelines, and formal rollout.
Instead, we get a trending claim… and silence.
And the government does not debunk it either.
If it trends, they enjoy the praise.
If it is false, they pretend they never saw it.
That is not transparency. That is manipulation.
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Electric buses and “all roads tarred”
Yes, I am told electric buses exist. That is commendable.
But “we introduced some buses” becomes “electric vehicles are operating everywhere,” as if Abia suddenly became Norway.
Electric buses have been running in Lagos for years.
Then comes the comedy: “All roads are tarred.”
All? Every single one? Including farm roads and forgotten rural paths?
At that point, governance becomes stand-up comedy.
The Real Problem: A PR Republic. The issue is not that Abia has done nothing. The issue is the inflation of limited achievements into statewide miracles—and the drowning of genuine criticism with influencers and hashtags.
A serious government does not need to exaggerate. Results speak.
But when governance becomes branding, everything becomes “historic,” “unprecedented,” “a revolution.”
Meanwhile, citizens are still asking basic questions about affordability, stability, and service delivery.
The most dangerous leadership style is not one that struggles and admits it.
It is one that struggles and hires content creators to rename struggle as “acceleration.”
My Challenge to Governor Otti: Stop marketing Abia like a digital product launch. Govern it like a state.
If the Aba ring-fence works, expand and stabilize it.
If biogas is real, publish measurable data.
If free healthcare exists, publish the policy instrument.
If roads are completed, release a project map with timelines.
Budgets are not captions.
Governance is not Instagram.
Citizens are not fools.
And please, stop comparing yourself to Lagos. Leave Sanwo-Olu alone and face your front.
Abia people deserve electricity, not excitement.
Hospitals, not hashtags.
Roads, not reels.
Abia has not “gone” anywhere.
But truth is being pushed into hiding—and that darkness is far more dangerous than any blackout.
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Good morning Mayor of Fadeyi, our National and Director, @Dr Ope Banwo .
First and foremost Happy Valentine eith lots of 💕💕💕
On the article above GOV ALEX OTTI’s GOVT OF LIES AND PROPAGANDA, I wish to respond from my own position, first as a person living inside Abia since 1989, secondly as an Abian, thirdly as a principal agent to the electioneering campaigns, strategies and actions of 2023 elections that brought in Dr. Alex Otti which said “shii-shii we no dey give , we no dey take”; fourthly as an encourager of the present administration by participations and words of advice and finally as an Obidient which I am still.
To the title of the write-up , I say capital NOOOOO.
The administration of Alex Otti is not running any propaganda or lies machinery or mercenary group. The governed are doing so out of selfless passions. The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, I know, hardly speaks except on vital or critical communiques of essential breaking news of government schedules. The head of the media team, too I know and we had hardly been hearing from his stable. Everyone is busy trying to be relevant in the New Abia Project we helped to hoist.
You could see in Naija Lives Matter_Abia whatsapp group the pictures which Inoersonally took from the stands of Enyimba International Stadium when the governor was hosted in a civic reception on January 30, 2026. The crowd was hugely ecstatic and very organic. I was there too. I was not paid. Infact I paid for the transports to and fro, and the light refreshment of a handful of members of Naija Lives Matter_ Aba North and South LGAs, Unified Revenue Agents Welfare Association, Aba Zone; members of Obi-Datti 2023 (now Obidient Coalition for Good Governance, OCGC, Aba Zone and Abia Tricycle Riders Co-operatives (ATRICOOPS), Aba Zone. I did these because they were original, organic and unbiased in their supports for what is happening in Abia State, under the government of Dr. Alex Chioma Otti. The mass turn-out of overjoyed people were the propaganda and lies machinery of Alex Otti, not Dr. Alex Chioma Lazarus Otti himself. They were paid by what they have in 33 months seen Dr. Alex Otti addressed in the rot that had been Abia State. So if the daily noise about Dr. Alex Otti has started becoming unbearable, it’s not Alex Otti nor his executives making the noise. Not the LGA executive mayors or chairmen (many who are too busy working than to speak), nor are the noises coming from his administration officials who are equally too engaged trying to meet standards and milestones or risked being ridiculed by the achievement of their peers in other MDAs.
The Noises are coming from electorates population who had been paid timely salaries and most their accumulated salary arrears, gratyities and oensions. Something they hadn’t seen nor experienced in 24 years they had been robbed, marooned, cob-webbed, threatened, marginalized, disillusioned; in fact given all sorts of worst treatments for twenty four years by previous administrations who ate up whatever us obtainable from the central government.
The people are actually seeing (60- 75%) of abandoned schools retrofitted. Pupils who used to sit on the ground and get soaked by rains from leaking roof or outright lack of any roof now saw colourful beautiful lockers and seats. Not wooden bench made from Melina trees). In fact the Naija Lives Matter_Abia made videos of the endangered schools and made aggressive clarion calls of representations through local grassroot mobilization structures, whatsapp groups, government functionaries, or direct contact with the relavanr MDAs for the amelioration of the schools and pupils, and health centers. These calls were promptly answered .
Roads and Streets: More than 60% of vital access roads that used to be waterlogged, death traps, and security flashpoints have been reaired, upgraded and recommussioned into use. Even streets of former, then serving commissioners, and roads leading to the village of former, immediate seating governor that were swimming pools for large tadpoles and marine snakes, as well as hot-posts for robbin hoods are now tarred, clearly marked traffic guide lines and adorned with functional solar street lights spanning over 10 km of roads, or 60 kilometers for Umuahia through Ohafia to Arochukwu.
The nights where marauders were champions are very, very, very bright and calm these days. Gun shots at odd and quiet hours are no longer heard. Perhaps the musketeers have all ran to North West, North East and North Central or elsewhere. The era of unknown gunmen have eusappeared in Abia State. Come and verify. Nights life has returned to Abia State of Nigeria , under the governance of Dr. Alex Otti.
But if you ask me, I will say Naija Lives Matter_Abia partnered with the administration (even , though the administration is not rewarding us, or showing commensurate appreciation, although they acknowledge we do exist. ) Our contributions remain unabated and still noted within government circles as we check excesses or abuses , because Abians lives matter to us
Naija Lives Matter got more than 2000 youths and individuals involved in e-ticket vending, enforcement and against obstructions and/or non-compliances of various sorts. The current federal government atands on road taxes will affect over 80 percent of these youths. We’re planning how to re-engage them. Many if them are students of polytechnics and ither higher institutions and are training thenselves from the meagre proceeds of these endeavours.
We recommended over 100 Abia elders to the state-run ASEPA to help make a living from road sweeping, and other paid environmental sanitation services. Aba, Umuahia and Ohafia zones of Abia State are hygienic looking and very neat. Aba especially is very, very clean. Naija Lives Matter_Abia was monitoring and reporting to the office of DGM Asepa, Aba Zone and DG Umuahia, and they responded superbly in terms cleaning, supervising, enforcing and treating residents with esteamed civility.
Naija Lives Matter_Abia was involved in monitoring operations of government agencies and reporting compromises in real time to the Dr. Alex Otti team of executives. We thank God and appreciate the governor for prompt responses without risking us, or risking our whistleblowing. Though we’re labelled now as petition writers by some officials who are part of the Gov.Akex Otti imports of special advisers, senior special assistanrs and commissioners, we are not cowed. We are determined to help blow the bugle, sound the twitters or beckon on the dull rather, than for any exaulted positions. NLM_Abia ran independent non-profit monitoring on the state managed Abia Harmonized Taskforce (AHTF), ASTOPU and ASEPA enforcement operatives But we still put our trust on God for a recognition some day.
Naija Lives Matter drafted a 7-points action programme for the governor prior and after his inauguration. The pdf of the document is still available for your references. We were not part of his inauguration plans nor any promissory made. We worked to make real our promises for those we encountered for the New Nigeria and New Abia (NN&NA) Project, and the governor keyed in, we wouldn’t say stole our laudable ideas of transparent financial appropriations and management, deployment of technology into IGR and fiscal operations, establishing a waste to wealth program, and an aggressive exportable internal electricity generation for electricity Power sufficiency in Abia. The government quarter is still asking for our proposals for market remodelling and market service upgrades but have maintained a distance because no meaningful plan has been made to cover our patented document.
On Health, the governor is making waves retrofitting and revitalizing primary health care centers. Though some , like the Primary Health Center, Amamba, Amaogudu Abiriba in Ohafia LGA, remain largely abandoned after government paid over NGN44m to a contractor handling it to complete since November 23, 2025. Work is still going on there at embarrassing below snail speed after full payments had been collected.
On Agriculture, Naija Lives Matter_Abia have not seen any single data nor visible input . Not in Isiala Ngwa South, North, Obingwa, Ukwa East, West, Osisioma, Aba North, Aba South , Bende, Ohafia LGAs, None. If it is not an oversight maybe that could be addressed in his next tenure as governor.
But the feeling and frenzy for the governor, Dr. Alex Chioma Otti is real. We Naija Lives Matter_ Abia are part if it and we fully subscribe also to it. We have not been appointed to any position of leadership in the administration that we invested heavily to bring, but we cannot like the child we bear allow it to fail. It is succeeding
Electricity: Yes in Aba Zone of 9 LGAs out of 17, the fenced ringed circuit controlled by Aba Power (Geometric Power Ltd), there is as at today nearly 24/7 supply for many (about 75%) of the metered areas. The cost is still very high at N219 per unit (Kw-hr). At this rate you can’t drive industrial machinery at a profitable cost!
The Umuahia Zone, controlled by EEDC is still under review to be bought over and be monitored by Abia State Electricity Regulatory Agency.
On Biogas powering communities, we’re yet to see working prototypes. We will go out in search of one or more. Yes, once again, in our policy proposal to the state governor as Naija Lives Matter_Abia and Naija Lives Matter_Abia Multi-purpose Co-Operative Society we recommended the use of biogas and energy in vegetation for dual-fuelled or multi-fuelled micro- and mini-grids, from hydro turbines, solar farms, windmills and other available renewables for markets, communities, government offices, data centres, medical centres, schools and other special centres before we talk of disengaging from the national grid. Many if not all the LGA offices (LG Chairmen’s wing) have on/off grid solar-inverter thoroghput electricity.
We cannot disconnect from the national grid. We, Abia State, if we follow the recommendation in the Naija Lives Matter _Abia Document Proposal, we will have to remain connected to supply or sell to the National Grid. That’s NLM’s vision of electricity for Abia.
Electric Vehicles: The electric buses transportation scheme is in place in Abia and it is in the trial phase with a fleet of about 20 airconditioned, luxurious electric commuter buses. It is being rin free of charge for now. Because infrastructures for Electric vehicle mass transportation had been extensively developed in Aba and Umuahia, we intend to see more buses come in for the final consolidated take off. This is a real plus for Abia State and mass transportation in Nigeria. The journey for clean energy in transportation will be ultimate if it can be extended to rechargeable tricycles or Keke Operation where bulk of the mass citizens use, to reduce waiting time for government electric buses but also spread the dividends of electric vehicle program to non-car owners.
On free health. NLM_Abia is aware that rhe Alex Otti government is determined to execute it. We also helped to do the sensitization during commercial vehicles-in-transport and drivers’ enumeration based on the now famous Abia State Social Identification Number or ABSSIN. Just as free education at primary and secondary levels are running smoothly. My own son, Saint Ezekiel Montgomery Orji is a beneficiary of free education at Umuola Egbelu Secondary School, Aba North. What is left is to tackle more of cultism among secondary school pupil in Abia State. The anti-cult war is still ongoing.
On free healthcare and monthly stipend payments for those 60 years and above, while I am qualified, I am 63. The day I get mine, I will let Nigerians know.
In terms of comparing Gov. Sanwo Olu with Gov. Alex Otti of Abia State, those making the comparisons and rating Alex Otti higher know what criteria they’re using. I’m distant from Lagos and had not visited recently. But Dr. Alex Otti is not demolishing markets, not demolishing people’s property without adequate compensation. Dr. Alex Otti has aggressively pursued the Abia Passenger and Cargo Airport which the federal government of Nigeria is sabotaging and preventing the inclusion of cargo wing for the airport. The people are not happy that FGN is not giving support, while at the same time keeping eyes away from Gov. Sanwo Olu’s wanton destruction of Igbo property in the name of remodelling or re-labeling Lagos. If comparisons are made between Gov. Dr. Alex Otti of Abia and Sanwo Olu of Lagis, it is an error. Some of us here are comparing him with Alhaji Lateef Jakande of blessed memory!!!
My Oga, the Mayor of Fadeyi, this is my reply to the topic raised here. Elsewhere where I reposted it as I promised you , the responses I got were that the people are too busy, happy and concentrating on what Dr. Alex Chioma Otti is doing for Abia as a governor than indulging into distractions to deter him.
I know and can say that we , the members of the Naija Lives Matter_Abia are neglected in appointment by the governor, who is too obsessed on his own structure , Abia Arise. However, Naija Lives Matter_Abia like many other fringed pro-groups after the 2023 general electiobs, we continued to navigate to promote our ideals for Abia people. As long as the Governor is doing and achieving those or some of those of our ideals, we will keep seeking to be involved. But it is bitter, veey bitter to be left out of a house one laboured and contributed immensely to build!
So I think or has confirmed that the taste of the pudding is in the eating. Majority, about 99.5 percent of Abians are the noise and propaganda mercenaries for Dr. Alex Chioma Otti, not Dr. Alex Otti. They were paid by landmark governance attitudes and physical projects done by Dr. Alex Otti within 33 months.
Once again Happy Valentine
Engr. Montgomery Enyansor Orji, 08062987305,
Abia State Director, Naija Lives Matter.
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