Abia State perfectly explains why Nigerians often end up with the kind of leadership they complain about. For over 20 years, the state was under one political structure that left citizens frustrated, underdeveloped, and hopeless. Roads collapsed, salaries unpaid, and governance became distant from the people. Abians cried for change—and when that change finally came through the current administration of Governor Alex Chioma Otti, many began to witness visible differences in transparency, infrastructure renewal, civil service reforms, and accountability.
Yet, in what can only be described as political irony, some youths—who should be defenders of progress—have chosen to weaponize social media to attack a government that is evidently working. Not because the people are suffering more, but because political ambition, cheap loyalty over “peanut payments” have beclouded their conscience. Politicians, like every citizen, have the right to nurse political ambition; however, ambition must never be built on lies, propaganda, or the deliberate misrepresentation of reality.
When young people who have experienced both administrations pretend that nothing has changed, it raises a critical question: Who benefits from this confusion? Certainly not the ordinary Abian. The tragedy is that selfish interests are gradually pushing the state back toward the very system that failed it for decades. This is how societies destroy their own breakthroughs—by allowing hunger, impatience, and greed to silence truth.
Abia State is not suffering from a lack of alternatives; it is suffering from a lack of political sincerity among some of its youth population. Until young people begin to place long-term development above short-term financial inducements, Nigeria will continue to recycle bad leadership. The youth must sit down and reflect deeply: What I am being paid to say today—does it truly reflect the reality on ground, and is it worth mortgaging our collective future?
Progress is fragile. When the people refuse to protect it, regression becomes inevitable.
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