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The Alex Otti Foundation Scholarship Scheme And The Mischief Of The Abia Political Sycophants.

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The Alex Otti Foundation Scholarship Scheme And The Mischief Of The Abia Political Sycophants.

Two days ago, a bright Abia son and public commentator, Honest Munachiso Offor put up a post on Facebook applauding the Alex Otti Foundation Scholarship Scheme, and enjoined qualified Abia sons and daughters to take advantage of it and further their education, unfortunately some misguided mischief makers who sing praises for the Okezie Ikpeazu led government on social media began to attack Mr. Offor for the post while dismissing Alex Otti and the scholarship scheme.

These reactions weren’t different from the ones heard from the same characters last year when announcements for the scholarship were made on radio and social media. They are so cruel that they do not want any program that could benefit the suffering Abia youths, especially those whose parents have been callously denied their legitimate entitlements as workers or pensioners.

These sycophants went overboard, vilifying Alex Otti with their distortions and dubious adumbrations, especially where it concerns his legacies in Abia.

Even though we do not owe any explanations to these felons, it’s important to remind these miguided elements that Otti is not on the same pedestal with the political clowns they have chosen to worship perpetually.

As a thoroughbred professional who got to the apogee of his career where he wrote his name in gold and firmly stamped his authority to the acknowledgement of the creme de la creme of the corporate world, Otti had never and is not willing to sponsor any humanitarian project, including the ongoing scholarship scheme for the purpose of scoring any cheap political point, since he’s not seeking any individual benefits from his selfless political aspirations.

For the rabble rousers who are hunted by destructive ignorance, it’s important to remind them that as an Executive Director in First Bank, Alex Otti had given jobs to scores of Abians in the bank and elsewhere.
Because he was bright, had the influence and was performing very well as an ED, it wasn’t difficult for him to ensure that more branches of First Bank were built in Abia and got Abians employed.

Prior to this time, there was no operational Bank Branch in Abiriba, Arochukwu and parts of Isuikwuato as well as many other parts of Abia North. Otti quickly built branches of First Bank in Abiriba, Arochukwu and Akara respectively to ease the sufferings of the indigenes who were forced to travel hundreds of kilometres with the attendant risks before they could do their bank transactions.
Dozens of jobs were also created by the same Alex Otti they claimed has never done anything for Abia.

As an MD/CEO of Diamond Bank, Otti created up to 50% of the branches of the bank in Abia, and employed hundreds of Abians. He was able to do this because he deployed his skills and intellectual acumen that gave room for huge profitability,so creating jobs and employing Abians wasn’t a problem for him.

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Prior to his movement to Diamond bank, the only Diamond bank branch at Osisioma, was closed down for over two years during the kidnapping era.  The Abia political chief priests had no solution to it. They could not even collaborate with the management of the bank to tackle the insecurity that caused the closure, forgetting that Abians were affected.

It took an Alex Otti to reopen the bank and provide the necessary security arrangements that ended the fears of staff and customers.

The only bank branch in the rural part of Ngwa land till date, the Diamond Bank  branch at Owerrinta, was built by Alex Otti,who also employed Abians to work there. Prior to this time, people from Isiala Ngwa South and Isiala Ngwa North would travel all the way to either Owerri or Aba for their bank transactions, with the attendant risks.

The question is, have these rabble rousing irritants from Abia state government bothered to find out why other financial institutions didn’t consider those places for location of their branches? It’s simply because they didn’t think those places were viable enough to give them enough returns, but Otti thought outside the box and thought Abia and Abians First before maximum profit. I know it doesn’t matter to the clowns in government house, but it matters to many honest Abians who are not blinded by primitive politics.

The Alex Otti Foundation Scholarship Scheme And The Mischief Of The Abia Political Sycophants.

There’s no bank branch in the rural part of Obingwa, if at all there’s any in the Urban. None in Ugwunagbo, none in Isialangwa North and many other Abia rural communities, even though we have some of their Chief Priests, political Field Marshals, Legendary thugs, and overnight Billionaires from those places, including bankers, yet in their myopic and mischievous miscalculations, the sychophants see those destiny-killing undertakers as their Champions, while  Alex Otti is their eternal foe.

Are they simply saying that those old men and women who travel all the way from Itu Ukpa, Abala, Agburuike, Isiugwu etc all in Obingwa, to Aba for their bank transactions don’t deserve some relief? Can you see how despicable and insensitive they are, just because they prefer Hennessy Paradis to genuine job creation?

I’m not surprised that the government e-rats and thugs don’t ask questions about Ikpeazu’s investments and achievements while he served former governors Orji Uzor Kalu as a T.C Chairman and Special Assistant, and TA Orji as head of refuse collection in Aba. They know he had none, and lacked the structures and discipline to have any. They are just interested in singing praises for the temporary peanuts and pittance they are getting from him while the inglourious tenure lasts.

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One of the bitter ignoramuses claimed that Alex Otti has no investment in Abia, shamefully this fellow thinks he has won a championship crown, but he merely made himself look grossly irresponsible, because he’s neither Alex Otti’s business manager nor ally, and thus could not have known what he has and doesn’t have in Abia.

I understand that those they know and consider as investors are those who steal Abia’s money and use same to build beer parlours and night clubs where our youths drink away their destinies and lives.

Alex Otti is not a money-miss-road who goes about bragging about what he has or has done, but since they would like to know, be informed that amongst others, he has investments in downstream oil and gas in Abia worth hundreds of millions of Naira and employing a lot of people. In addition, he has massive investment in property, Insurance, Real Estate, Telecoms, Technology, Hospitality etc within and outside Abia state. He definitely would have had more in Abia if not for the irresponsible and insane leadership being rendered by the Chief Priests, who masquerade as politicians, and whose governance has ensured that Abia remains unattractive to strategic investments.

One of the richest men in the Oil and Gas business living in Aba was bold to publicly tell a lot of people a few years ago that Alex Otti turned his business fortunes around while he was in the bank and that he would forever be grateful to him. Otti rendered the said assistance when he had no thoughts of politics, and the man in question is not even an Abian, but Otti knew that the man’s business was impacting positively on Abia, especially on Aba residents. There are many of them who have been giving such testimonies.

Alex Otti’s house in Umuru Nvosi, in Isialangwa South LGA is very close to those of some senior appointees of the Ikpeazu led government. The only telecommunication network there, was brought by Alex Otti using his contacts and influence. The roads that pass through their houses in the same Isialangwa South were attracted by Alex Otti through the NDDC, and they were solidly built. The roads were hitherto impassable, but “built on the radio by the Ikpeazu government” before Otti’s practical intervention, even though those appointees have been in government for donkey years.

Their former Commissioner for finance who is one of their idols was employed in First Bank by Alex Otti, I know that he and many others who had benefited from Otti’s magnanimity years before Otti thought about politics wouldn’t want to disclose this to their uninformed rabble rousers so that they could continue to rant senselessly against Otti.

Recently, Alex Otti and his team threw their support behind Abia State government over the probe of NDDC projects awarded to Abians. Otti did this because he wants the interest of the suffering Abia masses to be protected. Otti did it also because he had used his contacts and relationship to attract some road projects through the NDDC and ensured that fantastic jobs were executed, and are being executed. One of such projects was the Isieketa-Mbawsi road commissioned by the Special Adviser to the President on Media, Mr. Femi Adesina in 2018.
Otti attracted similar projects in Arochukwu, and in Isiukwuato, which are ongoing. There’s no other part of the state where NDDC projects have been effectively and solidly delivered. This is verifiable

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As for the credibility of the Alex Otti Foundation Scholarship,one undisputed truth is that Alex Otti is known at the highest level as a man of decency and class, thus his project can’t be different from who he is. The scholarship in question had benefited many Abia youths before Otti decided to formalize, widen its scope and make it public the way it would benefit many more Abians. It’s a scholarship that’s devoid of sectional, religious and political affiliation. It’s for less privileged and bright Abians, and it’s open to all Abians, including relations of the Ikpeazu’s e-rats and sycophants whose parents have not been paid their salary and pensions to enable them pay for their children’s school fees.

No matter how Abia government e-rats try to demonize and diminish the towering profile of Alex Otti, it won’t stop him and other God-fearing Abians from asking critical questions and condemning those leadership atrocities that have continued to retard development in Abia.

When the e-rats and their sponsors exhibit their demagogic endowments by spewing kindergarten gibberish and pouring vicious vituperations that are too infantile to penetrate the most gullible,they ignorantly assume that sane and uncompromised Abians are  paying attention to them, sadly for them, the reality on ground says otherwise.

We understand the pains these guys pass through when they hear Alex Otti’s name, and we truly sympathize with them. Alex Otti isn’t the type of person they would have loved to have in Abia challenging their grand thievery and incompetent leadership. They detest him because he’s not a noise maker, not a rabble rouser, not a braggart, not a chief thug nor a sponsor of thuggery like them. Above all, he’s not a “Chartered Politician” without a second address who would easily run to them for settlement, so their misery and bitterness is understandable. Our appeal to them to take heart, because God carefully gave Abians Alex Otti for a purpose that must be accomplished at God’s appointed time, and as mere mortals, they can’t do anything about it.

The Alex Otti Foundation Scholarship Scheme And The Mischief Of The Abia Political Sycophants.

By Ferdinand Ekeoma

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