A civic group has raised alarm over secret meetings by former Abia leaders allegedly plotting a comeback. The warnings are serious. Read the explosive full story.
…. “They fed fat on your tears — now they want to drink again.”
In a fiery press statement that has sent ripples through Abia’s political landscape, a civic watchdog group known as Concerned Citizens and Defenders of Abia’s Future has raised alarm over what it calls an “orchestrated attempt” by rejected politicians to hijack the state’s political destiny once again.
The group, in a powerful statement signed by Kelechi Nwosu, condemned a series of recent meetings by individuals it described as “vultures and vampires” — former political leaders whose time in office, they claim, brought nothing but “ruin, regression, and untold hardship” upon Abians.
“Let it be clearly stated,” the group warned, “the vultures are gathering again — circling, conspiring, and plotting a comeback not to serve but to feed.”
According to the statement, these disgraced political actors — many of whom were rejected at the polls — are now shamelessly regrouping, hosting meetings, and extending invitations from mansions built with looted funds.
“These are the same men and women under whose watch Abia was plunged into debt, stripped of dignity, and reduced to infrastructural darkness,” the group declared.
A Dangerous Rebranding of Old Faces
The statement cautions the public to be wary of the current rebranding efforts being disguised as reconciliation or consultation meetings. Describing them as “rituals of nostalgia laced with propaganda,” the group said the motive is not transformation, but power recapture.
“A predator does not change its appetite simply because it changes its perch,” Kelechi Nwosu wrote. “These actors were not forced out — they were rejected by the people.”
The group called on Abians to fiercely guard the progress being made in the state under the current leadership and resist every attempt to hand the state back to those who looted it blind.
A Call to Collective Memory
Concerned Citizens and Defenders of Abia’s Future urged the people to ask themselves hard questions:
- Were your roads better during their time?
- Were pensions paid?
- Were salaries regular?
- Was there transparency or propaganda?
“We cannot afford selective amnesia,” the group warned. “We cannot surrender our hard-won future on the altar of false promises and sugar-coated deception.”
The statement ends with a call for vigilance, unity, and political awareness to ensure that the gains of recent years are not reversed.
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THE VULTURES GATHER AGAIN: A CLARION CALL TO ALL TRUE ABIANS
The attention of well-meaning citizens of Abia State has been drawn to recent political stirrings and orchestrated meetings by individuals who once held the reins of power in our state and whose collective legacy remains one of ruin, regression, and untold hardship for the people.
Let it be clearly stated: the vultures and vampires are gathering once again circling, conspiring, and plotting a comeback not to serve but to feed. These are the same men and women under whose watch Abia was brought to its knees saddled with debt, stripped of dignity, and left in infrastructural decay and administrative darkness.
They now return, cloaked in camaraderie and nostalgia, organizing meetings and issuing invitations from the very compounds built on the tears and sweat of a long-suffering people. But Abians must be vigilant. A predator does not change its appetite simply because it changes its perch.
These actors were not forced from office, they were rejected. The people of Abia, in a historic display of collective will, turned the page on an era of impunity, propaganda, and mediocrity. That mandate was not given lightly, and it must not be surrendered cheaply.
We ask every Abian:
Were your roads better because of their stewardship?
Were your children in better schools because of their policies?
Did they pay workers, build institutions, or preserve the dignity of governance?
Their return is not a reflection of repentance but of desperation. They seek relevance, not redemption. And they meet, not to chart a future, but to rewrite a past we have already survived.
We therefore urge all well-meaning sons and daughters of Abia:
Remain alert.
Resist deception.
Reject recycled failure.
The future of Abia must never again be placed in the hands of those who betrayed her yesterday.
This is not the time for amnesia. This is the time for courage, clarity, and continuity. Let every household remember: when the vultures gather, it is not for a feast of hope, but for the carcass of progress. Let them not find one here.
Abia is rising. Let no man pull her down again.
Kelechi Nwosu
For Concerned Citizens and Defenders of Abia’s Future
Umuahia, Abia State
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