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14/10/2026

OTTIMANIA Unveils State, Zonal, LG Campaign Leadership Ahead Of 2027 Otti's Re-Election - See Full List

The OTTIMANIA Legacy Movement has announced its campaign leadership structure, naming its Board of Trustees chairman, conveners, patrons, advisory board members and executives across Abia State, the three senatorial zones and local government areas.

The movement, which is mobilising support for the re-election of Governor Alex Chioma Otti, OFR, and Deputy Governor Engr. Ikechukwu Emetu, FNSE, has appointed Ambassador Dr. Osita Offor "De Ultimate Commander", as president, while Dr. Uchechukwu Samson Ogah, CON, is named Board of Trustees chairman.

High Chief Raymond I. Nkemdirim, MFR; Pastor Caleb O.N. Ajagba, Ph.D.; Engr. Henry Okoroafor; Hon. Ikechukwu Uwanna, SAN; Navy Commander McDonald Ubah (Rtd.); Mazi Sunny Afurobi; Hon. Chimezie Ukaegbu; Hon. Dr. Salome Obiukwu; Comrade Prince Emeka Kalu (Magic Fingers) and Hon. Lady Grace Ibeh are listed among the movement's conveners.

The list also names Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, GCON, as Grand Patron, alongside several political leaders, public office holders, professionals and other prominent individuals as patrons. Dr. Ogah is also listed as chairman of the Advisory Board, which includes members drawn from different professional and public service backgrounds.

At the state level, High Chief Uzor Ekworomadu is named Director-General, with Maazi Obinna Agommuo as Deputy Director-General and Dr. Uduma Nnate as Executive Secretary.

The legal directorate comprises Kenneth Ahia, SAN, as Director of Legal; Kelechi Nwaiwu, SAN, and Chimezie Kingsley Okorie, SAN, as co-directors. Col. Dr. Emeka Chilaka (Rtd.) is named State Director of Strategy, while Chief Engr. Chika Ibeku heads Contact and Mobilisation.

Mr. Bright Ejike, popularly known as I Go Yan, is named Director of Publicity and Spokesperson, with Comrade Amos Oge Kalu as Assistant Director of Publicity. Other appointments cover security, finance, welfare, women and youth affairs, creative media, entertainment, information and communications technology, special duties, diaspora mobilisation, and budget and planning.

The structure extends to Abia North, Abia Central and Abia South, with zonal coordinators and officers assigned responsibilities for mobilisation, strategy, welfare, youth affairs, women affairs and special duties.

Local government coordinators have also been named for the 17 LGAs of Abia State, including Arochukwu, Ohafia, Bende, Isuikwuato, Umunneochi, Umuahia North, Umuahia South, Aba North, Aba South, Osisioma, Obingwa, Ugwunagbo, Ikwuano, Isiala Ngwa North, Isiala Ngwa South, Ukwa East and Ukwa West.

In Ohafia, Sir Kalu Kalu Nwafor is named coordinator, with Hon. Kalu Agu Kalu as deputy, while Hon. Ihechi Phillips is listed as the Bende LGA coordinator.

The appointments establish a broad organisational framework for the movement's political mobilisation across the state, with responsibilities distributed from the state executive to the senatorial zones and local government areas.

The announcement was issued on October 12, 2026, by Bright Ejike, Director of Publicity and Spokesperson of the OTTIMANIA Legacy Movement.

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Writers Note: The complete list of conveners, patrons, advisory board members, state executives, zonal officers and local government coordinators is reproduced below as released by the movement.

©2026! OTTIMANIA LEGACY MOVEMENT.

27/08/2026

19/02/2026

One morning I woke up to the realization that my husband could not afford to put down money for feeding in our home. Just let that sit for a moment. Here was a man who had stood tall on our wedding day, who had made promises and meant every single one of them, now unable to provide a basic meal

So I made a decision. I found a way for us to move back into my mother's house. The plan was simple. Stay there, gather enough, and pack out as soon as we could stand on our own again.

I once overheard my sister and my mother saying unkind things about my husband. Sitting right there in the kitchen like I didn't exist in the next room. I heard my mother say, "Oh, that one too is not a man." I heard my sister laugh and say, "Look at his bowl of food. Yet no money." They said the meanest things about a man they once pretended to adore.....👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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19/02/2026

Her ex claims our baby resembles him so he would want to do a DNA test on the baby. I was coming home when I heard her voice in the corridor. She was on a phone call, and it was on loudspeaker. I instinctively slowed down and listened.

She was speaking with her ex-boyfriend. She was telling him that I had changed since she gave birth and that she never expected me to behave that way. What hurt even more was that they went on to discuss their past sexual encounters, casually, as if boundaries no longer existed.

When she noticed I had entered the room, she quickly lowered her voice and removed the call from loudspeaker. I watched her send him a message, informing him that I had come inside. I asked her to unlock her phone…👇🏾👇🏾

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19/02/2026

I lost my mom when I was young. Too young to fully understand what death meant, but old enough to feel the weight of her absence every single day. And my dad? He didn't step up as a father. He was just there.

Now I need to talk about something I have never said out loud to anyone. Something that sits heavy on my chest every single day.

I began to ma******te when I was in Junior High School. Back then it wasn't severe. Just once in a while, the way young boys experiment and discover things about their bodies. I didn't think much of it. But when I got to Senior High School, it became something else entirely. Something I couldn't control.

I would tell myself, "This is the last time." I would pray about it, beg God to take the desire away. I would put myself to stop, go weeks without doing it, feel proud of myself. And then something would trigger me and I would start again.

I'm very sensitive to these things. To the extent that if I see a woman with the right shape passing by, I lose control completely. Even in class. Even in public. My body reacts before my mind can catch up and I have to sit there trying to hide it, trying to focus on something else, trying not to let anyone notice.

I really want to stop this act. I mean it with my whole heart. Now I'm in tertiary institution and still, I can't stop.

I remember when I had a girlfriend for a short while. During that time, I stopped completely. But when that relationship ended, I went right back to it. Even worse than before.

This thing has stolen something from me. It has stolen my confidence to approach ladies

I have thought about going to a Priest. I imagine sitting in that quiet space and letting it all out. But I don't trust anyone. Not really. My father never gave me a reason to trust the men in my life. So how do I start now? How do I bare my soul to a stranger when the one man who was supposed to be safe never was?

I just want to be free. I want to walk past a woman without my body betraying me. I want to approach a girl without that voice in my head telling me I'm not good enough. I want to look at myself in the mirror and feel proud of who I see.

Is that too much to ask?

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19/02/2026

My husband was out of town on the 9th of February for work. This wasn’t new. It’s something that comes up very often. He travels from time to time for work and comes back days later. This time around, he was supposed to return on the 15th. It was later that it came to mind that I was going to do Valentine’s without him.

I sent him messages that day, and he sent a few back. He said he didn’t plan his trip well. He forgot there was Valentine’s. He would have planned it in such a way that he would be home for us to celebrate. Even then, we made plans for the following weekend when he would be in town.

I’m six months pregnant and can’t do much, to be honest. Even if he were here, we would have been home watching TV or gossiping.

He returned on Sunday morning, and I quickly picked up his dirty clothes to wash for him. Guess what I found? A hotel receipt in his front pocket and then a restaurant receipt too. The hotel is in Accra, where we both live. I lined up the two receipts and told him, “Can you explain these two receipts? Does it mean you were in Accra yesterday?”

He fumbled for what to say. He picked the receipts up and looked at them as if it was the first time he was seeing them. He asked, “Are you sure you found these in my pocket? I don’t remember going to this place. I wasn’t even in Accra, so how come?”

This guy has been lying since Sunday. It’s not the fact that he cheated that’s breaking my heart. It’s the lies, the antics, and the fact that he’s making me look like a mad person. He’s now telling me I’m doing all that because of pregnancy hormones.

He made one of his friends call to attest that indeed he was with him outside Accra and that the receipt thing must have been a mistake. I told him, “If I take you to a shrine and ask you to swear, would you be able to do it? If I give you an egg to swear on it, can you?”

He too started fumbling and faded back to wherever he came from.

My BP is skyrocketing because I can’t sleep. I’ve been thinking, and everything makes me angry. I see him, and I feel like I should attack him physically. I still have the receipts. I have told him I will get to the bottom of it, but honestly, I don’t know what next to do. He knows he’s dead if I find out the truth. That’s the reason he’s doing everything to change the story.

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19/02/2026

I played two men and still got played. Doe and I were not exclusive when I met Jay. That's the part I need you to understand first.

Jay and I were just talking. You know how it is when you meet someone new and there's that spark, that curiosity. We were getting to know each other, nothing serious yet. Then one day he just put it out there. He said, "I like you." And I thought about it, and I figured why not give him a try. So I did.

A few weeks later, somehow Jay found out about Doe. The person I was already seeing. When Jay found out, he asked me to choose between them. I refused. It wasn't that I was being difficult. I genuinely liked both of them. They each brought something different into my life. Doe understood parts of me that Jay couldn't reach. Jay made me feel things that Doe didn't. I wasn't ready to lose either one....👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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19/02/2026

Our relationship started very well until we started talking about marriage, just in case we got there. She was clear about what she wanted in a man: supportive, very caring, helps with domestic chores, family-oriented, and many others. She asked what I was looking for in a wife, and I made a list off the top of my head. The usual list, the basic things a man needs in a woman.

All was going well until I mentioned that I needed a woman who would be very submissive to me. She asked what that meant, and I told her, “Just a woman who will recognize me as the leader and will allow me to lead because two captains can’t be in a ship.”

She laughed and said, “Well, I’m not that kind of woman, and what you’re describing is exactly the kind of relationship I don’t want to be in.”

For several minutes, we went back and forth with explanations. I was trying to explain my point with no anger or agenda, but it looked like everything I said made her angry, the fact that I was going to lead her tipped her boat. She said, “I don’t need a leader. I need a partner. If you can’t be that partner, then there’s no need.”

She left the conversation and said good night. I thought we would come back to it again because we had a three-month-old relationship going on, but her attitude changed. She didn’t want to talk to me again, or she gave me excuses.

After carefully thinking about it, I realized that I didn’t communicate my thoughts very well, and maybe my choice of words didn’t help the discussion. I told her, “I’ve realized where I went wrong; kindly give me the chance to explain myself.”

She retorted, “You said what was in your heart. You don’t need to change a thing. Even the Bible says, 'Out of the abundance of the heart speaketh the mouth.' It’s fine. We both are looking for different things. Let’s leave it here.”

Just like that, I’ve lost my relationship. This is a woman I’ve fallen totally for. Physically, she’s the only woman I’ve met who has it all, both front and back, and has the skin color to match. I thought we could work through this misunderstanding, but she says she can’t submit and won’t also allow me to mend my position.

What’s wrong with women these days and impatience? How do we grow if we all take entrenched positions? We should be calming down ooo. We are not going anywhere with this world.

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19/02/2026

My father does not want me to get married.

My father ran away after our mother died in 2007. I still remember the confusion, the tears, and how everything in our lives shifted overnight. After the funeral and all the ceremonies were over, my five siblings and I went to live with our grandmother on my mother’s side. That was where we found some kind of stability, or at least a place where we could rest our heads and feel safe.

Our father was nowhere to be found.

Along the way, my headmistress took me in and treated me like her own child. She supported me and cared for me through school. Later, when I became stubborn and was sent back to my mother’s family, I still managed to continue my education. Eventually, I made it to tertiary school through the kindness and benevolence of different people who stepped in to help me.

During all those years, my father only sent me money once. My school fees were about 3,100 cedis, and he gave me 2,000 cedis. That was the only time he supported me financially.

Now I am about to get married. Before I finished college, my foster mother lost her husband. I thought that moment could be an opportunity for my father to reconnect, so I told him to use that chance to meet my foster mother. He never did.

When I informed my foster mother about the marriage process, she said she could not receive the bride price herself, so she directed us to my maternal family. They accepted it and asked us to go ahead with the marriage arrangements.

I informed my father about everything. But this morning, when I called him to tell him the wedding date, he told me I had insulted him and his family by not allowing him to receive the bride price.

Now I am scared. I am worried this situation will have implications for my marriage.

I do not know what to do. Should I tell my maternal family about his reaction, or should I wait until they ask about him? What if they never ask? Will my marriage still stand without my father being involved?

These questions keep troubling my mind.

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