A Crescendo Of Expectations is building up over Aba, one of Nigeria’s major manufacturing hubs, which for decades has had its stars dimmed by the ill luck of bad and incompetent governance and total neglect of the social and economic infrastructure required to make a manufacturing hub thrive.
The expectations are being built around the provenance of having the banker, Alex Otti, on the saddle as governor of Abia State where the city is located and where vultures had reigned in the corridors of political power; of Geometric Power, promoted by the scientist, Barth Nnaji, a two-time former minister of power and of science and technology; and the unleashing of the exports easing African Continental Free Area (AfCFTA), all three coming into play at the same time.