Alex Otti APGA’s Abia Governorship candidate warns “desperate opponents” for destroying banners

APGA’s Abia Governorship candidate warns “desperate opponents” for destroying banners

Special to USAfricaonline.com, CLASSmagazine,  and USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston. Follow USAfrica at Facebook.com/USAfricaChido , Facebook.com/USAfrica247 and Twitter.com/Chido247

Fresh from being officially recognized by Nigeria’s elections commission INEC as the flagbearer for APGA political party in the 2015 February elections, Dr. Alex Otti has issued a statement against forms of violence and pressures ahead of the elections.

In the media release which was also sent to USAfricaonline.com, the former immediate past Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank said “Our opponents are desperate and are resorting to spreading false news, harassing our campaign personnel and destroying our banners! Only our votes can put a stop to these unlawful actions.” His main opponent is the current Gov. Theodore Orji’s pick, Chief Okezie Ikpeazu of the PDP.

On his prospects “I’ve witnessed the drive for change by hard-working Abians, away from the status quo. Look at the commitment and endorsement from the traders and business folks from the Ariara market in Aba. They, like many citizens and friends of Abia have had enough of the same small group toying with the present and future of Abia State. Abians are saying, loudly no more stooges and half-baked yes men who are hand-picked to preserve a failed legacy and agenda”, said the former Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank Plc, in an exclusive interview with USAfricaonline.com and CLASSmagazine Publisher Chido Nwangwu.

VIDEO of the CNN International broadcast/profile of USAfrica and CLASSmagazine Publisher Chido Nwangwu.   http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/international/2010/07/29/mpa.african.media.bk.a.cnn  

Dr. ALEX OTTI, Diamond Bank’sGroup Managing Director/CEO, wins USAfrica BEST OF AFRICA1st International Banker of the Year 2013 award.                                                         https://usafricaonline.com/2013/05/17/alexotti-wins-usafrica-bestofafrica-2013-interna/

USAfrica, Houston, Texas: One of the key bankers in Nigeria and Africa, Dr. ALEX OTTI (the Group Managing Director/CEO of Diamond Bank)

has won the USAfrica BEST OF AFRICA 1st International Banker of the Year 2013 award.

The prestigious trophy was handed to Dr. Otti — on behalf of USAfrica — by the leading candidate for the Mayor of America’s 4th largest city Houston and former city attorney Ben Hall and witnessed by key captains of the oil and gas industry, business leaders, African American civil rights leaders and breakthrough creative professionals of our two continents, petroleum services delegates to OTC, financial services experts and hundreds of professionals.

The Founder of USAfrica and the USAfrica BEST OF AFRICA annual awards Dr. Chido Nwangwu described the honoree Dr. Otti  as very deserving of the award for “meeting USAfrica’s criteria for someone who made an outstanding difference and empowers Nigerians/Africans and Americans in the banking sector and international business.  Secondly, as someone who through executive leadership and scholarship embodies the core goal of USAfrica in flying the distinctive flag of the African professional class in the diaspora and globally.”

Dr. Nwangwu, former adviser on Africa business/issues to Houston’s ex-Mayor Lee Brown  noted that Dr. Otti is “a seasoned and distinguished banker and scholar who has advanced respect for Diamond Bank in the world’s banking community. Alex is being recognized especially for his vision, leadership, integrity, hardwork, varied skills, contributions as a role model and mentor to many bankers, business persons and financial products organizations in Nigeria, Africa, U.S and Europe — especially his support for community, professional and and national development.”

Dr. Otti thanked USAfrica for the award and for professionally and credibly uplifting Nigerians, Africans and Americans through its multimedia networks and special events.

USAfrica established since 1993 in Houston is assessed by the CNN and The New York Times as the largest (and arguably, the most influential) African-owned, U.S-based multimedia and public policy networks, producing and publishing print, web, electronic content and international logistics services.

The USAfrica BEST OF AFRICA awards is held every year in May in Houston, Texas.                                https://usafricaonline.com/2013/05/17/alexotti-wins-usafrica-bestofafrica-2013-interna/

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 and friendship hold lessons for humanity and Africans, USAfrica Founder Chido Nwangwu takes a measure of their works and consequence to write that Mandela and Achebe have left “footprints of greatness.”

He chronicles, movingly, his 1998 reporting from the Robben Island jail room in South Africa where Mandela was held for decades through his 20 years of being close to Achebe. He moderated the 2012 Achebe Colloquium at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.“I’ll forever remember having walked inside and peeped through that historic Mandela jail cell (where he was held for most of his 27 years in unjust imprisonment) at the dreaded Robben Island, on March 27, 1998, alongside then Editor-in-chief of TIME magazine and later news chief executive of the CNN, Walter Isaacson (and others) when President Bill Clinton made his first official trip to South Africa and came to Robben Island. Come to this island of scourge and you will understand, in part, the simple greatness and towering grace of Nelson Mandela”, notes  Chido Nwangwu, award-winning writer, multimedia specialist and founder of USAfricaonline.com, the first African-owned U.S-based newspaper published on the internet, in his first book; he writes movingly from his 1998 reporting from South Africa on Mandela. http://www.mandelaachebechido.com/

IF any of the Nigerian President’s 100 advisers has the polite courage for the extraordinary task of reminding His Excellency of his foremost, sworn, constitutional obligation to the national interest about security and safety of Nigerians and all who sojourn in Nigeria, please whisper clearly to Mr. President that I said, respectfully: Nigerians, at home and abroad, are still concerned and afraid for living in what I call Nigeria’s Federal Republic of Insecurity. FULL text of commentary, exclusively, at USAfricaonline.com https://usafricaonline.com/2011/12/17/nigeria-federal-republic-of-insecurity-by-chido-nwangwu/

USAfrica: BOKO HARAM’s latest killings sharpen divide for security team at Nigeria’s presidency. By Chido Nwangwu
https://usafricaonline.com/2013/10/21/usafrica-boko-harams-latest-killings-sharpen-divide-for-security-team-at-nigerias-presidency-by-chido-nwangwu/

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Dancing with “ghosts” of BOKO HARAM, President Jonathan, Sultan Abubakar and Nigeria’s national security. By Dr. Chido Nwangwu
https://usafricaonline.com/2013/04/05/dancing-with-ghosts-of-boko-haram-president-jonathan-sultan-abubakar-and-nigerias-national-security-by-chido-nwangwu/