Abuja Signals a Major Reset: How the Abia APC Crisis May Hand the Party to Governor Alex Otti. ~By The GrandMaster

ONN Abuja 18.02.2026

Emerging political intelligence from Abuja suggests that the deepening crisis within the Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may have effectively surrendered the party’s structure and future to the sitting governor, Alex Otti.

Ironically, this is the same governor APC leaders in Abia have spent months attacking, resisting, and attempting to politically isolate. Yet, politics has no permanent enemies, only permanent interests. As events now unfold, the APC’s internal implosion has created a vacuum too large to ignore, and power, as nature dictates, is rushing in to fill it.

The Abuja Calculation: The “Enugu Model”

Sources indicate that national party strategists are considering what has been described as the “Enugu Model”, a decisive intervention that collapses irredeemably fractured state structures and reassigns effective leadership to a sitting governor in order to stabilise, rebuild, and reposition the party ahead of 2027.

Under this thinking, once a governor becomes the dominant political force in a state, party ownership follows political reality, not sentiment. In this scenario, Governor Otti, by virtue of incumbency, state-wide control, and strategic relevance, would naturally emerge as the rallying point for the APC in Abia State.

Grassroots Anger, Elite Failure

Remarkably, this development is being quietly welcomed by a large segment of Abia APC members, many of whom are furious at what they describe as the chronic inability of their leaders to work together, manage ambition, or prioritise party survival over personal gain.

To the grassroots, this is not betrayal, it is relief.

Years of factional wars, internal sabotage, and leadership paralysis have left the party weak, directionless, and electorally irrelevant. If an external force must impose order, many now believe so be it.

Otti’s Window of Opportunity

This moment is especially significant given the ongoing turmoil within the Labour Party, where internal disputes and leadership uncertainty have reportedly complicated Governor Otti’s re-election calculations. As a result, he has been quietly evaluating alternative political platforms capable of guaranteeing stability, structure, and national backing.

The APC’s self-inflicted crisis has now presented him with a golden opportunity, not merely to switch platforms, but to reshape an entire party structure around his incumbency.

Should this alignment crystallise, it would not only secure Otti’s political future but permanently dislodge the same APC power brokers who once invested heavily in his removal from office, and who are now trapped by their own disunity.

A State to Watch as 2027 Approaches

What is unfolding in Abia is not routine party politics, it is a full-scale political realignment driven by failure at the top and opportunity at the centre. If the Abuja plans materialise, Abia APC as presently constituted may cease to exist, replaced by a governor-led structure anchored on power, pragmatism, and national strategy.

As the 2027 political season gathers momentum, Abia State has quietly become one of Nigeria’s most consequential battlegrounds.

Those who underestimated internal rot are now watching power slip away.

Stay tuned. The Abia political chessboard is being reset, and the next moves will redefine the state’s future.