By Innocent Sunday Okeke  The recent coordinated attempts by Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and Deputy Speaker Benjamin Kalu to pressure Governor Alex Otti into defecting from the Labour Party to the All Progressives Congress (APC) should be condemned in the strongest terms. This desperate ploy is not just an assault on Governor Otti’s administration but a brazen insult to the collective will of Abians who voted for a new direction after enduring over two decades of failure, deception, and outright betrayal under the leadership of these same men and their cronies. It represents the clearest indication yet that the old political order, sensing its own irrelevance, is determined to use every weapon at its disposal; blackmail, manipulation, and propaganda, to pull Abia back into the cesspool of corrupt governance.  These men, whose records in public office are littered with scandal and ineptitude, are now arrogantly attempting to dictate the direction of a government that has been perfor...