The Member Representing Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Obi Aguocha has tackled the Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Kalu over his declaration that All Progressives Congress would take over the leadership of Abia State in 2027.
Recall that Kalu who represents Bende Constituency had in a viral interview boasted that Alex Otti would be the last Labour Party Governor in Abia stressing that APC would determine the next leader of the state.
He argued that the President has allowed the attraction of the dividend of democracy to Abia State, given federal appointments to Abians, ensured the passage of the South East Development Commission(SEDC) Bill and more so, allowed an Abian to be the number six citizen of Nigeria, the gestures, he said, must be repaid.
In a statement, Hon. Aguocha berated the Deputy Speaker for the declaration, “My first inclination was that of shock, maybe that the video was an Artificial Intelligence [AI] generated skit. Alas, it was real. My dear colleague, your open vituperation and remarks against our Governor, Labour Party, and Abia State was very condescending, denigrating, and disrespectful in every sense of the word.
Your personal opinion and partisanship aside. Your patently repeated boasting and referring to yourself as NO.6 in the order of leadership hierarchy of the Federal Government seen in the video clip portrays you less as a leader and more like a man with an open display of brazenness and rabid indiscretion. I would have advised you otherwise.”
He contended that Kalu lacks the right to declare the seat of the Governor of Abia State, “Hon. Ben Kalu owes your party, APC and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a duty to deliver Abia State, a Labour Party state to your party at the center as payback for the President's political patronage to the Southeast viz; signing the Southeast Development Commission Act, etcetera." What a brazen and uncontrolled outpouring of emotional fury’’.
“You went on to declare that the President's party, the APC, will take over Abia State by 2027. I have known you to exhume boldness, which is often misconstrued as excessive arrogance but not this type of pugnacious instability.
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He further challenged the Deputy Speaker to openly declare his intention, “If your ambition is to become the governor of Abia State by 2027, it is your right, but make it plain rather than hiding yourself in the shadows of discontent and display of insincerity and intemperate political culture. But I assure you that as you want Abians to repay Tinubu for his good works, so shall Abians repay Alex Otti for his mammoth achievements come 2027. Alex Otti will be reelected governor of Abia State.”
