The Lawmaker representing Ikwuano/ Umuahia Federal Constituency, Hon Obi Aguocha, has taken a swipe at the statement credited to the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Benjamin Kalu, to the effect that Abia State Governor, Dr Alex Otti, will be the last Governor of Labour Party, LP, extraction in the State.
This is even as he challenged Kalu to be courageous enough to declare for the State’s top job and stop dropping the name and offices of the President.
The Source reports that in a viral video which has been in circulation since Sunday, August 18, Rt Hon Kalu had also,
emphatically enthused that the All Progressive Congress, APC, must capture and deliver Abia to President Tinubu in 2027.
“This will be the last time that a Labour Party Governor will govern Abia State. I say it without mincing words. The next Governor of Abia State will be APC Governor.
“We are friends, and we work together, but I will not be the Number Six Citizen of the Country and another party will Govern my State.
“The next election in 2027, APC will be there. I have told him( Governor Otti) privately and publicly that the APC Governor will be next in Abia State. How it will happen, I don’t know, but it will happen”, Kalu boasted.
But in a statement issued on Monday August, 19, 2024, Hon Aguocha informed the Deputy Speaker that there will be no vacancy at the Abia State seat of power for him and the APC to fill in 2027.
He noted that while the people of the South-east region appreciate the President for signing into law the South East Development Commission, just like for all the other geo-political zones in the country, he, however, stated that none of the leaders of the other zones, including the Speaker, Rt Hon Tajuddeen Abbas, have been heard or seen cajoling and mocking his people as Kalu has done.
“Rt Honourable, methinks we should elevate the noble ideals of demonstrable unity and stop chiding yourself by, each time, dropping President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s name in a manner suggesting that Dr Alex Otti is at war with the President.
President Tinubu and Governor Alex Otti had known each other spanning their various careers, for, at least, 20 years of their personal relationship.
“You have just arrived on the national stage in the last one year. So what is all this talk about “APC must take Abia to Tinubu?”, Hon Aguocha stated .
According to him, Governor Otti and the LP won the last election in the State, by a landslide with the APC only managing less than 4% of the total valid votes cast .
He maintained that the Governor, ever since coming on board has positively impacted the people, and changed the hitherto ugly narrative of Abia .
“Abia people are still safe and will remain so with a high performing Alex Otti by 2027 and beyond. In the light of this, my sincere advice for you, my worthy and esteemed colleague should be to try a new political project if the position of the Deputy Speaker. and the no.6 in the country is now belittling to your status”, Aguocha stated.
Furthermore, Hon Aguocha advised the Deputy Speaker to be bold enough to declare for the gubernatorial race, if his ultimate ambition is to be Abia state Governor.
“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”.
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