By Jennifer Amarachi
Benjamin Kalu, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, said that Governor Alex Otti of Abia State would be the last state’s helmsman that the Labour Party would produce.
Kalu made this assertion in a viral video on Monday during a discussion about his party’s prospects in the upcoming election.
The 53-year-old former spokesman of the green chambers of the National Assembly, representing the Bende Federal Constituency, claimed that while Otti has done well as governor, the state needed to be led by the All Progressives Congress.
He said, “This will be the last time that a Labour governor will govern Abia State. I say it without mincing words. The next governor of Abia State will be APC governor.
“I have told him publicly and privately that the APC governor will be next in Abia State. How it will happen, I don’t know, but it will happen.
”I am confident because my government is working hard, the President is working hard, and Abia will repay the president. The president that has given you the South East Development Commission will be repaid.
“A president that is appointing Abians into administration. A president who is attracting the dividends of democracy will be repaid. We are not ungrateful people.!Monkey will not work, and baboon chop. APC will not help the state to be strong, and Labour will take the credit.”
Kalu emphasized that he couldn’t
reconcile holding the position of sixth highest-ranking citizen in the country while his home state was governed by a different party.
He expressed confidence that the 2027 election would bring an end to such, implying that his party would win the state government.
“We are friends, 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.
“APC will determine who will become the next governor of Abia State. I don’t care about who the person is. However, one thing I know is that the platform, APC, will be the next governor of Abia state” he added.
