The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has urged Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, to join the All Progressives Congress (APC) and stop sitting on the fence to support President Bola Tinubu.
Naijaonpoint reports that Kalu made this known on Monday, while addressing APC members and his supporters during a town hall meeting and food distribution held at his country home in Bende, Abia State.
He said Otti would receive the full support of Abia APC members if he joins the party, stressing that Tinubu will not support a non-APC member.
He said: “I want to use this opportunity again to invite Governor Alex Otti to join our party. If he comes to our party, we will support him but if they are in another party and they are supporting President, they want to work for the President, fa-fa-fa-, foul!.”
The Deputy Speaker, who told party members that he had not declared his intention to contest the 2027 Abia State governorship election, said he was still consulting, listening to the national leadership of the APC and ‘waiting for signal.’
“If you want to work for the President, join APC. The President will not leave APC and support a non-APC member.”
The Deputy Speaker, who told party members that he had not declared his intention to contest the 2027 Abia State governorship election, said he was still consulting, listening to the national leadership of the APC and ‘waiting for signal.’
Kalu also alleged that he was being insulted daily by hired social media agents recruited in Abia State, adding that his activities, including empowerment programmes, were being wrongly monitored and misinterpreted as a 2027 governorship ambition.