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Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has said the people of South East region have unanimously agreed to vote for President Bola Tinubu in the 2027 presidential poll.
Kalu, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary ( CPS), Levinus Nwabughiogu, stated this at the flag off of the All Progressives Congress ( APC) Women’s Mobilization Campaign/ South East Women Empowerment Programme by First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu in Enugu on Saturday.
The Deputy Speaker, who recalled that President Tinubu during his time as governor of Lagos State from 1999 to 2007 appointed Igbo people in his government, said for now, the mandate of Ndi Igbo is to support the man that has been supporting them.
According to him, ” This man has not hidden his love for Ndi Igbo. During his time as the governor of Lagos State, no Igbo property was taken. Nobody who was a business man in Lagos was arrested. Mr. Ben Akabueze was an Igbo man that he brought into his cabinet as Governor. It has never happened before. I hope we will reciprocate his kind gestures to Ndi Igbo. We must do so this time”.
Kalu who is also the Director-General of APC Presidential Campaign Council 11 (South) recalled that after the civil war, the promise of the 3Rs of Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration made to Ndigbo was not kept until Tinubu became President.
“I also need to remind you that after the civil war, we waited for almost 60 years for a promise that was made to the people of Igbo land that was not kept. The 3Rs: Reconciliation, Reconstruction and Reintegration. Was the promise kept or not? It wasn’t kept.
“Government after government but they ignored us. Administration after administration, they ignored the Igbo and we were waiting and asking, when will the messiah come to save the Igbo? Then came a man who loves the Igbo from his heart.
“South East Development Commission Bill has been in the Parliament from year to year, Assembly to Assembly, they refused to sign it into law. But when President Tinubu came, South East Development Commission became a commission under the law. Tinubu is a warrior, a great President”, he said.
Furthermore, he stated that President President is building roads, constructing bridges, giving scholarships and loans, while the First Lady is doing empowerment to help the women of the South East and urged the people to come out en masse on January 16, 2027 and vote for President Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima.
“To this end, I am appealing to Ndi Igbo, come January 16, 2027, we don’t have any other candidate. The Igbo are complete. The governors are complete. Abia is here. Enugu is here. Imo is here. Anambra is here. South East is complete. Ndi Igbo have unanimously agreed that we will return President Tinubu and Vice President Shettima in 2027 to continue their good work,” Kalu said.
