Deputy Speaker of the Home of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, has welcomed over 3,000 new members from totally different political events to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State.
A number of the decampees included the previous Deputy Speaker of the Abia State Home of Meeting and former member of the Home of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Stanley.
The mass defection occurred in Akwete, Ndoki, in Ukwa East Native Authorities Space of Abia throughout an empowerment programme by the member representing Ukwa East and Ukwa West Federal Constituency of the State within the Home of Representatives, Hon. Chris Nkwonta.
Addressing a gathering from Ukwa East and Ukwa West Native Authorities areas, adorned with the APC’s iconic broom image, Kalu revealed that an inflow of latest defections to the get together is imminent.
The Deputy Speaker mentioned that the defection is a mirrored image of the individuals’s gratitude to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has proven dedication to the Igbo individuals’s growth, particularly by means of the creation of the South East Growth Fee (SEDC).
Kalu, in a press release on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Levinus Nwabughiogu, mentioned that the institution of the Fee will primarily cater for the infrastructure wants of the area.
It will likely be recalled that Nkwonta, who chairs the Home Committee on South East Growth Fee, lately defected to the APC from the Individuals’s Democratic Get together (PDP).
Kalu mentioned, “The President has tried for Ndigbo. He’s nonetheless attempting for Ndigbo. He’s the one man that remembered Ndigbo after 54 years {that a} promise of reconstruction, reconciliation and rehabilitation was made to Ndigbo.
“He got here with the spirit of fairness and equity. He’s a frontrunner who believes in growth. He signed the invoice into regulation in order that the harm attributable to the Civil Warfare might be rebuilt.
“Because the chief of our get together, he has requested us to galvanise the grassroots and produce them nearer to the politics of growth that he’s bringing to the Igbo land.
“For taking this resolution to hitch APC, it shall be nicely with you. APC has come nearer to the individuals. On behalf of our get together, we welcome you. We all know who you might be and what you might be able to doing.
“When these caliber of individuals left PDP and different events and joined the APC, what once more is left? The events have collapsed. All people is right here. We are going to empower you to empower others.”
Kalu, who was additionally honoured with a chieftaincy title of “Ogbuagu Ndi Igbo,” that means “a brave chief,” urged the individuals to proceed to help the federal government of President Tinubu, assuring that Ukwa East and Ukwa West Federal Constituency, Abia as a State and certainly, Igbo land might be profit from extra democracy dividends.
