Abia APC stakeholders endorse Kalu, Onyejeocha for NASS leadership positions


Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia have endorsed Senator-elect Orji Kalu and Representative Nkiru Onyejeocha for key positions in the 9th National Assembly.

Whereas Kalu, the former governor of Abia state represents Abia North senatorial district, for the deputy senate president, while Onyejeocha, representing Isuikwuato/Umunneochi federal constituency for the speakership of the House of Representatives.

The endorsement, which followed a meeting that took place at Camp Neya, was sequel to a motion moved at the meeting by Senator Chris Adighije, the Abia APC caucus leader.
He described the candidacy of Kalu and Onyejeocha as a collective project for all the party faithful, saying that everybody had a role to play toward its realisation.

Adighije, who represented Abia central from 2003-2007, promised to reach out to his friends in the senate and House of Representatives to solicit their votes for the candidates.
“There is need for a postmortem to enable us to examine the reasons why we lost the governorship election after putting all our efforts,” he said.
Adighije admonished the state APC chairman Chief Donatus Nwankpa “to stand more firmly and resolute” in his actions, adding that his position at any point in time also represents the position of the party.
Onyejeocha spoke of the need for the party members to join the struggle for Ndigbo to produce the next Nigeria’s president in 2023.
“We need to produce the next president of Nigeria so that our fortunes will change,” she said and advocated that any party faithful found to have worked against the interest of the party during the general elections should be made to leave the party.
In his speech to welcome the stakeholders to the meeting, Kalu said that he learnt that some party members “sabotaged the party during the general elections.
“This should be investigated at the state, zonal and local government levels to ascertain those that allegedly worked against the party,” he said.

Earlier, the party chairman had announced that the state executive committee (EXCO) had set up a five-member committee to examine the prospects of all the petitions filed by the party candidates at the tribunal to recover the party’s stolen mandate at all levels of the elections.
“The party is now set to take up the responsibilities of members whose petitions have prospects, with a view to recovering our stolen mandates”, Nwankpa said.

He said that some candidates were suspected to have worked for the opposition during the polls.

In the same vein, the party leadership has distanced itself from any list of nominees for political appointment purportedly sent by the state chapter of the party to President Muhammadu Buhari.

According to Nwankpa, the purported list did not emanate from the execo and should therefore be regarded as fake.

He said that the president had not requested for nominees from Abia and none was compiled nor sent to Abuja. (NAN)


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