We Stand With Kalu On Demand For Good Governance – Abia APC

The Abia authorities section of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has backed the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, successful demanding bully governance and accountability from the Labour Party-led medication successful the state.

At the weekend, Kalu, an APC member, tackled Alex Otti’s Labour Party authorities implicit issues of transparency and accountability, declaring that his enactment would instrumentality implicit the authorities successful the 2027 wide election.

Expressing enactment for the lawman speaker’s claims, the Abia authorities APC, successful a connection by its Acting Publicity Secretary, Uche Egboka, reiterated its committedness to rescuing the authorities from “poor governance.”

“The All Progressives Congress (APC), Abia State Chapter, has observed with interest the increasing hostility and unwarranted mudslinging directed astatine the idiosyncratic of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, pursuing his remarks during the roadworthy commissioning astatine the Aba Township Stadium connected October 3rd, and his consequent engagement astatine Abia Hotels, Umuahia, connected October 5th, 2025.

“His statements, which bordered connected the issues of transparency, accountability, and bully governance successful the Labour Party, led by the Abia State Government, person been met with needless idiosyncratic attacks alternatively of constructive engagement.

“The APC successful Abia State stands firmly with the Deputy Speaker successful his presumption that, based connected disposable records, the Abia State Government has received an mean of N38 cardinal monthly betwixt April and June 2025 arsenic full revenue.
“Based connected empirical evidence, the fig and scope of ongoing projects successful the authorities are not commensurate with the implicit N1 trillion received since the inception of the contiguous administration. The Abia APC, therefore, aligns with the Deputy Speaker’s telephone for much transparency and the execution of projects that genuinely bespeak the immense funds received and interaction the lives of Abians,” the connection work successful parts.

The Party demanded an probe into the N54 cardinal allegedly spent connected renovating 51 nationalist schools successful 2024, which has remained controversial.

It supported the Deputy Speaker’s request for the outgo of outstanding gratuities and the afloat implementation of the nationalist minimum wage, arsenic the Federal Government approved and signed it into law.

“The Abia APC reiterates its committedness to rescuing the authorities from mediocre governance. We stock successful the Deputy Speaker’s assurance that the All Progressives Congress volition instrumentality implicit the enactment of Abia State travel 2027 done the people’s corporate will.

“The APC remains committed to aligning with the Federal Government to beforehand bully governance, accountability, and the payment of each Abians,” the connection concluded.