Former Abia State Governor and
Senator-Elect, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, has said Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila is the
candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the position of speaker in
the 9th assembly.
Kalu said this on Sunday in Abuja
when Gbajabiamila led a delegation from his campaign Organisation on visit to
his house to solicit for support.
The senator-elect, representing
Abia Central, pledged to offer necessary support to ensure his victory as
speaker.
He said that Gbajabiamila was not
a candidate of Sen. Ahmed Tinubu, the APC National Leader as being speculated
by some sections of the society.
“There is no doubt that people
have been blackmailing you that you are a candidate of Tinubu, but the
president have told us collectively and individually that you are a candidate
of the APC.
“In my private section with Mr.
President recently, he said his two candidates for the leadership of the 9th
National Assembly are Lawan, for the Senate President and Femi for Speaker,
House of Representatives.
“His choice of the two candidates
is because the president believes that they can defend the interest of the
party. Since he has said so, you are not Tinubu’s candidate,” he said.
Kalu said that Gbajabiamila was a
bipartisan candidate for every political party represented in the 9th National
Assembly, NAN reports.
According to him, constitutional
democracy requires that the majority party produces leaders of the assembly.
“The era of a minority party
leading the National Assembly had gone since Nigeria was operating
constitutional democracy.
“The thinking that the precedent
of the 8th assembly would continue, people should know that it would not be
possible.
“We have concluded the issues on
senate leadership and I can assure you that between now and four days, we will
conclude that of the House of Representatives.
“We have no alternative as
legislators than to come together as one big family and support the President
to realise his next level agenda.
“We need to support the president
in rebuilding the economy because we need to concentrate in giving Nigerians
economic prosperity,” he added.
Gbajabiamila, on his part said
the visit was to solicit support, encouragement and blessings from the former
governor and senator-elect, adding that his campaign team had gone round the
country soliciting for support.
He said that his 30 years
cumulative legislative experience would give him an edge, adding that he had achieved,
even when he was in the minority.
According to him, the 9th
assembly is going to be an assembly like no other because things are going to
be done differently.
“The Office of the Speaker is
going to be an office of all Nigerians irrespective of ethnic group, religion
and political party affiliation.
“We intend to run an inclusive
9th assembly because the theme of our campaign is ‘Nation Building’, and a
Joint Task is our logo.
“We embedded mini logos of every
single party represented in the National Assembly.
“It is going to be a joint task
for all of us, we don’t believe one single political party can do it alone,” he
said.
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