2027 Presidential Election: President Tinubu ‘ll Get 70% Votes In Southeast With Ease- Reps Deputy Speaker

Although the 2027 presidential election is still two years away and political parties have not begun their campaign trails, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Benjamin Kalu, has asserted that President Bola Tinubu will get more than 70 per cent votes in the Southeast in the election in question.

Igbo people, he noted, would be doing this to appreciate the president for his commitment to the development of Igbo land.

Team@orientactualmags.com learned that Kalu said this in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Levinus Nwabughiogu, on Friday.

President Tinubu, he added, has fulfilled the promise of rehabilitation, reconstruction and reconciliation made by the military administration headed by retired General Yakubu Gowon through the creation of the South East Development Commission.

The Deputy Speaker spoke during the grand reception held in his honour by the Atuma Grace Movement, a political structure of a former member of the House of Representatives, Emeka Atuma .

The event was held in Ntalakwu, Ikwuano Local Government, Abia State on Friday,

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Kalu, who was honoured with the chieftaincy title of Dike Eji Aga Mba (The people’s warrior) by the traditional ruler of Ntalakwu ancient kingdom in Ikwuano Oboro, King Larry, also promised that the South East people will continue to support the President Bola Tinubu administration.

‘We are promising the President, 70 to 80 per cent of votes from Igboland. Let us continue to remain as people who love peace and unity. No other President has remembered the promise made to the Igbo people after the war like President Bola Tinubu.

Fifty years came and passed, administrations came and passed, none of them deemed it right to fulfil those promises made to Ndi Igbo, and only President Bola Tinubu took it upon himself and said, there must be a platform to respond to those proposals made to Ndi Igbo.

He chose the South East Development Commission which no other President accepted to sign. He answered our problems to enable us to develop the rural communities in Igboland. He signed the SEDC bill into law and has funded it even when naysayers said he wouldn’t. He loves Ndi Igbo and we Igbo people remember those who love us’ the statement quoted him as saying.

Giving his take on the public outcry that the authorities in Abia are frustrating an interface between traditional rulers and State officials, Kalu condemned the development saying ‘it is an ill wind that blows the people no good’.

‘I heard the cry of the traditional ruler who mentioned that he was asked not to come and receive the Deputy Speaker by the powers-that-be in the state when we were received in Bende.

We heard that they were asked not to receive those from the Federal Government, asked not to go to any function promoting President Bola Tinubu. It ought not to be so! The election has come and gone. Now, it is time for governance. Restricting the traditional rulers from coming to welcome those working with the President is not the right leadership that Abia State is looking for.

Those who are threatening the traditional rulers, please, we beg you, allow them the freedom to exercise the mandate of the people. Abia State should be free for everybody to express where they want to belong and who they want to follow’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com  Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com.  Thank you