Sunday, November 1, 2026 -The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, on Saturday claimed that President Bola Tinubu is the messiah that the Southeast has been waiting for since the end of the Biafra civil war.
Kalu
made the remark while noting that the South-East will ensure that Tinubu is
reelected in 2027.
The
Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives spoke during the All
Progressives Congress, APC, women's empowerment rally in Enugu State.
He
said Tinubu loves people of the South-East, claiming that when he was governor,
nobody arrested or confiscated their properties in Lagos State.
Kalu
recalled how Tinubu appointed Ben Akabueze to his cabinet while he was governor
of Lagos State.
He
said: "For now our mandate is to support the man that has been supporting
us, this man has not hidden his love for Ndi-Igbo, when he was the governor of
Lagos State, no Igbo property was taken, no Igbo who was a businessman was
arrested.
"Then
he was the only man who brought an Igbo man into his cabinet, Ben Akabueze, it
has never happened before.
"I
need to remind you that after the civil war we waited for 60 years for the
promise that was made to the people of Igboland that was not kept. The three Rs
they taught us in government, Reconciliation, Reconstruction, and
Reintegration; government after government ignored us. Administrations after
administrations ignored the Igbos and we were waiting when will the messiah
come to save the Igbos.
"Then
came a man who loved the Igbos from his heart, the Southeast Development
Commission has been going to the parliament from year to year, assembly to
assembly and they refused to sign it, but when Tinubu came, the Southeast
Development Commission became a commission.
"He
gave us bridge, roads, and scholarship, why won't we reelect him again, he will
return again."
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