Deputy speaker, House of Representatives, Ben Kalu has asserted that the performance of Abia State governor, Alex Otti is below the inflow of funds even as he said there had been some progress.
Kalu stated this while addressing a crowd of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his supporters in Umuahia, the state capital, urging the governor to do the needful.
He challenged the Labour Party (LP) governor to do more and not compare his achievements to those of his predecessors who, he claimed, got far lesser funds.
The representative of Bende federal constituency said his predecessors were receiving between N4 billion and N5 billion monthly as against his N38 billion to N40 billion.
He maintained “You cannot be getting the kind of money you are getting and you are doing the job that former governors did with the less they were getting.
“Former governors T. A Orji and Okezie Ikpeazu were receiving N4 billion to N5 billion. And you want us in all fairness to compare you with the N38 to N40 billion that comes in now?”
He noted that the way out was for the people to get ready to end the governor’s administration by voting for the APC to ally the state with the rulling party in the country.
“We are going to take over Abia in 2027; we want to work with the President to move our state forward”, continued the second term Green Chamber member.
Kalu urged the people to get their voter’s card ready before the on-going continuous voter registration is over to qualify them to participate in electoral process.
Vowing not to be rescind his stand and criticisms against the administration by the verbal attacks trailing his stance he insisted that he will continue to speak for the masses.
”We can be friends, we can be family but as long as we are in another political party, our job is to be the watchdog of the administration,” he added.
”The leader of this administration might be my friend, but I am opposition leader. And as opposition leader, I must speak for the masses.”
The deputy speaker, therefore explained that the taking over would not be by the use of ‘federal might’ contrary to insinuations but by popular votes.
