Deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Benjamin Kalu, South-East governors and Ohanaeze are not on warpath with the unveiling of the Peace In South East Project (PISE-P), the chief press secretary to Kalu, Levinus Nwabughiogu, has said.
Nwabughiogu, in a statement released in Abuja on Sunday, described as unfortunate, a plethora of sponsored gibberish from both conventional news platforms and online medium, all aimed at casting aspersions on the person and the office of the deputy speaker for championing a worthy cause.
“In quick succession to the event, a national newspaper on Sunday, December 31, 2023 went on a wild goose chase, perhaps, on envy spree, publishing a heresy, more of a distillation of garbage called news, saying that the launch of PISE-P has put the deputy speaker, the governors of the five eastern states and the Ohanaeze Ndi Igbo worldwide on a warpath.
“It also said Kalu is on a chase with Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State over who controls the south east politics in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
“This is to say the least, a hogwash, indeed, a fabrication of lies that passes for tales by moonlight. At best, it is the figment of the overheated imagination of the author of the report and his Newspaper.
“Ordinarily, the Office of the Deputy Speaker would not bat an eyelid over the such claptrap of a publication that lacks simple journalistic ethics of attribution to a story but because we owe the unsuspecting members of the public the huge responsibility of protecting them, this rebuttal, then, becomes very necessary,” he said.
Nwabughiogu maintained that the deputy speaker is not looking for a fiefdom to exert his control over as those who know him can admit that he is only passionate about the peace, unity, growth and development of his native region.
“As a true son of Igbo land, Kalu is very much concerned and greatly distressed by the security challenges that had bedevilled the south eastern geopolitical hemisphere of the country for a while now.
“What is expected of any son of the soil and the occupant of an office such as his is to galvanize the people and deploy the influence of his office to find the panacea for the travails of the zone. And this is precisely what Kalu has done and still doing with PISE-P,” the statement added.
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