The Chief Staff to the President and former House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila has urged stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Southeast to make the party the best choice in the region.
Speaking when he hosted a delegation of the APC stakeholders from Abia State, Gbajabiamila also said there was need for them to embrace peace and unity to entrench the party in the state and other parts of the general.
The Chief of Staff stressed that unity is a sine qua non to achieving the lofty ideals of the party in the Southeast.
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The Abia APC stakeholders had visited the former Speaker in his house to thank him for the role he played in the election of Benjamin Kalu in becoming the Deputy Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives and the nomination of Nkiruka Onyejiocha as the Minister of State for Labour and Employment as well as the appointment of Sam Onuigbo as a member of the North East Development Commission (NEDC) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Gbajabiamila, who expressed surprise at the huge number of frontline Abians in the delegation, assured them that the doors of the Federal Government under President Tinubu were open to them at all times.
Leaders of the delegation – Senator Adighije, Senator Nkechi Nwogu, the former minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Nwogu and a member of APC National Caucus, Chief Sam Nkire – expressed gratitude to Gbajabiamila for facilitating the election and appointment of their compatriots to various top government positions, among others.
Applauding Gbajabiamila for mentoring Kalu, the Abia leaders recalled that the mentorship started in the early days of the Ninth House of Representatives when he was Speaker and gave Kalu the opportunity to move the first motion during plenary.
The said it was no surprise that Gbajabiamila later appointed Kalu the spokesman of the House, a position they said prepared him for his current office.