The Conference of Civil Society Of Nigeria, CCSN has condemned the recent statements by the Coalition of Northern Patriots Front, South West Professionals
and Coalition of Arewa Group accusing Hon Benjamin Kalu of betraying the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The Coalition said, ”The race for the Speakership of the 10th House of Reps is serious business and not some monkey business as exhibited by a motley of rag-tag, unknown and unregistered Coalition of so-called Northern Patriots Front, South West Professionals and Coalition of Arewa Group.
”It is instructive that context be given to the Hon. Kalu matrix in the build-up to the February polls. Owing to the obvious inevitability of his return to office, his campaign offices and materials were targeted so much so that over 100 bullets were counted when some it was attacked. It is also on record that he was undeterred and campaigned vigorously for the APC and Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a presidential candidate in Abia State. They say pictures do not lie and this is a fact as Hon.
”Records bear witness that Hon. Kalu has a robust participation in various debates, through the number of bills and motions he has sponsored in the House. It is established that he sponsored one of the highest number of bills among the new members of the House with about 43 bills amongst which 2 or 3 have gotten Presidential Assent, while the others have progressed from one level to the other. This level of competence can only be fueled and sustained by experience and intelligence.
”One of the issues raised by the unregistered civil society organization is the issue of loyalty. We are not unaware of attempts by a certain individual in the Senate to truncate the rise of Hon. Benjamin Kalu to his own advantage. But at every turn of playing the devil’s advocate, he has failed and like the Biblical Balak, what he intends Balaam to do turns out to be an elixir, a blessing for advancement and forward moving.
”These lies were bandied around, cooked up, spread around to make sure that the spotless image of Benjamin Kalu was dented with scandals, the benefactor who conceived this particular idea of spoiling the name of Benjamin Kalu remains with a stigma that he was an ex-convict and the fact remains that as an ex-convict as alleged in his affidavit, he was not even supposed to be in the last election, so for somebody like that to put up a kangaroo group together asking for Benjamin Kalu to be...
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