{"id":64913,"date":"2025-04-27T05:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64913"},"modified":"2025-04-27T05:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T05:01:47","slug":"kalu-urges-ndigbo-to-ride-with-tinubu-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/27\/kalu-urges-ndigbo-to-ride-with-tinubu-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalu Urges Ndigbo to Ride with Tinubu Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has made a passionate call for the Southeast to rally behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s second term ambition ahead of the 2027 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a courtesy visit in Umuahia by the Tinubu Mandate Support Group, Abia State Chapter, and Club 17 Initiative, Kalu praised Tinubu\u2019s bold economic, social, and political reforms, describing the president as a visionary leader intent on rewriting Nigeria\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu hailed Tinubu as a &#8220;good product&#8221; worthy of renewed trust, urging Ndigbo to align with their Southwest brothers to secure Tinubu\u2019s reelection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu is intentional about this country. He loves Nigeria and is making shifts we have never seen before,\u201d Kalu declared.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Speaker, who recounted his early support for Tinubu\u2019s presidential bid, assured the groups of his unwavering loyalty to the president\u2019s cause.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the need for Southeast voters to invest their political capital where progress is visible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur business is to tell the people the good works of President Tinubu. We must stand firm as Ndi Igbo on his mandate,\u201d Kalu charged.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu also expressed optimism that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would capture the Abia State governorship in 2027, applauding Club 17\u2019s peace initiatives and voter mobilization efforts across wards.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, leaders of the visiting groups reaffirmed their commitment to President Tinubu\u2019s reelection and pledged continuous support for Kalu\u2019s leadership drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oso Abidemi\u00a0 Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has made a passionate call for the Southeast to rally behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s second term ambition ahead of the 2027 elections. Speaking during a courtesy visit in Umuahia by the Tinubu Mandate Support Group, Abia State Chapter, and Club 17 Initiative, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64915,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64913\/revisions\/64915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}