{"id":241519,"date":"2026-02-15T15:27:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/2027-join-us-re-elect-tinubu-reps-dep-speaker-woos-abia-lawmaker\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:27:53","slug":"2027-join-us-re-elect-tinubu-reps-dep-speaker-woos-abia-lawmaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/2027-join-us-re-elect-tinubu-reps-dep-speaker-woos-abia-lawmaker\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Join us re-elect Tinubu \u2013 Reps Dep speaker woos Abia lawmaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has appealed to the lawmaker representing Obingwa West Constituency in <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/abia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abia <\/a>State House of Assembly, Erondu Uchenna Erondu, to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, and support President Bola Tinubu\u2019s re-election in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu made the appeal during a courtesy visit to Erondu, saying Erondu\u2019s time in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expired.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it is time for Erondu to join the APC and contribute to the party\u2019s growth and development.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives Deputy Speaker assured that the APC has a bigger platform for everyone and urged the lawmaker to bring his team to join the party.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded Erondu for the empowerment he held in Obingwa council and the people to join the Renewed Hope Partners, a group working to promote President Tinubu\u2019s agenda at the grassroots level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy reason for coming here is because I promised my host that I will grace his empowerment programme. But on that day, it was very difficult for me to come because of national assignments. I later called and told him I would still come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have come a long way together. We were local government chairmen at the same time. Some said we were too young at the time but we persisted and today, we are making impacts. I came to congratulate him on the successful outing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was monitoring virtually and I saw what you did. It was amazing. For a House of Assembly member to do what you did, it means you love your constituents. God will reward you. My message to ndi Obingwa is for you to continue supporting him for more democracy dividends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has appealed to the lawmaker representing Obingwa West Constituency in Abia State House of Assembly, Erondu Uchenna Erondu, to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, and support President Bola Tinubu\u2019s re-election in 2027. Kalu made the appeal during a courtesy visit to Erondu, saying Erondu\u2019s time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":241520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[176],"tags":[283,199,179],"class_list":["post-241519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abia","tag-283","tag-abia","tag-tinubu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Benjamin-Kalu-3-1280x720-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}