The Chief of Staff (CoS) to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has enjoined stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State to embrace peace and unity for the enrooting of the party in the state and the south-east in general.
Gbajabiamila, who is the immediate past Speaker of the House of Representatives, gave the charge when a group of Abia APC stakeholders paid him a courtesy visit at his Abuja residence on Saturday.
The visit, MUK TV learned, was to thank the President’s Chief of Staff for his immense contribution to the election of Hon. Benjamin Kalu, who is from Abia, as the Deputy Speaker of the 10th House of Representatives and subsequent appointments of other indigenes of the state.
Minister-Designate for State, Labour and Employment, Hon. Nkiruka Onyejiocha, and Hon. Sam Onuigbo, Board Member of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), two appointees from Abia state favoured by President Tinubu’s appointment, were also in attendance.
Speaking in an interactive session with the stakeholders, Gbajabiamila assured them that the federal government’s doors under President Tinubu were open to them at all times.
He, however, implored the stakeholders to work assiduously to make APC the number one party in the southeast, assuring that it would boost the region’s fortunes in no small measure.
Earlier in their separate remarks, the stakeholders, through their leaders, Senator Adighije, Senator Nkechi Nwogu, the former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Nwogu, and a member of the APC National Caucus, Chief Sam Nkire, expressed gratitude to Gbajabiamila for facilitating Kalu’s election and the appointment of Hon. Onyejiocha and Hon. Onuigbo, amongst others.
While applauding Hon. Gbajabiamila for mentoring Hon. Kalu, the leaders recalled with nostalgia that the mentorship started in the early days of the 9th House of Representatives when the Chief of Staff, as the then Speaker, allowed Hon. Kalu to move the first motion during the plenary session.
It was no surprise that Hon. Gbajabiamila later appointed Hon. Kalu the spokesman of the House, a position they said prepared him for his current office.
The leaders also appealed to the chief of staff to use his good office to attract more appointments for the state and the region, pledging their loyalty to the Tinubu-led government.
