Video clip/reel of Benjamin Kalu titled by its Facebook uploader as, “APC must takeover Abia – 2027”:
🔗 https://web.facebook.com/reel/2224583561287328
Commenting on the weird postulations of Benjamin Kalu (Deputy Speaker of Nigeria’s House of Representatives) in this video clip link above, where he was praising what he described as the extraordinary benevolence of Tinubu to the Igbo-East for creating the South-East Development Commission and also boasting that his Party will take over Abia State Governorship in 2027 by whatever means necessary, Tony Nnadi wrote as follows:
The creation of the so-called South-East Development Commission and other Zonal Development Commissions, which represents the grab of further powers by the Federal Government for itself to the detriment of the already emasculated Federating Units (States), in a Unitary Union already dying from the over-centralization of powers, represents a further departure from the federal imperative and autonomy for federating units.
This is because the Zonal Development Commissions are Federal Government agencies that would usurp the developmental powers and resources that should be vested in the Federating Units. The Commissions would thus take upon themselves the responsibility for the Zones, which should have been the prerogative of the Federating Units (States).
Same as the so-called Local Government Autonomy, in which the Federal Government takes direct charge over the allocation of resources to Local Governments, as well as over elections to Local Councils.
These two structural and policy adjustments (Zonal Development Commissions and Local Government Autonomy) translate into further erosion of the autonomy and powers of Federating Units by a rapacious and omnipotent Federal Government.
It is a tragedy that this fellow called Benjamin Kalu does not understand the calamity represented by the Federal Government’s creation of a South-East Development Commission as a quick escape route from the trenchant demands for regional autonomy and the burgeoning agitations for outright exit from the distressed Nigerian Union. To now flaunt that calamity as a great act of benevolence by Tinubu and APC to the Igbo-East is mind-boggling and offers us a peep into the hollowness of those imposed by Nigeria on the Igbo as their representatives. Same goes for the weird suggestion and argument for how Abia State must be snatched for his Party (APC), the ruling Party in Abuja, since he, being Deputy Speaker, is high up in the hierarchy of that Party.
There is no way to comprehend the depth of arrogance and folly contained in these postulations by Benjamin Kalu than to conclude that the variety of madness that often afflicts the wielders of power may have located our kinsman, Benjamin. Who will be kind enough to explain what a Federation is to this lost brother?
It would be recalled that NINAS had cause in the past to rebuke Benjamin Kalu for announcing that the National Assembly of Nigeria would give Nigerians a brand-new Constitution in two years. Though he quickly recanted after the challenge by NINAS, acknowledging that the National Assembly had no power to make any Constitution for the Peoples of Nigeria, it appears he needs a lengthy tutorial on what a Federation is. Here is that rebuke with a link to it:
Fraud Alert – 2: Compounding the Treason and Fraud of 1999: A NINAS Note of Caution to Nigeria’s National Assembly.
NINAS Secretariat, 01 March 2024
https://ninasmovementnews.substack.com/p/fraud-alert-2-compounding-the-treason