Okey Sampson, Aba
The All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives member-elect for Bende Federal Constituency in the just concluded presidential and National Assembly election, Chief Benjamin Kalu, has said the defeated candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the Abia North senatorial poll, Senator Mao Ohuabunwa, is no match for the former governor of the state and senator-elect of the district, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu.
Speaking at Bende town in Bende Local Government Area of Abia State, against the backdrop of statements credited to Ohuabunwa since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the former governor winner, the Reps member-elect said Ohuabunwa is too small a person to challenge Kalu in any political contest.
“Who is Mao in the first place? It was Kalu, who cleared the route for him to go to the House of Representatives. In fact, he tasted his first political office at the benevolence of Kalu.
“If it were in places where honour and respect are given to whom it is due, Mao, no matter the pressure from any quarter, would not have agreed to enter into any form of political contest against Kalu.
“Mao, in all honesty, is supposed to be a political son to Kalu, and I’ve not seen where a son challenges his father in a contest; the Igbo made it clear what would happen to such a recalcitrant son, and that is exactly what has befallen Mao.
“Why Mao is ranting after the election is because in 2015, he connived with some dubious and evil politicians in the state to steal the mandate given to Kalu by Abia North people and, perhaps, that made him to believe he has arrived politically and now at par with Kalu.
The federal lawmaker in waiting said with PDP no longer controlling the government at the centre, Ohuabunwa does not realise that his rigging machinery has been demobilised, which resulted in the former governor trouncing him mercilessly at the polls.”
He said he was happy that Ohuabunwa, who he described his representation in the Senate in the past four years as colossal waste of time, has been cut to size, adding that he should rather approach the election tribunal when inaugurated, than wasting his time and deceiving the public about an election he lost woefully.