Former Governor of Abia State, Mr. Orji Uzor Kalu
Samson Folarin
A former governor of Abia State, Dr.
Orji Uzor Kalu, has lamented his treatment by his former party, the
People’s Democratic Party despite being a major ‘stakeholder.’
Kalu said he gave the party its first
N500m and supported the election of former President Olusegun Obasanjo
with N100m, adding that if the PDP were a company, he owned 90 per cent
of its share.
The ex-governor spoke on Monday in Washington DC, United States of America, during a dinner.
Kalu, who spoke on many issues,
including his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
fight against corruption in Nigeria, the economy, lauded judges in the
US for their courage, urging Nigerian judges to emulate them.
He said the PDP hunted him for his
ambition to run for the office of the president in 2007 and for opposing
the third term agenda of Obasanjo.
He said, “All of you know that if the
PDP were a company, I ought to own 90 per cent of it because in 1998, I
gave the party its first N500m. By then, I wasn’t in government. I also
gave the presidential candidate, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, over N100m in
1998.
“How many Nigerians would have done
that? Yet the same government, the same PDP, took my bank, took my
airline, took my oil licence to put me out of business entirely because I
proposed that I must run for president in 2007; I also opposed the 3rd
term, which they are denying today.”
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