….Insists South South with many aspirants ‘ve betrayed South East
From Fred Itua, Abuja
Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has replied a Niger Delta leader, Edwin Clark, saying that he didn’t betray the South East.
Clark, had in a media report, erroneously labeled Kalu a betrayal and claimed that he was not in support of South East presidency.
In a statement personally signed by Kalu, he tackled Clark and wondered why the elder statesman didn’t call his kinsmen from the South South, plotting to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari to order.
Kalu said though he respects Clark as an elder statesman, he will not however allow his unsubstantiated claims to go unchallenged.
Kalu said: “I have great respect for Chief Edwin Clark. He is an elder statesman and a patriotic Nigerian. I want to sincerely commend him for openly supporting the South East geopolitical zone to produce the next President of Nigeria.
“It is imperative that I remind him that I didn’t betray my people. Rather, I am doing my best to reintegrate them into mainstream politics.
“In the last two years, I have been at the forefront agitating for a Nigerian President of South East extraction, when most of them were all saying “Southern Presidency”.
“None of these actors openly said the South East geopolitical zone should have it. I was shocked that even the zone the entire South East supported in unity, including myself in 2011 and 2015 respectively, has the highest number of contestants without thinking of their brothers.
“This is knowing fully well that the South East zone has remained the only zone in Southern Nigeria that has not produced the nation’s president since the rotation convention dispensation that began in 1999.
“Coming to this late hour to support the South East is rather suspicious to me if they couldn’t do it two years ago. The truth is, Chief Edwin Clark knows the South East cannot get the ticket of any party in an open contest as it is today without a gentleman agreement to concede it to them.”
Continuing, he said: “If all the aspirants from the South West and South South cannot support their brothers from the South East, it is only politically correct to support the North East geo political zone, which to me is the shortest route for the South East geopolitical zone to produce the president after their eight years instead of waiting for another 16 years.
“It is rather surprising to me that Chief Edwin Clark didn’t call the majority of other Southerners including governors working against the South East to order or the names he called me.
“What did you say or do when all the aspirants from South South and South West were buying forms to run against South Easterners who have always supported them .
“I know some people want us to keep quiet and then allow other Southerners take turn of South East. If you meant well for the South East , you could have discouraged other aspirants against running for President. Nothing stops the South supporting only presidential aspirants from the South East . The betrayers are those who don’t care about South East . We are wiser.
“Let me also inform the elderstatesman that majority of the Southerners in his party (PDP) are secretly supporting a Northeasterner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The welfare of my people is a passion that is driving me, I am not doing anything to advance my personal interest or seek personal glorification. I also lost my businesses fighting for the political interest of the Igbos. I cannot betray them now if I didn’t do it yesterday.”
Of course, any Igbo man or woman who is a member
of that Axis of Evil Party of Igbophobes ,the so called
APC, is a Quisling and indeed a damned traitor.
Thus, the Igbere ex- con and jailbird, Orji Uzor Kalu and
his fellow Igbo Reprobates of APC remained silent when their Principal,President Buhari ordered an invasion of Igboland on the 30th of May 2016.
Hundreds of our flagbearing and unarmed Igbo
children were then slaughtered in cold blood by the Nigerian Army and Police in Cities and Towns
throught out Igboland.
They also maintained an equanimity of Pontius Pilate
when President Buhari designated our Millennials of
IPOB as a Terrorist Group and did follow that up by
ordering his gobbldygook Python Dance i,ii and iii
Military Operations of pogroms against our innocent
and unarmed Igbo children.
President Buhari went even further, to refer to our
South East as a mere dot in a circle, and he vowed to
teach our Igbo children the lessons their parents were
taught during the Biafran-Nigerian War of 1967 to 1970.
The President did make good on his above promise by
launching the ogoing Operation Golden Dawn in our.
Igboland.
Given the current siege on Igboland at the behest of
Mallam Muhammadu Buhari, true sons and daughters
of Ndigbo in APC Party ,ought to have left the Party
in protest, because of the ongoing daily exterminations
of our Igbo children since Mallam Buhari took over
the Presidency in 2015.
Damned traitors like Orji Uzor Kalu and his fellow
Igbo members of APC Party seem to have forgotten that they were elected to represent the interest of Ndigbo in their APC Government.
But that they aren’t doing so, does indeed expose
them as traitors.
One might wonder why our erstwhile Governor of
our God’s Own Christian State of Abia, Dr Orji Uzor
Kalu could like a clown stoop so low to get himself
first turbaned by the Abokis and now,he wants to play the second fiddle for Mallam Ahmed Lawan as his
Vice President come 2023?
Oh dear!
If that isn’t a betrayal of Ndigbo,what then is that
called?
That Igbere ex – con and jailbird, Orjji Uzor Kalu is indeed a damned traitor.