‘Orji Kalu is a drowning politician’ – Governor T. Orji

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Theodore Orji

The Abia State Government has responded to statements made by former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu describing the State as backward and not working under the regime of its current Governor, Theodore Orji.

In a statement released to journalists, by the Senior Special Assistant on Print Media to Abia State governor, Eddie Onuzuruike, the government said Orji Kalu was a drowning politician looking for something to latch onto in order to remain relevant.

Part of the statement reads, “Former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, in his uncharitable and self-serving manner, had said during a recent programme aired on African Independent Television (AIT) that Abia is not working.

“That comment is laughable because Umu-Abia know that it is now that real and genuine development is being witnessed in the state.

“Kalu is a drowning politician, who is looking for something to hang onto.

“He has lost face with Abians after inflicting pains on them during his inglorious eight years rule.

“In his characteristic manner, Kalu blamed his self-inflicted travails on the high flying Governor of the state, Chief T.A. Orji (Ochendo).
“While it is not our intention to dignify the misguided comments of a drowning man, nonetheless, it is pertinent to address some of the issues he raised in order to put the records straight.
“It was a common knowledge that Abia State under Kalu’s visionless leadership was converted into a family business as he outsourced Abia State government machinery to his mother.

The statement added: “If Kalu meant what he told the world that he only spent security votes during his eight-year tenure, then he should ask his mother to furnish him and indeed the people with what she did with the Abia State funds from 1999 to 2007, which she had unlimited access to.

“Kalu’s mother, who practically ran all the local governments in the state, apart from dipping her hands into the councils’ funds, infiltrated the civil service and introduced nepotism and clannishness as state craft”.

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