Former governor of Abia State in South East Nigeria, Orji
Uzor Kalu, has dismissed the moves by some people, led by the Abia State
governor, Theodore Orji, to block what they consider his anticipated return to
the People’s Democratic Party, the ruling party in Nigeria.
Kalu said in as much as his focus for now is not about party
politics, no one or group can stop his association with any political party or
group.
Kalu, who spoke with the Hausa Service of the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), said his focus now is the unity of the Igbo
race with the sole objective of producing the next president of Nigeria, using
the platform of the 2015 general election.
He said any political platform that provides that
opportunity would be the vehicle to be used for the realisation of the
objective.
He said that has been the reason he decided to remain
apolitical in order to ensure that no Igbo, both in Nigeria and in the
Diaspora, feels left out of the move to produce the next president of the
country.
He said the non-partisan Igbo group, Njiko Igbo, of which he
is the protem chairman, will galvanise all Igbos for the purpose.
“Since we lost Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, we have lost
a lot of statesmen, and the former vice president, Dr Alex Ekwueme, is getting
old, we need to go round and tell our people to come up. Let (other) people stop doing caricature with
the Igbos. That is our focus.
“That is where I am focusing and that is where most of the
people who genuinely like the Igbos are focusing. I am not in any political
party. I am not talking about partisan
politics and I will support any platform on which the Igbo presidential
candidate will emerge in the next election,” he said.
Culled from Thisday
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