A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has blasted the crisis-ridden Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and former president Olusegun Obasanjo for ingratitude and the shabby treatment meted out to him despite giving the party its first N500m and supported the election of former President Olusegun Obasanjo with N100m.
Kalu stated this on Monday in Washington DC during a dinner as he spoke on a variety of issues, including his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He lamented how Obasanjo led PDP did all to put him out of business only because of his ambition to run for president in 2007 and for opposing Obasanjo’s third term agenda.
He boasted that if the PDP were a company, he would own 90 per cent of its share.
Kalu 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.”
The former governor recently dumped the PDP for the ruling party, APC.
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