OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF ORJI UZOR KALU
Your Excellency,
I read with a great deal of embarrassment the article
that was ghosted in the column you allegedly write in
The Sun Newspaper of Sunday 16th August 2014.
It was incredible that you would allow yourself to be
talked into exposing yourself to that embarrassment,
for any reason. I wonder what point you were trying
to make and to whom?
The article and the facts it purported to convey were
written as if you functioned as an island while serving
as the Executive Governor of Abia State. But you did
not. You worked with people, lots of people and
luckily most of those people are still alive. They are
living witnesses to what transpired in Abia State
under your rule, including your relationship with
Governor T.A Orji. Obviously of course, I am one of
such people, having served as your Special Adviser
on Research and Strategy and subsequently as the
Commissioner for Information. I have elected to
respond to the litany of falsehood contained in your
letter firstly as a witness to history, and secondly,
because I am involved. As you well know, the man
you take so much pleasure to lampoon at every turn
is my kinsman, “My Dede! It is totallFeature2y
unacceptable for you to leverage on your position as
a Newspaper Publisher to mount incessant attacks on
T.A.Orji. It is an abuse of position. As a reporter, I
also consider it a sacred duty; consistent with my
professional ethos to act as a watchdog against
purveyors of falsehood. .
The simple truth sir is that you lied in your write up.
Obviously, the write up was meant for the outside
world; the few ignorant people who don’t really know
you. It is certainly not for the millions of Abia
indigenes who had the misfortune of having you as
Governor for eight years. It is also not for any one of
us, your past commissioners and sundry other aides
who worked closely with you and saw through you.
You claim to be a master strategist and an avid
propagandist. So you believe that if you tell a lie long
enough, it will become the truth. Sorry your
Excellency, a lie is a lie, is a lie! Even you, with all
your ‘gamji’ prowess cannot change a lie to be the
truth: you didn’t make T.A.Orji . At the time you met
him, he was the Administrative Secretary of INEC. As
is your style, your lobbied him excessively. You know
yourself; whenever you want anything or anybody,
you put on your charming front. You struck a
partnership with T.A Orji which facilitated your
emergence as Governor.
Anyone who knows Orji Uzor Kalu knows that he
does nothing for free. T.A became Chief of Staff as a
reward for his assistance in your emergence as
Governor. Unlike you, I can’t claim he made you
Governor. All power comes from God. But he played
his role, a critical role which you know fully well, a
role which made him your partner. As Chief of Staff,
he served you loyally, efficiently and commitedly. He
did his best, as some of us also did to manage your
exuberant excesses. With due respect sir, you stand
truth on its head when you alleged that, “he was in
charge of almost everything in Government house-
from the management of security vote to routine
administration. I, working with one of your closest
aides then, Victor Oye.” Oga! Haba!!! Which “closest
aide?” Victor Oye? And so what happened to Chuka
Odom? We all know what Oye did (and still does for
you!) Ha, hmmm, don’t let us expose and disgrace
ourselves o! I find it interesting that you didn’t bring
Chuka Odom into the discussion. Why, if I may ask?
And your all-powerful mother, Oduko? So if T.A was
in charge of everything, what happened to the-great-
SHE-who-must-be-obeyed? Mother Excellency,
defacto 1st Lady and Associate Governor of Abia
state?
Oga, why do you behave as if everyone is suffering
from amnesia? Or do you still believe the myth that
you are a “guy man” while the rest of Abia are “Jew
guys?”
You ran Abia State as a fiefdom. The only real powers
were you, your mother and that your brother, who
you elected to the Federal House of Reps. The
records will stand whether he even opened his mouth
or raised a finger, for the entire duration of his
membership of the House. But of course, you claimed
to be the Abia equivalent of the Kennedys, the three of
you – Orji, Nnanna and Mascot. So you also made
Mascot Chief of Staff to T.A and designated him, heir-
apparent. You allege that you don’t ‘know what you
did to T.A? Are you sure? Search your conscience.
You wanted T.A. to be Governor only in name while
you and your mother continued to rule. So you
appointed your brother as the Chief of Staff, gave T.A.
only one commissionership slot which he filled with
Okey Amaechi (SAN) as Attorney General and shared
the entire 17 local Government Chairman with your
mummy.
T.A’s aides pleaded with you to allow him produce
the chairman of his LGA, but you declined. You
appointed ASP Okoro, your former orderly as his ADC,
and appointed one of your former drivers as his Chief
Driver. You also tried to appoint the Government
House cooks. When his wife, Chief Mrs Odochi Orji
refused, and insisted that she had always cooked for
her husband, you reluctantly conceded to her. You
nominated companies fronting for you to be the main
contractors of the Government and with your cousin
and kinsman as Commissioner for Finance, their
payments were always prompt. Your Excellency sir,
the truth is as you boasted to a group of us in your
house at Adeleke Adedoyin Street, Victoria Island,
Lagos, (yes the same one which I hear you have
turned into a bed and breakfast or “short time” hotel
now). “I am still the real Governor of Abia State!” You
were sir. And for a season, T.A. was willing to oblige
you. But Abia indigenes were not. They had suffered
grievously under your yoke for 8 years and refused to
continue in bondage.
Many of them were outraged by your boast that “my
family will rule Abia for 25 years!” If you can recall,
Chuka Odom and i advised you against making that
boast. But as usual, you didn’t listen. Even some of
your friends, like Dr. Steve Ihedigbo, privately chaffed
over that claim. It is true that Abia indigenes can be
tolerant, but even you know that there is a limit to
human tolerance. With due respect sir, you crossed
the line. You treated T.A. with unacceptable
disrespect and in fact levity. Chuka Odom, told me
that he once asked you in Abuja: “Sir, do you realize
that this man is a sitting Governor?” Do you recall
your answer? It was quite telling: “In Abia, there are
only two Powers, REALITY ORGANIZATION and the
ORJI UZOR KALU FAMILY!” If you permit sir, i would
call that hubris. Now, the facts have not borne you
out. There is clearly another power in Abia – Peoples
Power. No one can be bigger than his people. And as
the Igbo say, “whereas one man can cook for the
community, the community can’t cook for one man.”
You are no doubt a very successful man, a true
master strategist, if you may. You are rich, influential
and powerful. But still, you are not bigger than Abia
State. You challenged Governor Orji to use any
medium to tell you what you did wrong to him. Well,
let me also give you a different kind of challenge.
Please sir, mention two, okay, let’s be fair, mention
just one prominent Abia indigene who holds you in
any esteem! Is it Ebitu Ukiwe, Ike Nwachukwu,
Adolphus Wabara, Ndubusi Kanu, Anya O. Anya, Joe
Irukwu, Ojo Maduekwe, Enyinnaya Abanibe. Vin
Ogbulafor, Ngozi-Okonjo Iweala, Emeka Wogu,
Nkechi Nwaogu, Mark Wabara, Onyema Ugochukwu,
Hon Nnenna Ukeje, Ndubusi Kanu, Mazi Sam
Ohuabunwa and his Brother Mao, Senator Uche
Chukwumerije, Dr J. C Ogbonnaya; the list is endless.
You can see sir, T.A. is not really your problem. Your
real problem is Abia State and her people. You have
desecrated the land and so it is angry with you. As
your former strategist, my advice is that you should
propitiate the land and seek forgiveness. That is the
culture of our people.

dis man,u re a paid agent 4 ur master we all knw all these.