https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

Haba he still try pass Buhari well

"While he is still fixated about Tinubu's ambition"

See jabbing from the presenter.

He's a drop out

He ignored Secessionist question.Same about his N7bn fraud case

Very good in business.. "Making money is an act" I like that

The governors are not doing their responsibility regarding security..If you do not want criminals in your state, push them out- Not excerpt though

DubaiLandLord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

Orji Uzo Kalu might be an unpolished, less educated shifty sort of person, but he is far from dull

From poverty, he became a self made billionaire before the age of 30, dull people dont achieve such

gidgiddy:


Orji Uzo Kalu might be an unpolished, less educated shifty sort of person, but he is far from dull

From poverty, he became a self made billionaire before the age of 30, dull people dont achieve such

Who dey talk of money or business for here? Shey nah business matter dem dey talk for that interview?

Buhari rose through the rank, to become a Major General in the army.

But people still dey accuse him of been an olodo.

DubaiLandLord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

All these Tinubu agberos will just be talking rubbish.

I just watched the video and I can categorically say that Orji Kalu is far better than the old, senile and ex drug lord you're campaigning for.

Your hypocritical post can only deceive gullible people.

No sane Nigerian will vote for Tinubu but I will like him to contest so he can be roundly humiliated.

InvestinOwerri:


All these Tinubu agberos will just be talking rubbish.

I just watched the video and I can categorically say that Orji Kalu is far better than the old, senile and ex drug lord you're campaigning for.

Your hypocritical post can only deceive gullible people.

No sane Nigerian will vote for Tinubu but I will like him to contest so he can be roundly humiliated.

Gibberish

Your bitter opinion does not matter

Una talk pass this about GMB

Ibos are inconsequential in the scheme of things.

Know this and have peace of mind.

DubaiLandLord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

I am flabbergasted at your seemingly insinuation that Nigerian elections are hinged on intellect. It is unfortunate you are blinded to ethnic bias and failed to frown at the line of questioning from the goons. In a democratic setting, should a willing candidate seek permission from a sitting president to run for the office as suggest by one of the empty heads who crossed as interviewer?

gidgiddy:


Orji Uzo Kalu might be an unpolished, less educated shifty sort of person, but he is far from dull

From poverty, he became a self made billionaire before the age of 30, dull people dont achieve such

self made billionaire from laundering money for babangida

Sometimes I keep asking myself why this country is one? Really the Brits committed the most sacrilegious sin by creating Nigeria. The level of hate inherent among Nigerians is equal the fury of hell.

All I see is pAins .. real pains from Tinubu urchins
As their Tinubu no gree sell.. e no enter market .. Na so dem turn am to igbo hatred.. propagating hatred against igbos

Will that give Yoruba President in 2023... NO.

Nigerians already know yoruba people ... this time e choke em

All this while Yoruba have been in opposition.. Nigeria was doing fine .. a little time at center everything summersult and this human still get the shame to front a tribal druggie criminal and want Nigerians to vote for him

Very silly , stupid and careless..

Imagine people called Sophisticators with this kind brain to reason

Haba!

Yoruba

princdebola201:
self made billionaire from laundering money for babangida

YORuba man

Tell us the story again.. kiddie

So out of all military governors and personnel in power .. Na young Kalu was fit to launder money for President

This Yoruba people go just dig propaganda without source and start making noise and their clueless people wil like their post

Oga how old was Kalu during ibb Presidency and why should ibb lunndrr money through Kalu

When Abiola was running things as civilian plus other African head of states

Beside ibb is a cia officials

Please Yoruba man explain your statement before your fellow Yoruba people go believe

Na so one said Tinubu stopped ibb for contesting and got 100 likes .. for misinformation

Ignorant are Nairaland personified

They know nothing but claim they know everything

Odin13:


YORuba man

Tell us the story again.. kiddie

So out of all military governors and personnel in power .. Na young Kalu was fit to launder money for President

This Yoruba people go just dig propaganda without source and start making noise and their clueless people wil like their post

Oga how old was Kalu during ibb Presidency and why should ibb lunndrr money through Kalu

When Abiola was running things as civilian plus other African head of states

Beside ibb is a cia officials

Please Yoruba man explain your statement before your fellow Yoruba people go believe

Na so one said Tinubu stopped ibb for contesting and got 100 likes .. for misinformation

Ignorant are Nairaland personified

They know nothing but claim they know everything

Asgard is that all?

gidgiddy:


Orji Uzo Kalu might be an unpolished, less educated shifty sort of person, but he is far from dull

From poverty, he became a self made billionaire before the age of 30, dull people dont achieve such

At 26, he was the Chairman of the defunct Corporative and Commerce Bank and had recieved the national honour of OON.

He even surprised me.
He has a thick accent but you can't fault his grasp of the issues and appropriate responses to questions asked.
Buhari's problems are that:
(1)He doesn't have a grasp of issues
(2)He doesn't understand the questions asked,where he does remember them.
(3)His answers to most questions are completely off radar that you begin to ask yourself if you the viewer are the one that forgot the question he is answering.
(4)He has a very limited range of answers to questions.
If you ask him for eg,the kind of Nigeria he wants to leave after leaving office,he starts telling you of how cattle used to pass through where the present third mainland bridge is;or how Uthman Dan Fodio used to be one of the biggest farmers in 1900;or worst still,how to get office chairs supplied back in the day,a minister had to write a memo to the permanent secretary who then takes it to the typist,from there they would take a taxi to the secretariat to get it typed,come back to sign it,before it's taken to the gateman in ASO Rock,who calls the people supplying the goods to check the prices,etc etc.Totally unrelated,annoying bull crap.
Orji Uzor maynot be competent enough,but from this interview alone,the difference between him and Buhari is like that between an almajiri (Buhari)and a secondary school graduate with added computer skills(Kalu).They are wide intellect years apart.

The way Tinubu internet hoodlums go after every potential igbo presidential candidate is laughable.. They're genuinely confused. They don't know who is the main target. Do they splash primitive village saliva all over the place. They attack Anyim, Peter Obi and now Kanu. Right, keft and center. They're attacking out of hate. How can you guys win the presidency for the drug lord by abusing everybody else?

gidgiddy:


Orji Uzo Kalu might be an unpolished, less educated shifty sort of person, but he is far from dull

From poverty, he became a self made billionaire before the age of 30, dull people dont achieve such

Orji was never poor. His mom has always been rich and connected.

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DubaiLandLord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

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InvestinOwerri:


All these Tinubu agberos will just be talking rubbish.

I just watched the video and I can categorically say that Orji Kalu is far better than the old, senile and ex drug lord you're campaigning for.

Your hypocritical post can only deceive gullible people.

No sane Nigerian will vote for Tinubu but I will like him to contest so he can be roundly humiliated.

Ordinary simple questions, he couldn't answer.

He was rude to say he might walk out of the interview if they continue asking the question. Same question they still asked and he was talking about some people after him..

Are the people after him who embezzled the N7bn?

helinues:


Ordinary simple questions, he couldn't answer.

He was rude to say he might walk out of the interview if they continue asking the question. Same question they still asked and he was talking about some people after him..

Are the people after him who embezzled the N7bn?

Tinubu should grant Arise News interview. He should stop sending someone on his behalf. Meanwhile, OUK is far better than Tinubu

DubaiLandLord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

Point out where he is wrong.

DubaiLandLord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

Who elected Kalu?

This man is not dull, on the contrary, I see an incredibly crafty individual.
Op am from the North, you hardly see a dull Igbo man, that I can assure you.

Ofodirinwa:


Who elected Kalu?

Ibos in Abia state.

DubaiLandLord:
Ibos in Abia state.

ok lol

DubaiLandLord:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-wtbXQ1WVQ

With the way Ibos do wail about GMB interview, I can't believe they also elected a person as dull as Kalu not just as a Governor but also as a Senator.

That explains why he is in Buhari's APC.

A party for and of terrorists and illiterates.

gidgiddy:


Orji Uzo Kalu might be an unpolished, less educated shifty sort of person, but he is far from dull

From poverty, he became a self made billionaire before the age of 30, dull people dont achieve such

You must be Joking


Those that lived in Maiduguri know Orji Kalu's Story

Kalu was the Sidekick of a very Powerful Northerner

Who set him up both Financially and Politically

and he introduced him to Gen Abacha and Gen Babangida

Orji Kalu did not. become Wealthy selling Palm Oil and fish that story is rubbish



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7kfxFkOo7I

gidgiddy:


Orji Uzo Kalu might be an unpolished, less educated shifty sort of person, but he is far from dull

From poverty, he became a self made billionaire before the age of 30, dull people dont achieve such

He is not from a poor background
Below is the account of one of his school mates in high school, Federal Government College, Umuahia. Orji Uzo Kalu is from a privileged background.


OPINION

Orji Kalu’s First Day in Prison – How the Seeds Were Sown in Our Days at Government College Umuahia, By X UWADOKA

Orji Kalu’s First Day in Prison – How the Seeds Were Sown in Our Days at Government College Umuahia, By X UWADOKA
Orji-Kalu


Around 1976, Orji Uzor Kalu was one of the students attracted, and possibly, headhunted into Government College Umuahia (GCU) by the Principal, O.O. Otisi. The Principal had eased the mobility of footballers into the college with the aim of strengthening the legs of the school senior football team towards winning the Academicals Cup.

It turned out that Orji Kalu who came along with players like Okey Uduko, Ohaka, etc was anything but a footballer. It wasn’t long before a good number of his new school mates began to feel that he had opportunistically exploited the policy to transfer himself from a regional champion, Eziama Boys Secondary School, to the globally-branded Government College Umuahia. The students were very proud of their school and of themselves, in the light of the very high academic standards they surmounted to gain Admission. It was bad enough that O.O. had lowered the bar. It was unbearable that one of those for whom the bar was lowered did not bring along the expected value in the area of football prowess. If the school had lashed at Orji Uzor Kalu at this juncture with a reprimand for what was perceived as deception, Orji may have begun that early to realize that there could be unsavory consequences for tricks of confidence. But he got away with it.

On arriving ‘Umuahia’, as Government College Umuahia is sometimes fondly called, Orji Kalu naturally hung out with his ABU (Aba Brought Up) colleagues, particularly the Ex Eziama footballers. He would religiously escort them to Lower Field for football practice. Junior students helped to carry needed materials like football, first-aid box, etc and Orji Kalu’d guard the items by the sidelines of the field as they practiced. After a while, he began to arrogate to himself the title of Team Manager. Again, Orji Uzor Kalu got away with it.

GCU is not a very easy place for students who join in any year later than class one. Such a joiner is called a WHITE SHIRT and subjected to untold bullying (refered to in the school as molestation, harassment and punishment) by seniors, classmates and even confident juniors. Orji Kalu managed to escape the bullying by pressing his false identify as a school senior team footballer. Infact, he even became privileged, like other players. They were exempted from promptness for breakfast at the dinning hall, they were not checked for attending Morning Assembly and even attending the first two or three lessons in class. Players would stroll into class long after other students had taken a number of lessons and were preparing for break. Lunch hour promptness which was a rule in GCU was also below them. Same for dinner. Whereas students that are late to the refectory are denied food, school players had their meals specially reserved for them and even brought back to the hostel. Such were the privileges that Orji Uzor Kalu enjoyed and appropriated by supposedly being a school footballer – which he really wasn’t. At this stage, he had learnt to play the system against itself. He had begun to note that rules are for dummies and that there is neither absolute black or white, only shades of grey.

Academically, Orji Kalu wasn’t the brightest in his class. Let’s say he wasn’t bright at all. But he was bold, audacious and pretentious. What he lacked in classroom strength, he more than had in social skills. By the time football season ended, Orji had become so entrenched in the system and, like many of us, he’d learnt how to play school criminal (‘crimgwo’). The problem is that he had learnt how to benefit from the underbelly of the school without ever paying his dues. He didn’t grow in the system and couldn’t grow the system. In his mind, he remained an outsider, appropriating any benefit he could and not paying any tax to support and grow the system. I’m of the impression that Orji Kalu remains till this day a WHITE SHIRT in his heart and in his head. On the inside, his school shirt never really transmuted to pink, our unique weekday school uniform. He remains a bird of passage, a visitor. It’s doubtful, for instance if Orji Kalu can remember that the school’s acronym, GCU was sometimes said to mean Grass Cutting University. It’s doubtful if he knows the underpinnings of the School’s quasi Motto, OBC (Obey Before Complain). There’s no better evidence of this than the fact that after eight years as Governor of Abia state in which the school is located, one didn’t see him raise a finger to support the many efforts of the vibrant Old Boys Association. It isn’t that he was not reminded. He had all the reminding in the world. But he saw our Noble Alma mater as a territory he conquered on his way to the top. To him, it was a prostitute to transact with at a time of need, not a girlfriend, concubine, wife or mother which features looped intricacies. I hear that the situation is worse with Eziama Boys in the sense that he doesn’t even want people to know he ever stepped foot at Eziama Boys as a student.

Around 1999 some of our classmates said they were noticing a claim in his public profile that he had attended Barewa College. And they were wondering if it was after or before Government College Umuahia. Of course, Barewa College is reputed to have produced more than a fair share of leaders of Northern Nigeria, including, at least, 3 Presidents. So, it’s understandable that an identification with Government College Umuahia would reduce his platform for interacting with northerners whose favor he may specifically have targeted for whatever reason. It has therefore to be Barewa College. By magic, Orji Uzor Kalu became an old boy of Barewa College, Zaria.

Back to the narration about Orji at GCU. After the football season, he became friends with Ukata (I think, the son of a High Court Judge). They were often seen together. I remember one evening when many boys drooled as these two boys strolled with Miss Otulaja, a female corper, down the long stretch that runs from from the roundabout near the Principal’s quarter to the Parade Ground. For all one knows, the young female corper may just have sought a stroll; but the interpretations of that party stroll had ethereal dimensions.

Orji Kalu’s association with Ukata enjoyed an infamous bout of publicity sometime around 1978 when the Debating Society of an all-girls high school had an interaction with the GCU debating society. Such interactions usually commence with interschool debates or quizes and end in ballroom dancing, with exchanges of contacts which mark the possible commencement of amorous relationships. On this occasion, Orji and Ukata disappeared with two of the visiting girls for a large number of minutes. At Assembly the next Monday, the Principal, O.O. Otisi made a public show of them. He said they had claimed that the two girls wanted to drink water, they took them where they could give them water. “And, I suppose, you watered them” the Principal added, to the wild amusement of students and teachers. Orji and Ukata were reprimanded and punished. I don’t remember what the exact punishment was, but I remember that I was mortified by the impunity of Orji Kalu and Ukata. That they were not expelled gives an indication that Orji and his friend got away with a slap on the wrist. Once more, the young man was being taught that there are no limits, no bounds. For a school that took breaking of bounds very seriously, Orji had simply achieved the equivalent of getting away with murder. In future engagements with the society, one will see Orji Kalu riding roughshod over laws, rules, policies, persons and people. Let’s face it. The Seeds were sown at Government College Umuahia.

I don’t know how Orji Kalu’s WASC result turned out. But I will not be surprised if it was a straight F9 failure in all subjects. His classmates didn’t expect him to pass any subject. Nobody could even tell if he was inclined towards the sciences, arts or technicals (Technical Drawing, Metal Work, Wood Work). He was just present. In the academic space, Orji Kalu may as well not have existed. Nobody could bother to contemplate his future with an University in view.

Orji Kalu lacked capability in all subjects. If he wanted to be frank, he wouldn’t lay claim to even average status in any subject. Particularly, not in English Language which was a natural Credit for all Umuahians. Infact, rather than just a fail in English Language, Orji Kalu’s classmates expected him to fail woefully and “lose his deposit” (the political language and practice in 1979 when we sat WASC).

GCU had and still has an automatic English language-improvement culture embedded in
(1) good teaching,
(2) english-everywhere-at-all-times,
(3) ridicule by peers and juniors for wrong grammar, and
(4) bullying by seniors for language errors. Even students who arrived GCU with terribly poor grasp of verbs and grammatical constructs naturally self-corrected after the first year. Orji Kalu remains the only person, living or dead who, to the best of my knowledge speak better English after one year in Government. I still don’t know how someone can form big boy with mishmash tenses. Even as Governor of Abia state, decades after graduating from our super ivy league GCU, he was still mixing verbs like a comedian immitating a poor village primary school pupil. The story of how he achieved this infamy is instructive and related to his comfort with self-destructive impunity.

Orji Kalu came into Government College Umuahia with a poor academic background from Eziama Boys High School, Aba. Having positioned himself as a footballer (which it turned out that he wasn’t), he would watch over the items of Members of the University Senior Football Team as they practiced each morning. While that gave him a sense of belonging in the school team, it robbed him of hours of learning in which he could have improved his verbiage. Moreover, as a privileged “footballer,” he wasn’t subjected to the peer ridicule and correction by which many of us improved our grammar. So, untaught and uncorrected, Orji emerged a dubious ambassador of Government College Umuahia. A fruit that in no way represents the tree. Even decades after he left secondary school and became Governor of Abia State, his English continued to be an embarrassment. In playing the system, he had played himself big time. Igbos say the man who tenders the wrong foot to an orthopedic surgeon in the hope of avoiding the pain that goes with the treatment of a broken bone will surely end up with a limp. Orji Uzor Kalu’s grammar limps. And so does his fate as he spends his full day today behind the high walls of a correctional facility – not as a visitor, not as a guest, but as a resident, a prisoner. Not a prisoner of conscience. But a prisoner, prisoner. Orji Uzor Kalu, the boy who came to Government College Umuahia over four decades ago with unsubstantiated claims of football prowess has become an awardee for a crime against the state.

In sentencing Orji Uzor Kalu, the judge stated that she couldn’t agree more with the prosecution that this ex-Umuahian literally packed 7.1 billion Naira from Abia State over which he superintended and shifted it in broad daylight to his private limited liability company, Slok. As I read reports of the charges and judgement, I couldn’t help but perceive that Orji Uzor Kalu may have gotten to the stage where he approached the stealing of government funds without sense, without brain, and without care. That’s what Impunity does. That’s what getting away lightly with offenses at GCU 40 years ago has now led him into. Impunity lowers one’s sense of caution. It endues the bearer with foolishness, assuring him that he’d get away with the present act as he’s gotten away with earlier ones. A false sense of reality. A false sense of right and a warped sense of the not-so-right.

Impunity has turned out a big betrayer. Over time, it had lulled Orji Uzor Kalu into a false sense of security. And time kept watch. Time has turned out again to be on the side of the law. Any lesson here?

https://sundiatapost.com/orji-kalus-first-day-in-prison-how-the-seeds-were-sown-in-our-days-at-government-college-umuahia-by-x-uwadoka/