Nairaland Forum

Bravo to our Governor. I am happy you are doing great and shame to evil men.

OUK is showing off to attract some young gay boys. Is he tired of sleeping with Jubril Aminu, IBB and Atiku? Why is OUK wife never in the picture? Nwokekoro former mayor of Portharcourt is one of OUK gay randy men.

Kalu is still the criminal and a very natural pathological lier I used to know. He lies and doesn't care if the truth is discovered. Stop listening to him people. 419 blood flows in him

Orji Uzor Kalu is busy deceiving those that want to be deceived. For me, he is the criminal I used to know. Mtcheww

The British House of Commons threatened to sue Orji Uzor Kalu over the recent purported visit to the House of Commons. Investigation reveals that Orji Uzor Kalu never visited the House of Commons for any issue and that no member of the Hallow house met him over any issue regarding Nigeria. The House have threatened to charge him over this issue and the Nigeria security agents have received the reports on OUK on this matter. The House of of Commons frowns at his systematic lies and act of impersonation. More details soon

Orji's Uzor Kalu is a criminal and devil. He will deal and dump all those journalists he is using to attack others

This is a wonderful initiative and we applaud the Governor for taking a bold step towards empowering the youths...KUDOS TO Governor Orji

Abia roof tops will no doubt be on fire with best of Nigerian Music acts in the coming days. The event is the Abia alive Youths empowerment concert, organized by the Ochendo Youth Foundation and powered by 2Flame Ent.

Top on the list of acts expected to thrill Abians are D.J Jimmy Jatt, DJ Waxxy , PSquare, M.I , J Martins , Muno and Morachi. The event is scheduled to kick off from 10am on Wednesday, 24th April 2013 at the Umuahia Township stadium and the GATE IS FREE.

The people and government of Abia state will on Wednesday, April 24 2013 play host to thousands of youths in the first ever Abia youth empowerment summit tagged A-YES.

According to a statement by the commissioner for Information and strategy, Dr. Eze Chikamnayo, the initiative will be the first time in 20 years that Abia youths will assemble in unity to celebrate security, stability and prosperity ushered in by an acknowledged icon whose transformational impact on Abia state has been widely celebrated.

The commissioner said the summit; a three-pegged event will witness a lecture, award of people empowerment tools (buses, cars, tricycles etc) and a gala night. He said the lecture tagged “1st Ochendo Youth Lecture” will be delivered by the governor of the central bank of Nigeria (CBN), mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi at 10 am on April 24 2013 at the Michael Okpara Auditorium, Umuahia.
The Information boss stated that mallam Sanusi will speak on youth empowerment as panacea to insecurity.
He further revealed that the award ceremony and gala night which will be graced by a galaxy of Nigerian artistes are scheduled for Umuahia township stadium in the afternoon and evening of April 24 2013.
The administration of Chief Theodore Orji therefore invites all Abians and Nigerians to witness A-yes, a legacy of innovativeness and tenacity of purpose.

Governor TA Orji has said the fact and those with listening eyes should listen. Israel wasn't paradise when the Jews returned to their homeland to fast track the current development in Israel. Kudos to Gov Orji

OPINION
President Jonathan and His New Men
Loyalty is a critical ingredient in advancing the cause of any organisation and ensuring its sustainance and survival. That is why every organisation demands absolute loyalty from its members. In party politics, for instance, loyalty is of utmost important for the success of political organisation.

Since 1999, loyalty and discipline have been lacking in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Over the years, we have witnessed situations where everybody appeared to be a king maker in his own kingdom and there was so much power tussle, and moles abounded in the party. This situation has inflicted a lot of damages on the party and it did not recover until recently when Dr Goodluck Jonathan emerged, through divine intervention, as the President of the country and leader of the PDP.

Since Jonathan's emergence, the party has adopted different approaches to party politics, a sharp departure from what obtained in the past. Ahead of the 2011 presidential primaries of the party, there were sustained agitations from some Northern elements that the region should be allowed to produce the late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's successor to complete his second term in office. But they were effectively countered by some influential individuals with political values across the country who rallied to the support of Dr Jonathan in his quest to contest the 2011 presidential election. They included state governors and other committed party chieftains across the country. Prominent among them were Governors Theodore Orji of Abia State, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, Ibrahim Shema of Katsina, Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and Gabriel Suswan of Benue State.

Ahead of the 2015 general elections, with oppositions already gathering storm against Jonathan's alleged second term ambition, the President once again needs the support of his trusted allies to help his administration succeed on its mandate and to lead his troubled party in providing the country the leadership it deserves.

It is expected that such allies should be men and women of character with sound track records of performance. It was these virtues which President Jonathan found in Governors Shema, Suswan, Uduaghan, Orji , Akpabio as well as Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State that made him to recently appoint them into the national caucus of the PDP. It was a strategic appointment which the appointed governors, by all standards, merited. And it is expected that they would deliver considering their track records in governance in their respective states.


The appointment has also placed new responsibility on the governors, especially Governor Orji, as he is now the ear and eye of the South East geo-political zone in the party's inner caucus. It is also a responsibility all the party members from the zone have absolute confidence he will carry out with utmost commitment and dedication. The explicit confidence of President Jonathan and members of the party from the South East zone in Governor Orji's abilities to galvanise and mobilise the party in the zone for unity of purpose ahead the 2015 general elections was as result of Orji's humility, outstanding performance in governance against all odds and unquenchable desire for peace.

It is believed that these sterling virtues, which have been part and parcel of Orji's life right from childhood, first came to the President's attention when he was the Vice President to the late Yar' Adua. Then most state governors, including those from Jonathan's zone, had no regard for his office and his person. They abandoned him and were busy hobnobbing with the cartel running the government with Yar'Adua. But Orji who never believed in politics of desperation and suppression stuck with Jonathan even without any knowledge that he (Jonathan) would later emerge the President of the country.

Not many Nigerians know that Orji is very close to President Jonathan and he has never allowed the good relationship existing between them to get into his head. But he appreciates the fact that it has gone a long way in helping to bring a lot of developments to Abia State. And this has encouraged him to carry on the onerous task of governance in the state despite provocations from certain elements who are desperately in search of political relevance. Orji has been able to avoid and survive all the political landmines laid for him by his predecessor, and thank God the state has been the better for it and has remained crisis-free. Major political stakeholders in the state which include Mr Ojo Maduekwe, Chief Onyema Ugochukwu, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, Senator Nkechi Nworgu, Senator Uche Chukwumerije, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor, Chief Emeka Nwogu, Adolphuos Wabara and others, who before now were tagged Abuja politicians and were always at loggerheads with the government of the state, are now under one umbrella of unity, courtesy of Orji's politics of 'give and take'.

This development made it possible for the party to contest the 2011 general elections in the state for the first since 1999 as a united family and emerged overwhelmingly victorious. It was the same bond that has kept the party intact in the state since then. No wonder when the former governor of the state, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, attempted to return to the party through the backdoor, all the party stakeholders in the state strongly resisted it, because he (Kalu) did not follow due process. It is obvious that Orji has nothing against Kalu and nothing to fear if Kalu wants to return or if he returns to the PDP. But Kalu knows the right thing to do to be welcomed back into the party in the state. Whether Kalu should be allowed to return to PDP or not is not Orji's sole decision, it is that of the party major stakeholders in the state and zone whom Kalu offended while he was the governor of the state.

The thinking is that Kalu should simply set his ego aside, humble himself and apologise to party members. It is believed this will pave the way for his return to the party. The argument that Kalu is a foundation member of PDP holds no water, because "I get am before no be property". Besides, Kalu should realise that he is no longer a governor and that his successor and his office deserve respect from all. Why is it that of all the ex-governors in the country today, Kalu has been the only one fighting his successor and castigating the office of the governor with impunity, even when it is clear that his successor is a peaceful and humble man who can hardly hurt a fly.

With Orji's appointment into the PDP caucus, it is in the interest of all the party stakeholders in the zone to join hands with him to return the South East zone to the mainstream politics ahead 2015. This will attract more appointments and development to the zone before and after the 2015 general elections. The South East zone cannot afford to be in opposition because it is not in the tradition of the people. In any case, such has not paid the zone in the past and the present will not be different.

Mr Asaga, a public affairs analyst, wrote from Asaba, Delta State

Governor TA oRJI PIONEERING GOVERNANCE WITH LEGACY PROJECTS

I just found out that the teachers are being paid on time but the problem with some teachers in Abia is lack of seriousness with their teaching Job. The State introduced Biometric kind of register for teachers but they are reluctant to adhere to that system. You cannot be paid if you don't meet 95% attendance and this is difficult for them to adhere to. Lets encourage our teachers to do the right thing

THIS IS VERY NICE OF THE GOVERNOR TO NOT PAY EVIL WITH EVIL.

KUDOS

You are a lier and its shameful that you people have made up your mind to give false impression to the public on Abia. God is watching all of you.

Is not about being rich but about doing it right. He made his money through the back door and we shouldn't allow money for certificate, OUK is a loser in this case

MATTERS ARISING : KALU DEGREE'S SAGA:

by Mike Ikhariale

The ignominious withdrawal last week of the bachelor’s degree certificate once gloriously conferred on former Governor Orji Kalu by the Abia State University is a development that touches the heart of the nation’s education system as well as the general nature of life which can be summarized in just one word: Corruption.

We have been so sucked up by communal delusion of grandeur with members pretending to be what they are not. Nigeria, an undeveloped country with her loads of material and ideological poverty, institutional shortcomings and governing inadequacies shamelessly passes herself off as a super-power; ignorant and uncouth individuals “package” themselves as scholars and analysts while fraudsters and 419 practitioners are presented as models of excellence equipped with the “Midas touch.”

It was immoral and conceptually incongruous for a serving governor who, under the system of public university administration, also occupies the august office of “Visitor,” to have been admitted into the same institution as “student.” It is okay that the Senate of the Abia State belatedly redeemed itself but it must still be said that the former governor, in all probability, would have been saved the embarrassment that the certificate withdrawal amounts to if he had had the opportunity of courageous counsel by those who were in charge of the administration of that campus when he approached them or he was actually approached for admission and the subsequent award of undeserved degree with all the fanfare of a Nobel Laureate.

The position of Visitor, derivable from the ancient practice of Domus in which someone of the highest integrity is appointed to supervise the implementation of the domestic statutes of closed institutions that are chartered to enact and implement their own laws. The Visitor is expected to periodically examine and resolve disputes arising between the institution and its members, namely, students and professors. But like most other ideas that we have imported into our system, the office, being the preserve for the Head of State or state governors in a similar position like that of the British Crown, the visitation process in Nigeria has become, in some cases, tools for inflicting raw injustice as well as the subversion of hitherto revered academic freedom and core values.

So concerned I was about this unhealthy development that I did a major research work on the subject in 1990, the outcome which was published in the International Comparative Law Quarterly of the British Institute of Comparative Law under the reference of Ikhariale, M. A. (1991) ‘The institution of the Visitor in English and overseas universities: problems of its use in Nigeria’, starting from page 699.

Unfortunately, it was ignored by those concerned. Orji Kalu as the Visitor to Abia State University was disqualified from obtaining a degree from the same institution. It would just be a case in which someone awards to himself a title that he was appointed to award to others with due diligence and procedure. The whole development was nothing but a huge sham that should have been resisted by the Senate of that university, ab initio.

The Kalu case is just a tip of the iceberg. There are tons of degrees, honorary or otherwise that have been awarded in this country over the years that are ludicrous and laughable in all respects. A university degree of any classification ought to be awarded only on the strength of the character and learning of the recipients. On the contrary, certified crooks, convicts and people of very low character and honour have been the majority of awardees these days.

According to the statement issued by the university, Kalu transferred his admission from the University of Maiduguri without complying with the academic regulations on admission-by-transfer which rendered the offer irregular, ab initio and, worse still, spent only two semesters before he was hurriedly graduated instead of the mandatory six semesters for such category of students. Ordinarily, abuses like these are what the office of Visitor was meant to check but it turned out, in the spirit of communal impunity, it was the Visitor who broke the rules himself!

From a practical point of view, as the executive governor of Abia State during the period, what time has he to meet and fulfil the rigorous academic requirements for graduation even if the admission processes were proper and procedurally in order? What manner of multi-tasking that would enable a state official as engaged as a governor to be attending classes, seminars and tutorials full-time in order to educate himself enough as to earn a university degree of any classification?

We have seen “students” who hold full-time jobs undergoing full-time academic programmes and many of them coming out with “first class degrees” while those who study full-time are barely passed. So many people today are full-time “graduates” of Nigerian universities while there is no evidence that they ever left their official employment for one day. Such developments certainly devalue the learning process and expose the universities to ridicule. This is only possible in Nigeria. Elsewhere, working people who desire degrees go through part-time studies and, lately, online programmes.

Several factors contributed to make the Kalu and all the associated cases possible. First, the ascendancy of impunity and anarchy over law and order in Nigeria. Two, the misguided belief that by simply describing someone as a “graduate,” such a person is necessarily educated forgetting that the hood does not make the monk. That explains the horrible spectacle these days of people in possession of dubious PhDs making the most elementary of intellectual mistakes that cannot even be associated with genuine school certificate holders.

My take is that the greater blame goes to officials of universities that have turned them into tools for dispensing undeserved favours. After all, we are all witnesses to the fact that the University of London, once voted to deny Margaret Thatcher, then a serving Prime Minster, and indeed an alumnus of the same campus, an honorary degree because her government policies were adjudged to be at variance with what the school expects and heavens did not fall.

The truth is whether or not a man has a degree does not say much about his ability. It is the Nigerian factors of falsehood and make-beliefs that have made it very attractive for everyone, educated or not, to acquire paper certificates fairly or unfairly. It is the vogue but shameful.---PUNCH

MATTERS ARISING : KALU DEGREE'S SAGA:

by Mike Ikhariale

The ignominious withdrawal last week of the bachelor’s degree certificate once gloriously conferred on former Governor Orji Kalu by the Abia State University is a development that touches the heart of the nation’s education system as well as the general nature of life which can be summarized in just one word: Corruption.

We have been so sucked up by communal delusion of grandeur with members pretending to be what they are not. Nigeria, an undeveloped country with her loads of material and ideological poverty, institutional shortcomings and governing inadequacies shamelessly passes herself off as a super-power; ignorant and uncouth individuals “package” themselves as scholars and analysts while fraudsters and 419 practitioners are presented as models of excellence equipped with the “Midas touch.”

It was immoral and conceptually incongruous for a serving governor who, under the system of public university administration, also occupies the august office of “Visitor,” to have been admitted into the same institution as “student.” It is okay that the Senate of the Abia State belatedly redeemed itself but it must still be said that the former governor, in all probability, would have been saved the embarrassment that the certificate withdrawal amounts to if he had had the opportunity of courageous counsel by those who were in charge of the administration of that campus when he approached them or he was actually approached for admission and the subsequent award of undeserved degree with all the fanfare of a Nobel Laureate.

The position of Visitor, derivable from the ancient practice of Domus in which someone of the highest integrity is appointed to supervise the implementation of the domestic statutes of closed institutions that are chartered to enact and implement their own laws. The Visitor is expected to periodically examine and resolve disputes arising between the institution and its members, namely, students and professors. But like most other ideas that we have imported into our system, the office, being the preserve for the Head of State or state governors in a similar position like that of the British Crown, the visitation process in Nigeria has become, in some cases, tools for inflicting raw injustice as well as the subversion of hitherto revered academic freedom and core values.

So concerned I was about this unhealthy development that I did a major research work on the subject in 1990, the outcome which was published in the International Comparative Law Quarterly of the British Institute of Comparative Law under the reference of Ikhariale, M. A. (1991) ‘The institution of the Visitor in English and overseas universities: problems of its use in Nigeria’, starting from page 699.

Unfortunately, it was ignored by those concerned. Orji Kalu as the Visitor to Abia State University was disqualified from obtaining a degree from the same institution. It would just be a case in which someone awards to himself a title that he was appointed to award to others with due diligence and procedure. The whole development was nothing but a huge sham that should have been resisted by the Senate of that university, ab initio.

The Kalu case is just a tip of the iceberg. There are tons of degrees, honorary or otherwise that have been awarded in this country over the years that are ludicrous and laughable in all respects. A university degree of any classification ought to be awarded only on the strength of the character and learning of the recipients. On the contrary, certified crooks, convicts and people of very low character and honour have been the majority of awardees these days.

According to the statement issued by the university, Kalu transferred his admission from the University of Maiduguri without complying with the academic regulations on admission-by-transfer which rendered the offer irregular, ab initio and, worse still, spent only two semesters before he was hurriedly graduated instead of the mandatory six semesters for such category of students. Ordinarily, abuses like these are what the office of Visitor was meant to check but it turned out, in the spirit of communal impunity, it was the Visitor who broke the rules himself!

From a practical point of view, as the executive governor of Abia State during the period, what time has he to meet and fulfil the rigorous academic requirements for graduation even if the admission processes were proper and procedurally in order? What manner of multi-tasking that would enable a state official as engaged as a governor to be attending classes, seminars and tutorials full-time in order to educate himself enough as to earn a university degree of any classification?

We have seen “students” who hold full-time jobs undergoing full-time academic programmes and many of them coming out with “first class degrees” while those who study full-time are barely passed. So many people today are full-time “graduates” of Nigerian universities while there is no evidence that they ever left their official employment for one day. Such developments certainly devalue the learning process and expose the universities to ridicule. This is only possible in Nigeria. Elsewhere, working people who desire degrees go through part-time studies and, lately, online programmes.

Several factors contributed to make the Kalu and all the associated cases possible. First, the ascendancy of impunity and anarchy over law and order in Nigeria. Two, the misguided belief that by simply describing someone as a “graduate,” such a person is necessarily educated forgetting that the hood does not make the monk. That explains the horrible spectacle these days of people in possession of dubious PhDs making the most elementary of intellectual mistakes that cannot even be associated with genuine school certificate holders.

My take is that the greater blame goes to officials of universities that have turned them into tools for dispensing undeserved favours. After all, we are all witnesses to the fact that the University of London, once voted to deny Margaret Thatcher, then a serving Prime Minster, and indeed an alumnus of the same campus, an honorary degree because her government policies were adjudged to be at variance with what the school expects and heavens did not fall.

The truth is whether or not a man has a degree does not say much about his ability. It is the Nigerian factors of falsehood and make-beliefs that have made it very attractive for everyone, educated or not, to acquire paper certificates fairly or unfairly. It is the vogue but shameful.---PUNCH

False reporting by this known blackmailer who had been bribed OUK to launder his image. We know OUK as a homosexual who engages in dangerous dealing. May God deliver OUK from his evil acts

There is an iota of truth to this. I have heard this story from sources close to Orji Uzor Kalu. One wonders why Jubril Aminu picked him up and later Babaginda. Jubril Aminu gay runs is not new to their public anyway. Nigeria has suffered from recklessness of the duo.

Members of PDP in Abia State gathered massively to protest and kick against Orji Uzor Kalu' the former governor of Abia State attempts at rejoining the Party. One Rock of Bende from OUK's Ward spoke and he reiterated his people's voice against the readdimmsion of OUK and family into PDP.

Why are people associating Abia state government with an NGO matter. It's really absurd to associate the governor with his kind of news because he never attended to this. Please get it right, it's an NGO matter

Yes I agree with the the writer and the rest of us must learn to agree. Gov T A Orji is to me the Mandela of Abia State and that's the statement of fact.

Gboliwe:
LMAO

. Orji Uzor Kalu must be held by the EFCC

Former Abia State Governor Uzor Kalu got the shock of his life over the weekend as his kinsmen from Igbere practically chased him out from the village having rejected his blood money and infested 10 bags of rice. Our source said Uzor Kalu who sneaked into the village for the cult initiation of some of SUN editors in a bid to hid his mission, decided to cover up by calling the villagers to come and receive their new year gifts. Unknown to him the youths of the village who went to the bush as part of their surveillance saw him half Unclad during the initiation. As kalu wanted to begin the distribution of rice and paltry 50k the youths started chanting ritual ist , okija man we don't want your blood money and blood rice. It took the intervention of his aides to save him. Sensing danger kalu ran away last nite kidnapping the youth leader a situation that has thrown the village into confusion.[b][/b]

Whether they like it or not...Gov TA Orji is performing well. We are happy and safe under him.

Big shame on those of you from Igbere who see evil as good. Orji Uzor Kalu is the worst thing to happen to the Igbos. ABIA State rejects him

They say Aba Aba, now the governor has building more than 16 roads in Aba since and yet Aba haters will not appreciate good. They are appreciate evil and insanity.

We know that there are many sadists in Abia State but for whatever reason, sadist must see reason to appreciate governor TA Orji. He is the main man. The only man that has embarked on developmental projects since of the creation of Abia State. There is lighting Umuahia and environs because he invested heavily on power evacuation. Even the shameless sadists are enjoying the full current and security in the state. Bravo my governor. Onukwurunjo ke kwunma. He recently flagged off the reconstruction of 16 roads in Aba and yet those roads are almost put to use by the Aba sadists. No appreciation and no commendation. God will judge the sadists separately. Bravo my governor, I appreciate your efforts.

The market is 80% completed, electricity and other facility available. The committee is to allocate shops and in the process raise money

I am happy and remain happy. It's a great idea and appreciate the government on this. Also attracting Shoprite into Umuahia has become another milestone to us. Thank you governor TA Orji