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Senatorial slot: Refund my N5.5m, Kalu tells PDP
A former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Kalu, has said he
is no longer running for the Senate on the platform of the
Peoples Democratic Party.
The former governor has therefore asked the party to refund
the N5.5m he paid for the nomination and expression of
interest forms, which he paid thinking that he would contest
the party’s ticket for Abia North Senatorial District.
Kalu, in a letter to the PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu
Mu’azu, dated November 24, said he was withdrawing from
the race because the Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore
Orji, has allegedly concluded plans to hand-pick PDP
aspirants in the state.
“Since I was not screened and neither did I go through any of
the stipulated processes that lead to the emergence of
candidates, I hereby also ask the party, as a measure of
honour and good faith, to refund the nomination fees I paid. I
will use the money to further empower my constituents in
many other ways,” he said in the letter.
He lamented that the governor allowed some high profile
members of the party to resign from plum positions to
contest for the PDP ticket, when he should have advised them
to keep their positions since he already had aspirants he
hand-picked to fly the PDP ticket.
He said, “Along the line, however, it became apparent that the
Abia State Governor, Chief T.A Orji wants to hand-pick all
candidates, both into executive and legislative position. He
wants to choose his own successor, fill the 24 House of
Assembly seats, the eight federal constituencies and the three
senatorial seats.
“Governor Orji knew ahead of time that he had a candidate in
mind but deliberately allowed eminent Abia citizens, like Dr.
Alex Otti, the Group Managing Director of Diamond Bank, to
resign from his lofty position, when he should have advised
him to remain there.

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