A former Governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, has said Igbo people are better traders than politicians.
Kalu said the lack of understanding of politics and the indiscipline of Igbo politicians were responsible for what he called the political backwardness of the South-East.
He said the political fortune of the Igbo would have been better had their politicians approached politics like the Yoruba.
Kalu said Igbo politicians had a lot to learn from how a former Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola, and his predecessor, Bola Tinubu, handled their differences during Fashola’s second term.
He said things would have been different if his own successor, Theodore Orji, had the same approach as Fashola.
Kalu, who said most of the Igbo elite were selfish, said the Igbo should blame themselves and not the Federal Government for their woes.
The Editor-in-Chief of The Interview magazine, Mr. Azu Ishiekwene, in a statement of Monday, quoted Kalu as saying this in a recent interview he granted the magazine.
According to Ishiekwene, Kalu told The Interview magazine that, “Let me tell you, there were more problems between (Bola) Tinubu and (Babatunde) Fashola than there were between me and Theodore Orji. But it is the discipline of the Yoruba that kept them at bay.
“The Igbo have no discipline in terms of politics. They are very good traders; they’re good in anything they do, but they don’t understand politics.”
Kalu recalled a conversation he had with President Muhammadu Buhari, where the President wondered aloud “why previous high-profile Igbo appointees had done nothing for the region.”
According to Ishiekwene, Kalu barred his mind on the agitation for the sovereign state of Biafra as well as the travail of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
He also spoke on “his relationship with former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Governor Ikedim Ohakim; the recent statement of former Governor Peter Obi; and allegations that while he governed Abia for eight years, his mother ruled,” Ishiekwene said. http://punchng.com/fashola-igbo-left-tinubu-kalu/

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He said things would have been different if his own
successor, Theodore Orji, had the same approach as
Fashola.

Dude still crying cos of this.
He is now running mad rubbing oil everywhere cos of that¿
SMH

Tinubu is a great Man,fashola is destined for a greatNess.
It's the time.

9jii:
Tinubu is a great Man,fashola is destined for a greatNess.
It's the time.

Tinubu that stole the property of the dead and the living in Lagos State, a great man?.
Fashola that dug a borehole with billions of Naira, destined for greatness?. I can't believe this.

Is it godfatherism that made Orji not to develop Aba and Abia state like Tinubu did in Lagos and for which governors after him are continuing? I don't understand that logic! If we need godfathers to bring development, I am all up for it but it's not the case here! The case here is that some criminals are good criminals while some criminals are very bad criminals! Rubbish published by punch to massage Yoruba inconsequential ego. If the likes of fashola and other Yoruba yes men can take rubbish from their god father to remain in politics at all cost am sorry we igbos are not created like that. We are proud of who we are and the way we live our lives. Forget Nigerian politics that is not the end of life and nothing is permanent in life. Check other human development indices, South East zone has the best human development record and best standard of living under recent UNDP report in all Nigerian 6 geopolitical zones. Because Hausas and Yorubas have conspired against us we should be mourning and lose confidence in ourselves is that what Kalu is suggesting. Never it will not happen. They can keep their presidency while we keep making strides in other areas in science, technology, commerce, diaspora quality human capital as we don't care. I am a proud igbo man and in the next world I will be an igbo ma

JoSaintiago:
Is it godfatherism that made Orji not to develop Aba and Abia state like Tinubu did in Lagos and for which governors after him are continuing? I don't understand that logic! If we need godfathers to bring development, I am all up for it but it's not the case here! The case here is that some criminals are good criminals while some criminals are very bad criminals! Rubbish published by punch to massage Yoruba inconsequential ego. If the likes of fashola and other Yoruba yes men can take rubbish from their god father to remain in politics at all cost am sorry we igbos are not created like that. We are proud of who we are and the way we live our lives. Forget Nigerian politics that is not the end of life and nothing is permanent in life. Check other human development indices, South East zone has the best human development record and best standard of living under recent UNDP report in all Nigerian 6 geopolitical zones. Because Hausas and Yorubas have conspired against us we should be mourning and lose confidence in ourselves is that what Kalu is suggesting. Never it will not happen. They can keep their presidency while we keep making strides in other areas in science, technology, commerce, diaspora quality human capital as we don't care. I am a proud igbo man and in the next world I will be an igbo ma

Igbo matters giving Nigerians sleepless night till eternity.

Ibeg! cone heads are used to subjected slavery, we ain't part and have never added that to our Resume.

OUK should stop crying, we don't need political megalomaniac like Tinubu in the SE. since we prosper in whatever we lay our hand on, we are ok with that

Orji Kalu himself being an Igbo is expected to know that Igbos have a way they behave. If you want an Igbo man to follow you , you have to convince him of the route you are taking him to. If not you are on your own. kalu is talking as though he wanted TA Orji to follow him sheepishly and Kalu ought to know that that wont happen with an Igbo man.