Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has lauded President Muhammadu Buhari's declaration of June 12 as Democracy Day in honour of Chief MKO Abiola.

Dr. Kalu also called on President Muhammadu Buhari to address the injustices and human right abuses suffered by the people of the South East of Nigeria during the Nigerian-Biafra civil war of 1967-1970, by the declaring the sub-region a ‘special area’.

The business mogul, who spoke in an interview with aviation reporters at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, shortly after arriving Nigeria from the United States of America (USA), commended President Buhari for addressing the injustices associated with the annulment of June 12, 1993 presidential election, by posthumously acknowledging the election as free and fair, as well as declaring Chief MKO Abiola as the legitimate winner of that election.

According to him, "the recognition of the June 12 elections as legitimate and MKO Abiola as the winner has portrayed Buhari as a true democrat considering that his two predecessors (presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan) had failed to validate that election during their reigns".

Sequel to this, the former governor, however, said President Buhari should extend the same gesture to the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Prof. Humphrey Nwosu, who superintended over the June 12, 1993 elections.

He also sought Buhari’s extension of his reconciliation gesture to the people of the South East where millions of lives were lost and property destroyed during the civil war to assuage the feelings of hurt among the people of the region.

Kalu said: “President Buhari has started a good thing by honouring Chief MKO Abiola and declaring June 12 as Democracy Day. Now that he is working, he should also remember Prof. Humfrey Nwosu, the man who conducted the freest and fairest election in Nigeria. Nwosu should also be honoured.

“And I want President Buhari to go a step further and declare the South East a special area, where people in the region were given ill treatment during the war. People lost lives, they lost property, and they were given just 20 pounds.

“He has already made a good step by paying the Biafran police their entitlements. But, the region should be considered a special area by the government because, if that is added to what Buhari has done, in terms of those who lost their lives during the struggle for the actualisation of June 12 mandate, God will start forgiving Nigeria,” Kalu added.

Source: https://abacityblog.com/2018/06/biafra-declare-south-east-as-special-area-orji-kalu-tells-president-buhari.html

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He has already made a good step by paying the Biafran police their entitlements *Unqoute*

GOD BLESS MY PRESIDENT FOR this good gesture, something that no Head of state and President have ever done since the war ended.

GOD BLESS MY PRESIDENT ONCE AGAIN!

stupid Ass Licker

A fool @ 40.....

No b only special area....na promise land

Special Area??.....


You can't term a land that buried innocent women and children that was murdered and raped during a civil war as a special area....

Kalu must have been living on tramadol....He needs a brain-check!!

We don't need it never....

What we need is declaration of biafra as a nation....It should be declared as a biafran state so that we can control our own resources, levy our own wars, develop our own foreign policies, ddevelop at our own pace, improve on agriculture....and so on.

I find it incredibly absurd when other tribes whom have not witness massive genocide and injustice melted on them in magnitude tells the Igbo's to forget the pains and sufferings they encountered during the war and move on. Likely seriously?

In all honesty, the Igbo's are great people and in our resilience, we shall overcome.

Good one Kalu. Nothing short of reparations in quantum amounts of dollars is key to mitigating the injustice of the civil war and subsequent marginalization.

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[b]He has already made a good step by paying the Biafran police their entitlements *Unqoute*

GOD BLESS MY PRESIDENT FOR this good gesture, something thay no Head of state and Preseident have ever done since the war ended.

GOD BLESS MY PRESIDENT ONCE AGAIN!

liar Muham-mad

This Orj Uzo Kanu is a disappointment to the Igbo race. Who made him Igbos spokes person?
Be ready to face your criminal charges as soon as Bubu leaves office next year.

Ass licker

Mayrock:
We don't need it never....

What we need is declaration of biafra as a nation....It should be declared as a biafran state so that we can control our own resources, levy our own wars, develop our own foreign policies, ddevelop at our own pace, improve on agriculture....and so on.

No one gives that to you

Equity and justice is what the nation needs.. that would pacify all regions and not some award here and some plack there..

jomonic:
Good one Kalu. Nothing short of reparations in quantum amounts of dollars is key to mitigating the injustice of the civil war and subsequent marginalization.

You dont mean it? So this is what you igbos will do with our scarce dollars if Nigerians make the mistake of voting an igbo as President?

And you think Nigerians will ever agree to pay igbos one dime? who will pay the hausas and yorubas for their loss in the said civil war?

Igbos should just stop deceiving themselves— and pull money together to develop their region. Nigerians or Nigeria dont owe you shi shi...

Ogonimilitant:
This Orj Uzo Kanu is a disappointment to the Igbo race. Who made him Igbos spokes person?
Be ready to face your criminal charges as soon as Bubu leaves office next year.

Ass licker

The man just reduced himself to an embarassment to the Igbo nation.

Nobody respects him in Igbo land any more

Orji Kalu wants this, Mr. President must obey him and thereafter declare The Constitution that brought him to be President unconstitutional.. Orji clap for yourself.

Mutemenot:
stupid Ass Licker

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Worse than that. Ojukwu should get GCFR and Kanu GCON

nrexzy:
No b only special area....na promise land

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And New Babylon.

jomonic:
Good one Kalu. Nothing short of reparations in quantum amounts of dollars is key to mitigating the injustice of the civil war and subsequent marginalization.

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He is scavenging for food. Na im Mama de feed him.

resurgent2019:


You dont mean it? So this is what you igbos will do with our scarce dollars if Nigerians make the mistake of voting an igbo as President?

And you think Nigerians will ever agree to pay igbos one dime? who will pay the hausas and yorubas for their loss in the said civil war?

Igbos should just stop deceiving themselves— and pull money together to develop their region. Nigerians or Nigeria dont owe you shi shi...

It will definitely be paid. It need not be an Igbo president. But you must deal with something. If other presidents used to opportunity of their presidency to benefit their own people as has been he case so far how come it becomes a problem if an Igbo at Aso Rock decide to practice the same culture. I wish you long life to see Nigeria pay restitution for all the ills done against the SE.