confused people.OUK.

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Didn't y'all know that some of the other parties are owned by PDP, just a way to create competitors they can control

its not all always black and white. I wont be surprised if Kalu just decided to stop playing with the distraction party and move to main stage[/size]

You all should note that Orji Uzo Kalu is not a farmer but a politician. That guy is one of the smartest politician in Nigeria, the only reason he will not rule Nigeria is because he is not from the north. His political instincts tells him to switch party for his interest that's why he have done so. The rules of political parties allows one to switch between parties and it's totally acceptable especially in a corrupt country like Nigeria.

Next you will hear from him is he have decamped PDP again off course when it is the right time to do so.

You all should note that Orji Uzo Kalu is not a farmer but a politician. That guy is one of the smartest politician in Nigeria, the only reason he will not rule Nigeria is because he is not from the north. His political instincts tells him to switch party for his interest that's why he have done so. The rules of political parties allows one to switch between parties and it's totally acceptable especially in a corrupt country like Nigeria.

Next you will hear from him is he have decamped PDP again off course when it is the right time to do so.

The real truth is that Kalu is gradually declining in politics. These days he is moving to the PDP because (if I read Nigerian politics well) there would not be a free and fair presidential elections any time soon in Nigeria. He has vice presidential ambitions and he cannot survive in other parties.

His nemesis is that all politics is local, and he is beginning to lose local control of Abia state. The most likely scenario for next year is that Jonathan will allow free and fair elections at the local level where parties like APGA holds sway. Rig at the local level -attract trouble. Nobody wants trouble.

So, he would most likely rig presidential votes because no one really knows Nigeria's national population and its distribution. Nigeria's unresolved population issue is the biggest election rigging tool.

That is how next year will likely play out.

A common thief**hissing** OUK has no choice but to run to the PDP where heavy corrupt politicians are protected just as the Nwodo himself did after the National ID card scam and later got the topmost job in the PDP as its Chairman. Kalu has seen that T.A Orji his former stooge is set to coooperate with EFCC over the 29.4 Billion naira of Abia State, See More money looted by Kalu. It is sad indeed to see what our country has become when viewed from the angle of the likes of such an unintelligent touts in leadership of our dear country. I know newspaper like the Sun which Kalu built with Abia money will be busy extolling his move back to a party he once termed 'PAPA DECEIVING PIKIN' and other several names. The next thing now will be the elders of the party in the state to start hailing his move and tell him ' dear son welcome to where you can serve Abia better' Senseless generation!! Just look at what this OUK man did to a state like Abia, I weep for Nigerian democracy!

dolu2007:

Orji Kalu for 2011!!

He is only a BUTTERFLY! fools

What a shame! Shows that politics in naija is all about self interests. Rougues!

gather them together and please, o dear comrades of NAIRALAND And please come with your light and fuel lets burn all these BUNCH of GARBAGE.

Political love-vendor and a low life. Orji Kalu is a hypocrite. He deserves to live among thieves and murderers in a jail house

Nawah for naija ohhhh. . .

otondo55:

Yeye person !

Running Abia state as private business.

N700million on security vote alone

What do you expect from this fool,

No security, road in Aba, where will you even start.

Nothing works there, with hardworking, creative citizens.

God Save us from their hand !

Who are u talking about here? T A Orji is d only Gov in Nigeria that collects as much as N700m as his security vote.After he will blame OUK 4 his nonperformance.

Ashawo politicians

@seanet02, it is like you hate the Ibos. The tone of your post shows it.You used so many abusive words in your post. PPA is not Ibo party. Dr Orji Uzo Kalu did not win Abia state governorship election under PPA umbrella. He left PDP to form PPA when his relationship with the former president Olusegun Obasanjo got soured and deteriorated. In Nigeria, we have seen so many party cross-carpetting by politician, Kalu is not the only one. Of recent, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar tried a come-back to PDP from AC, but was denied registration in his ward. It is nolonger news that Mohammadu Buhari had dump ANPP and the list goes on. I think, this is our own type of democracy, afterall, democracy is all about freedom of speech, movement, association, expression etc.

seanet02:

TYPICAL IBO BIGPOWERS, THEY CAN NOT DO WITHOUT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, DO YOU EXPECT ALMIGHTY TINUBU, OLUSEGUN OSOBA, CHIEF BISI AKANDE, OLU FALAE, ADEFARATI, JIMI AGBAJE AND CO WESTERN PROGRESSIVES TO DO THIS, NEVER, THEY HAVE NEVER DONE SO, THEY HAVE BEEN LIVING ALL THEIR LIVE AS TRUE PROGRESSIVE AND HAVE NEVER BEEN PART OF THE SHAMBOLIC AND OCCULTIC POVERTY DEVELOPMENT PARTY UNLIKE THEIR IBO AND COW COUNTERPARTS. THE EAST CAN NOT COUNT THEIR PROGRESSIVES IN NUMBERS EXCEPT SOME PRINCIPLED ONES KOKORI AND CO. DESPITE IBOS INDUSTRIOUS YOUTHS, MAD DOGS LIKE KALU THE MONKEY WONT ALLOW THEM TO DEVELOP THE EAST INTO A DEVELOPED REGION. KALU IS A DEMON THAT NEED TO BE CAST OUT. OF THE MERE GEOGRAPHICAL EXPRESSION CALLED NIGERIA AT LEAST WHEN IT HAS NOT BEEN TORE TO PIECES.

After I read Tinubu in your hall of shame,I knew you were an id.iot.
How about Akala,Adebibu,Bode Thomas and the other touts.
Are Olusegun Obasanjo and Iyabo not your ?
Ode!
Who are your progressives?
The politics in the SW is marred with massive killings and assassinations down to LGA races and you are here condemning others
Who plays the dirtiest and deadliest politricks in Nigeria ?

pdp kalu

The same that criticized Ohakim for leaving PPA for PDP and Theo Orji ( Abia Gov) now turned around and did same. Most Igbo Politicians have no principles . The Dog has gone back to its vomits. O ma se o. What a shame!

Nigerians leaders does not have integrity, shame to all PDP leaders.

kalu, kalu, kalu! how many times did I call you?

This man called uzor kalu is the problem of Abia state today and his plan to run down the current Gov of Abia will not work for him.he uzor kalu may no the cause of the current security problem of Abia state, my Abia friend should give support to the current Gov for to succeed . God bless u all.

@akwarandu,
are u this uninformed? run who down u said? the gov was in detention when kalu sole handedly made him the gov and where were u and ur abia friend then? did u congratulate him?

@topic,
it is obvious, nothing is working well in nigeria. if atiku a pdp confirmed and indicted criminal, alams, a jailed criminal/ex-convict were all recieved nationaly by the pdp members, what more orji uzor kalu who is an alleged criminal?
the truth here is pdp is on a mission to make nigeria a one party system and it is either one is there or no where.
we are lost as a people and this shameless group have taken us a for a ride.

The man no dey shame.

This shows total lack of principles and tact.

This is the bane of issue based politics in Nigeria, and this is why we will continue to have issues with our democractic experiment.

Politicians move in and out of political parties based on their perceived needs and not based on issues on groud.

kai, Nigeria we hail thee!!!

there is no political party in Nigeria , what we have are just groupings to seek political power for self benefits.
and right now PDP is offering that, no wonder it was said that they will be in power for the next 50 years
soon Nigeria will be a one party state when Adams oshomole crossover to PDP

In the last three years, and before the fall of the Kalu Dynasty a fortnight ago, Abia State stood precariously on a tripod of power institutions. There was the conflicting triangle of parallel power blocs, which left even the followers of PPA and stakeholders of government highly polarized. The victim was the state. On the one hand was the Executive Governor, Theodore Orji, who silently battled with odds that were seemingly more overbearing than he had imagined. At another pole was Mrs. Eunice Uzor Kalu, the great matriarch of the Kalu Dynasty, and leader of the Reality Organization, the political organ of the PPA. At the higher pole stood the emperor, and owner of the state, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu.
In this ferocious power games, Governor Orji stood alone, like an orphan, in the battle of intrigues with the combined forces of the other two antagonizing power blocs. There was suspicion, blackmail and sabotage. Severally, he was humiliated and slighted. Incapacitated by the moral burden imposed on him by the circumstances through which he emerged in power, having been freighted from prison to power, Orji was terribly hamstrung to confront the overbearing infiltrations of the Kalu Dynasty. He had no control of even his aides because they were all imposed on him.
The Dynasty had an upper hand. Almost eighty percent of all political appointments were imposed on the Governor by the Dynasty. Out of the eighteen commissioners in the executive council, Orji brought only three – the Commissioner for Housing, Commissioner for Justice, and that of Works. The rest were cronies of the Dynasty who owed their loyalty not to the state but to the man that made them. It was the same case with the Special Assistants, and the appointments into all the Boards of the state. Orji had Special Assistants that were strange bedfellows, and the worst was with the 17 local government chairmen who were handpicked by the Dynasty and imposed on the Governor.
The Governor was obviously an outsider in government. He was given his first humiliation early in 2009, when Emeka Onuoha, former Commissioner for Environment, went on air and announced the dissolution of the EXCO, without any consultation with Orji. The Governor had it on radio like the rest of Abia people. He took the humiliation with equanimity.
Indeed, another area where the Dynasty had a suffocating grip on the state was in the control of the market unions. The caretaker committee of Ariaria Market in Aba was the exclusive preserve of the matriarch of the Dynasty. Almost all the people in the executive of the market unions in the state were from Igbere, Kalu’s home town. Their loyalty was to the Dynasty, and their returns were also to the Dynasty. In collusion with some LGA Chairmen, they approved by themselves and contracted several market stalls without recourse to the state Ministry of Commerce and Industry. These stalls they sold at exorbitant price to traders and created different illegal levies that were unaccounted for and that further depleted the Internally Generated Revenue in Aba.
The most devastating aspect of the Dynasty was in the activities of the council chairmen. Before the expiration of their two-year tenure, they left the state with a debt of N2.6 billion. For the two years ruled, ninety-five percent of them took orders from the matriarch and took instructions on financial matters from her home. They had the unbeatable profile of owing workers salaries. A case in point is the Aba North Local Government, whose chairman, Hon. Ifeanyi Ikwecheghi, the matriarch’s adopted son reportedly owed workers salaries for 12 months and directed the affairs of the local council from Dubai. The activities of the chairmen were so outrageous that the Governor had to pass a vote of no confidence on them, and decided not to appoint politicians and party cronies as transition committee chairmen. He rather appointed career civil servants (Heads of Service) of the 17 local governments to oversee the affairs of the different councils. As far as the Dynasty was concerned, this was the last straw, and Orji had crossed the Rubicon. Today, barely three months of their stay, these Heads of Service have cleared the arrears of salaries of workers.

Financial Burden of the Dynasty

Even though Kalu would boast that he never visited government house since he left office, sources at Umuahia confirmed that he forced the state to take responsibility of even his personal matters like laundry. In February 2009, he was said to have brought in a bill of N13 million as laundry expenses, and N15.4 million for maintenance of generators, and a bill of N22 million from an automobile company for maintenance of vehicles. But, the Governor quietly declined these bills. He also allegedly had over 113 staff stationed in his personal houses around the country and abroad whom he insisted must be pay-rolled by Abia treasury.


The Governor also battled with the matriarch. In December 2009, she allegedly insisted that she must be given the contract to procure bags of rice for indigent Abians for Christmas celebration. She was advised to follow due process in putting forward her quotation and samples. This would be an insult to her in that one morning she reportedly brought four trailer loads of rice to the government and blocked the entrance to the government house for the purpose of forcing the government to take delivery of the rice. The Chief Security Officer ordered that the trailers be impounded and the driver arrested because it was an affront to the authority of the Governor. Later, the Governor ordered that the consignment be returned to her. On hearing this, Kalu was infuriated and instigated the House to commence impeachment proceedings against the Governor.


The PPA


At the national level of the party, it was also a battle for control. Under the Egbiri-led chairmanship between 2008 and 2009, there were over five Igbere men occupying sensitive positions in the party. These men took orders not just from Kalu, but from the matriarch. This was when the party started disintegrating with many top figures losing faith with the party. The climax came with the fall of the dynasty.



Abia is today a free state, snatched from the jaws of the Kalu Dynasty. The destiny of the state is now in the hands of Orji. The burden is for him to vindicate himself

manosteel:

@seanet02, it is like you hate the Ibos. The tone of your post shows it.You used so many abusive words in your post. PPA is not Ibo party. Dr Orji Uzo Kalu did not win Abia state governorship election under PPA umbrella. He left PDP to form PPA when his relationship with the former president Olusegun Obasanjo got soured and deteriorated. In Nigeria, we have seen so many party cross-carpetting by politician, Kalu is not the only one. Of recent, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar tried a come-back to PDP from AC, but was denied registration in his ward. It is nolonger news that Mohammadu Buhari had dump ANPP and the list goes on. I think, this is our own type of democracy, afterall, democracy is all about freedom of speech, movement, association, expression etc.

0hsisi:

After I read Tinubu in your hall of shame,I knew you were an id.iot.
How about Akala,Adebibu,Bode Thomas and the other touts.
Are Olusegun Obasanjo and Iyabo not your ?
Ode!
Who are your progressives?
The politics in the SW is marred with massive killings and assassinations down to LGA races and you are here condemning others
Who plays the dirtiest and deadliest politricks in Nigeria ?

Leave the yeye seanet02. What Orji Uzor Kalu did is not different from what Atiku Abubakar and others have done. They are all Nigerians looking for their own pockets.

Excerpt Orji Uzor Kalu's with Taiwo Amodu of Sun Newspapers on Wednesday April 21,2010:

Taiwo:Some of your former friends and colleagues in PDP are returning and there are also talks that once they go, they would woo you back. Are you going back to PDP?
Orji Uzor Kalu: Well, the answer is no. Capital no. I still want to run for president under Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA). The answer is capital no. I am sure you are looking at me to tell you yes but the answer is capital no.

Taiwo:Is it because Obasanjo is there or what?
Orji Uzor Kalu:It is because PDP has disappointed Nigerian people. I should not be part of that disappointment. Yes, that is the reason.

Taiwo:Your friend, Atiku said so and he’s back.
Orji Uzor Kalu:Well, that is Atiku. We don’t share the same common ideology. My ideology is different from what they share.

Taiwo:But you were with him before?
Orji Uzor Kalu:No, he’s my friend up till tomorrow morning. Personal friend but politics we might not discuss. I can go to his house and eat but he can continue with his PDP ideology and all the rest of them. My ideology is different


SO YOU ALL CAN SEE THE KIND OF LEADERS NIGERIA PARADES !

^^irony of words

^^irony of words