The Abia Rescue Movement, a support group of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abia State has called on a former governor of the state and senator representing Abia North Senatorial Zone, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu to choose between the APC and the APP instead of eating with the APC in the day time, and sleeping with the APP at night.
The group in a statement signed by its Coordinator, Dr. Onuoha Emezie, was reacting to what it called a dubious claim in a story posted on his online platform, abntv.com.ng that “Ikechi Emenike (is) Under Fire For Saying Orji Kalu Created APP To Sponsor His Brother’s Guber Ambition”.
Though the contents of the story according to the group were credited to one Pastor Okey Umesie, “it is not difficult to unveil the man behind the mask: Orji Uzor Kalu. The artful dodger cannot evade our radar, no matter the guise he chooses to wear”.
They described that story as a crass exhibition of cowardice for Kalu to employ the antics of a guile fox to attack High Chief Ikechi Emenike the Abia State Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the same party Kalu pretends to belong.
“No matter how hard he tries to hide his facade it is certitude that Kalu has been actively promoting the Action Peoples Party. Senator Kalu’s involvement in APP is an open book which anybody can read. He is the chief recruiter and promoter of the party. His primary hunting ground is Abia APC. But the good news is that many discerning APC members are rebuffing him. Yet, Orji Kalu is not relenting in de-marketing the party and its candidates”.
“Orji Kalu must choose between the APC and the APP, he must choose today which of the two parties deserves his loyalty. There are no two ways about it. What political system will support a man to be in two political parties at the same time? Unfortunately, Kalu thinks he is smart. That is the kind of hubris he suffers from because here in this clime people like him wangle their way and get promoted to levels well beyond their intellectual and moral capacity”.
“The truth is that Orji Uzor Kalu thinks that he can conjure any antics he deems fit any time and manufacture his own facts to beguile those that don’t know him. That is his idea of being smart. But we in Abia State know him very well and we know he is not smart. He is merely suffering from prolonged childishness and congealed illiteracy. Sooner than later his antics will be laid bare for the world to see”.
“We must emphasise that there is no grain of smartness for anyone to stand on the platform of APC and be sponsoring APP. This is anti-party activity of the highest order. And Kalu knows it very well but prefers to play the ostrich”.
“If APP is so desirable to you, Senator Kalu, you should go there and run for election or re-election, as the case may be. You tried it in the defunct Progressive People’s Alliance (PPA) and crashed woefully on the two occasions (2011 and 2015) you aspired to be in the Senate. You got a lifeline in the ruling APC in 2019 and now you are abusing the privilege you got from a party that breathed fresh oxygen into your waning political life. Orji Uzor Kalu got this favour notwithstanding that he was among those that disparaged APC in the South-East and called its members all manner of unprintable names.”
“We read with muffled amusement the salacious claim by Kalu that High Chief Emenike knelt for him begging him to make him governor in 2007. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is another of Orji Kalu’s trademark lies Emenike has never begged him for anything. Emenike is his senior in age and can’t kneel for him. Those who know Chief Emenike, even from afar, would testify that such incident of kneeling for Kalu could never have happened”.
“If Kalu truly understands the culture of the land where he comes from he won’t be indulging in the fantasy of claiming that his senior knelt for him. Was it under duress or what? Rather, it is Kalu that has the trademark of not just kneeling but crawling to beg just about anybody in his desperation for one political favour or the other. Orji Uzor Kalu is the major stumbling block in Abia APC reconciliation. Despite Chief Emenike’s intervention which gave him the 2023 senatorial ticket he is clutching today, it is difficult for him to show gratitude”.
“It must be pointed out that at no forum did High Chief Emenike mention the name of Mascot Kalu nor question his political aspiration. It is not in Emenike’s character to engage in name calling. He acknowledges the right of every person to pursue his political ambition without let or hindrance. Therefore, he has no issue with the governorship candidate of Abia APP. Rather, like other APC leaders, he will not tolerate Kalu to be recruiting for APP while in APC. He should be bold enough to choose either of the two political parties”.
“We need to remind Orji Uzo Kalu that the APC in Abia State as well as the national leadership of the party are tired of these distractions and destructive antics. At this period the party is making efforts to bring all its members into a united, formidable family you still preferred to be a clog in the wheel of reconciliation”.
“You should for once be sincere to yourself, be sincere to God and come clean in your actions and words. You should come down from your high horse and be a promoter of genuine peace and reconciliation in Abia APC. And be it known to you that 100 million Orji Kalus CAN NOT STOP THAT WHICH GOD HAS ORDAINED”.