Former
governor of Nigeria’s eastern state of Abia, Orji Uzor Kalu claimed he
has returned to the PDP after an agreement with other founding members
of the party, urging him to return.
But Mr Emma Nwaka, the Abia PDP Chairman dismissed Kalu’s claim on
the grounds that the party executives at Orji’s ward had all resigned
their positions and could not have re-admitted Kalu.
Nwaka said that all the party’s executive members in Igbere Wards `A’
and `B’ resigned their positions on January 10, this year. He also
claimed that Chief Amaechi Ukoh, the Igbere Ward `A’ Chairman who issued
the card had resigned and submitted the party’s cards and register to
the state’s PDP Secretariat.
Speaking with newsmen at his Igbere country home, near Umuahia, Kalu
claimed he was readmitted on 16 January by his Igbere Ward A, in Bende
council of Abia state.
He said there was no going back on his decision as the PDP executive
in Igbere Ward `A’ had already issued him a membership card.
He explained that he returned to the PDP to re-jig the party and realise the dreams of its founding fathers.
“All the founding members of PDP have met and decided that we should all go
back to our party because if we continue to leave it to the animals,
they will put it into shame and Nigerians no longer have confidence in
the party,’’ Kalu said.
The Igbere Ward A chairman, Ukoh was at Kalu’s home in the company of other officials of the ward on Saturday.
Ukoh told reporters that he has not resigned as a ward official of the
PDP, noting that he was in hiding because the PDP state officials were
using military men to trail them in their homes.
Kalu condemned the actions of PDP leadership in Abia over what he described as “false propaganda on my re-admission”.
“I already have PDP card number 9787845 and there is no going back’’.
He said that such un-coordinated propaganda presented the state PDP leadership as not only irresponsible but fake.
“We want all these deceits in Abia State to stop because we are going
to fight for democracy, we are going to remove inept government and put
a credible one in the state.
“All those living by propaganda would soon stop; corruption will
stop, all the manipulation of Abia people will stop.The stealing going
in the state will stop and we will call for social justice in Abia,’’ he
said.
Responding to some questions later, Kalu said he returned to PDP
because former President Olusegun Obasanjo vacated the position of PDP
Board of Trustee chairmanship, stressing that he left the party because
of Obasanjo.
“I kept to my position that as long as Obasanjo remained the PDP BOT
chairman, I will not return to the party and now that he had left I am
back and will continue to make useful contributions for the growth of
the party,’’ he said.
Kalu said that the only problem he had with Governor Theodore Orji
was that he was not delivering quality leadership to the state.
“The members of Abia House of Assembly, commissioners and other people are all complaining that they are not getting anything.
Kalu, 53 years old in April, had left the party in 2003, floating a
new political party called the Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA.
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