The campaign of former governor of Abia State and the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) candidate for the Abia North senatorial district rerun election, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu got a big boost yesterday.
Ohanaeze chieftains not only openly endorsed him, they described his Senate bid as not only an Abia North affair, but an Igbo project.
This was made known by a university don, Dr. Promise Okoro who spoke at Okoko Item in Bende Local Government when the campaign train of the eminent businessman moved there in continuation of his campaign for the March 5 Abia North rerun election.
Dr. Okoro, who is also a member of the Advisory Council of Imeobi, the highest decision making body of Ohanaeze Ndigbo told the people that the apex Igbo body has unanimously agreed that Kalu should go to the Senate in the interest of the Igbo nation.
“As you must have known, I am not a politician, but have come to deliver a message from Ohanaeze Ndigbo that they have unanimously agreed that Orji Uzor Kalu should go to the Senate.
“We came to this conclusion because Igbo need someone who will talk and people from the North and South West listen. “It is, therefore, on this premise the rerun election in Abia North senatorial district is not for the area alone, it is a project for the entire Igbo race and we will regret if we miss this opportunity.”
In the same vein, Chief Daniel Akwari (Osu Uzo), former president general, Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Southern Africa, also said he came home specifically to tell the people that Ndigbo in the Diaspora are urging the Abia North people to ensure that Kalu was voted into the Senate on March 5. National treasurer of Amaokwe Item Welfare Union said he left his business in Aba to come home and tell his people the decision taken that the former governor was their candidate for the Senate.
Chief Agu Ojukwu, son of former senator Simon Ojukwu, said he was not a politician but because of the sterling qualities he saw in the former governor, he decided to give him all the necessary support so that the area would have a senator who would represent the senatorial district well the way his father did and urged the people to vote for Kalu.
From Item, the campaign team moved to Alayi where some of the prominent people recalled how they paid N7, 000 as school fees for their children who attended Abia State University during his tenure as governor, while government paid subvention for the balance.
They promised to vote for him during the rerun election.
The campaign train left Alayi for Umunneochi Local Government where it arrived Lokpanta, Lokpauku and Lekwesi by 6.30pm. Addressing the people of the area, the former commissioner for Information and Strategy under T.A Orji, Chief Eze Chikamnayo said whatever infrastructure the place has was put in place during the administration of Kalu.
Addressing the people in all the places visited, Kalu said as a thorough son of the area, he remains committed to things that would bring development in the area.
He said it was a thing to worry that the PDP government, which succeeded him, could not after years in office build a single kilometre of road in the area. He equally said it was heart rending that the government, after his discontinued with all the programmes he initiated while in office to make the lives of rural people better. These programmes, he said, included free education, free healthcare, empowerment of farmers and free transportation for school children and promised to bring those programmes back and make them better if elected into the Senate.
Sun
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