Former governor of Abia State and
chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu,
has declared that the APC deserves re-election in 2019 because the party has
done well.
Kalu said the President Muhammadu
Buhari-led Federal Government saved Nigeria from extinction by confronting the
Boko Haram insurgency and improving the security architecture of the country.
“When Boko Haram was bombing
churches, I told people that they will extend to mosques. If not for the way
Buhari confronted Boko Haram and provided weapons for the military, Nigeria
would not be here,” he noted.
Kalu, in a statement yesterday
said the APC was in a very good state and that all disagreements within the
party were essential elements of democracy.
“Everything happening in the
ruling party is obtainable in other advanced democracies. I don’t see anything
different from what is happening in the APC and what happens in other advanced
democracies. In every democracy, there are disagreements and agreements after
all we are not born of the same father and mother”, he said.
The former governor also
dismissed the possibility of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) returning to
power in 2019, and added that Nigerians should not trust the party after it
looted public funds within 16 years it was in power.
“PDP will find it difficult to
return to power; not the party that looted public funds, it is going to be
difficult. The PDP has not shown the right reason why they should return to
power because going back to power means returning to power to open our Central
Bank and continue the looting,” he added.
Kalu specifically accused former
President Olusegun Obasanjo and his friends in the PDP of sharing $16 billion
earmarked for power projects between 1999 and 2007.
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