Elder statesman and former Federal Information Commissioner,
Chief Edwin Clark, has taken a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu,
to the cleaners, describing him as a “traitor”.
While accusing him of betraying the Igbo cause, the
nonagenarian said that although Kalu was one of the oldest vocal frontline
politicians in the South-East, he doubted his sincerity and transparency.
Clark, therefore, called on southeast leaders to “sanction
any of their sons or daughters trying to betray them, otherwise, your case will
be jeopardized from your home.”
He said it was surprising that Kalu did not only drop his
ambition to contest the 2023 presidential election but also declared his
support for the presidential ambition of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan,
from Yobe State in North East “on puerile and misinformed reasons that only
South-East and North-East has not produced civilian Head of State in Nigeria.”
Clark bared his mind in a statement titled: “Senator Orji
Uzor Kalu is the betrayer of his ethnicity.”
He statement read, “Recently, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu,
publicly announced to Nigerians that he will drop his Presidential ambition if
the Presidential seat was not zone to the South East. He even went to the
extent of floating an organization known as Njiko Igbo Movement, whose purpose
is to help secure the Presidential seat for a Nigerian citizen of Igbo
extraction, Because an Igbo has only held the position of a Head of State for 6
months since Nigeria’s Independence.
“The Movement has branches and support groups throughout the
Diaspora. Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, launched the organization together with
former Nigerian Senator, Emmanuel Onwe, a human rights advocate and lawyer,
earlier based in the United Kingdom.
“Unexpectedly, the same Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, did not only
drop his ambition to contest the Presidential election but also declared his
support for the Presidential ambition Distinguished Senator, Ahmad Lawan, from
Yobe State in North East on puerile and misinformed reasons that only
South-East and North-East have not produced civilian Head of State in Nigeria.
“To quote him from the Sun Newspapers of Tuesday, May 10, 2022,
he said; “In the absence of a South Easterner being President of Nigeria in
2023, I have my full support for a North Easterner. This is because it would be
the closest to the equity, fairness, and Justice everyone is talking about. It
further means that the justice is on its way to the South East”.
“This most dishonest
and shameless statement from a Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shows
clearly that this is another Igbo man, who is out to betray his people simply
for selfish reasons. Both the APC and the PDP have not officially decided
against zoning the Presidency to Southern Nigeria. Why is Senator Kalu jumping
the gun, if he has no ulterior motive.
“There are many Igbos from the South East, who are in the
Presidential race, particularly, in his political party, APC, that is available
and willing to receive the support of their brother, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu,
but he is insincere and dishonest. Why is he supporting the North-Eastern
Presidential aspirant against his fellow Igbo men from the South-East?
“It is a blatant lie and fraudulent for Senator Kalu to say
that the North-East is the nearest to the South-East for States that have not
produced the Head of State or the President of Nigeria. As a Senator, I
expected him to know that Alhaji Tafawa Balewa, who was the Prime Minister of
Nigeria between 1957 and 1966, was from Bauchi State in North East.
“In Parliamentary Government, which Nigeria was practicing
until 1966, the Prime Minister was the Chief Executive of the Government and
was equivalent to the post of Head of State or President from 1979. It is
therefore not true that the North East of Nigeria has not presented or provided
a Head of State or President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“I call on the southeast leaders to sanction any of their
sons or daughters trying to betray them, otherwise, your case will be
jeopardized from your home.”
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