2015 ELECTION: ORJI UZOR KALU, DECRIED ATTEMPT TO DESTABILIZE THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY

Orji Kalu

Former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, yesterday decried what he called heightened attempts to destabilize the Southern half of the country all in the bid to snatch the Presidency in 2015.

In a statement signed by Emeka Obasi, Special Adviser on Media to Dr. Orji Kalu, he said: “Recent events tend to suggest that someone is trying to set Yoruba against Igbo.

“They do not want the much expected handshake across the Niger. But we will scatter such permutations.”

The ex-governor explained further: “You could see the signs. The moment Asiwaju Bola Tinubu travelled out of the country for medicals, some Nigerians from the South-East and South-South were deported to Onitsha.

While Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola was performing his late father’s burial rites, some government officials went to embarrass the bereaved by sealing my property in Ikoyi. I guess there are Fifth columnists at work.”

Kalu said the Igbo and Yoruba had come a long way, insisting that it would take more than the politics of 2015 to divide them.

“You cannot ignore the attachment. The first indigenous Governor-General, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe had as Aide-de-Camp in 1963, a young Yoruba naval officer, Michael Adelanwa. The first Igbo governor, Sir Akanu Ibiam, did not only marry from the West, he once had an ADC named Benjamin Adekunle from Ogbomosho.”

“You can also count on the Yoruba. Col.Adekunle Fajuyi chose to die with Ironsi in 1966, stripped and tied to a palm tree at Olodo on the Ibadan-Iwo Road.

The man, who trained Biafran officers during the civil war, was Major Ganiyu Adeleke. There is Segun Martins who chose Rangers above Shooting Stars and moved to Enugu as Camp Commandant,” he said.

To prove that the famous handshake would work, Kalu made more revelations. “With notable men like Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Igwe Chukwuemeka Ike and Igwe Alex Nwokedi, all married fromYoruba land, you cannot talk about hate.

“It is impossible for Senator Isiaka Adeleke not to eat in his Abia maternal home or the comedian, Adebayo Ajibola (Holy Malam) to deport his wife, Ijeoma (Holy Mata).We can also learn from ex-naval officer, Dr. Akin Olowookere, there is neither Yoruba nor Igbo in his home. It is one love.”  - The SUN