My final words. Be careful what people call you. It may as well come to pass. President Buhari had always called me Chief. It has become prophetic
Browsing: Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu
The award was conferred on them on Saturday
Kalu told newsmen at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos that the President would prefer a situation where other candidates would explore the democratic process to test their popularity.
The posters were largely seen along the ever busy Airport Road
The meeting, which was held at the Hilltop Mansion of Babangida, sources told The Eagle Online, focused solely on the second term bid of President Muhammadu Buhari
Yerima, while responding to questions from journalists on Wednesday in Kaduna, said he was surprised that the spokesman of IPOB, Emma Powerful, could “extend their traditional ways of insults to even someone like ex-Governor Orji Uzor Kalu”
The governor said his predecessors know where to draw the line
This was disclosed on Wednesday in a statement by Kalu’s Special Assistant, Peter Eze
Kalu, who is in the United States of America, was responding to a series of attacks on his person by a media aide to Ikpeazu in his responses to questions of accountability raised by a former Abia State gubernatorial aspirant, Chief Emeka Kalu
This was even as he said the recent visit to Buhari in London by the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, governors and a minister has also vindicated him.
He made the remarks at the APC national secretariat in Abuja during a press briefing to welcome Chief Mark Wabara into the party on Friday.
They met in Lagos on Sunday
Kalu described the oil tycoon as a philanthropist of inestimable status owing to his large-heart, generosity and commitment to the welfare of the people
He said his defection to the APC was made possible by the persistence of some of the party’s chieftains who had been wooing him for some times
This is coming a day after he publicly declared his resignation from the PPA
Kalu at children’s birthday
When the case was called on Monday, counsel to the 3rd defendant, Chief Solo Akuma, drew the attention of the court to the pending appeal by his client, Slok Nigeria Limited, before the Supreme Court, which has not been heard
In a statement issued by Rubby Obinna of the Orji Uzor Kalu Media Centre, Abuja, Kalu, who spoke on March 23, 2016 from the United States of America where he is on a business trip, said the killings in the Ogba area of Rivers State by suspected street cultists where un-confirmed report has it that over 200 lives have been lost within a short period of time the insurrection started among the youths in the area, to the Agatu massacre in Benue State by apparent Fulani herdsmen, to similar killings in Enugu State where a gruesome picture of a man supposedly killed by herdsmen is spiraling on the social media and many others, show that humankind in the country is headed for insanely trade of killing and kidnapping fellow human beings
Kalu acknowledged the contributions of the retired police officer to national development, having served in different capacities in the public sector
‘Besides, there are many reasons to vote for Orji this time around. One, other senatorial zones in Abia State sent their former governors or former deputy governor. We in Abia North will also send our own former governor so that it will be a strong team of former governors and former deputy governors’