Aformer governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said that God would judge him and his successor in office, Senator Theodore Orji, over the estranged relationship existing between the two of them.
Kalu said this while addressing members of the Executive Committee of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and his supporters at Camp Neya, in Igbere, his country home.
Kalu and Orji, who was his chief of staff, fell apart in 2009, barely two years into the latter’s first term in office, and the two former governors have since then remained irreconcilable. He alleged that the senator representing Abia Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, had been lying against him in everything he had said about the sour relationship existing between the two of them.
The former governor alleged that after Orji succeeded him in office, he used all the resources and channels available to him, including blackmail, to attempt to turn the people of the state against him.
Kalu, who recently defected from the Progressives Peoples Alliance to the ruling All Progressives Congress, said that he was grateful to God that the people of the state had begun to realise the truth about the matter.
According to the former governor, who ruled the state from 1999 to 2007, he was always ready to forgive his successor and even welcome back to his camp those who abandoned him while the campaign of calumny against him lasted.
He said one of his reasons for convening the meeting was to formerly notify his supporters of his defection, appealing to them to join him in ensuring the party attained a firm root across the state. Describing the APC as the only party in the country that had space and the will to accommodate the political aspirations and yearnings of the Igbo people, he enjoined them to join the party en masse.
Kalu also used the forum to express appreciation to his supporters, who had remained in his fold and believed in him, despite the challenges confronting them.
