– Orji Uzor Kalu commiserated with the family of the late Abdulkadir Kure
– The former Abia governor noted that they frustrated Obasanjo’s third term plan
– He called on Nigerians to be united
Orji Uzor Kalu has revealed that he alongside Senator Bola Tinubu and late Engineer Abdulkadir Kure fought former president Olusegun Obasanjo when he was campaigning for his third term bid.
Orji Kalu recounts how Obasanjo’s 3rd term bid was frustrated
Daily Post reports that the former Abia governor made this revelation in Minna shortly after he paid a condolence visit to the family of the late Engineer Kure who was the former governor of Niger.
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Kalu said the trio frustrated Obasanjo’s bid but that its came with dire consequences.
He said: “Without that fight against third term, there wouldn’t have been President Goodluck Jonathan, there wouldn’t have been President Muhammadu Buhari today.
“Kure was our arrow head in killing third term and he will be remembered for that role that we all played”.
“I paid dearly
“We were prevented from holding our meeting in every place we went; at a point they even sealed off the Niger state governor’s lodge before we took it to Abia state governor’s lodge in Abuja.”
He noted that no country can engage in two civil wars and survive and said Nigerians cannot exist without each other.
He also spoke about eh Boko Hara attacks and the killing in Southern Kaduna and said it was a dangerous precedence.
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He said: “Politicians should manage rumours very well and stop dishing out rumours in social media to impress anybody.
“We are Nigerians and we will continue to be Nigerians and Nigeria is our home. We have no other country to go.”
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