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The Igbos Will Vote Massively For Buhari In 2019 – Orji Uzor Kalu
Nov 3rd, 2017 – The Igbos Will Vote Massively For Buhari In 2019 – Orji Uzor Kalu
Ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu has declared that the South East will vote massively for Buhari in 2019.
In a special interview on Arise TV in Abuja on Thursday, Kalu said he joined the ruling party because he loves Buhari’s personality. He further state that it would be unwise for any Igbo not to challenge Buhari in 2019.
Kalu noted that 2023 would be the best year for the Igbo to contest for Presidential election.
“I don’t think it is the right thing to do. I believe in equity and justice. We should allow the North to have its eight years.”
Kalu also explained why he joined the APC.
“I will add a lot of value to the APC in the South East. Buhari’s illness slowed him down, no doubt, but he has done well so far. I have been in the opposition for 10 years now. I joined Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) in 2006.
“But, I joined APC because of Buhari. I joined because of his integrity, so as to help grow the party in the South East. APC has come to stay in the South East. Buhari contesting in 2019 is not only for himself but also, for the South East. After Buhari’s eight years, nobody in Nigeria can tell us that our region cannot produce the president. Majority of the Igbo people will massively support Buhari in 2019. They did not support him in 2015. But, in 2019, they will massively vote for him. I am passing a vote of confidence in him because he has integrity.
“I am not the only one passing a vote of confidence in Buhari, the APC governors just endorsed him for a second term, the World Bank is supporting what he is doing, so also is the Eurpoean Union, including other powerful world leaders.”
Asked if he was sure Buhari would run in 2019, Kalu again answered:
“Recall what I said when he travelled to London for medical care, when some people said he would not return. I said he would not only return but will return healthier and stronger and that he is going to run in 2019. So, I am convinced and I am sure that Mr. President will run. I have not seen any other candidate than Buhari. I am not thinking of any other candidate. I joined the APC because of Buhari. I know him personally. The country needs him to complete his tenure.”
The business mogul also said as a region, the South East would be more interested in infrastructural development than the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), where the holder of such office may not even be able to influence anything in the region.
“We just left the office. We had one during Jonathan, for six years. So, we can’t dictate to the president who he should appoint as his personal aides. But, even at that, we don’t need to have SGF to get what is due to us as a region. After all, up till last year, Port-Harcourt Expressway was impassable; today, major construction is going on there.
“Enugu-Onitsha Road, which was abandoned before Buhari came in, work is going on there now. For me, those things are important than a ministerial appointment or the office of the SGF. SGF is nothing. If Buhari can do our roads to jumpstart economic activities in our region, I will be very satisfied with that than having SGF who does not have power to do anything. This is why I believe that getting Buhari to do our roads is very important, rather than giving someone a ministerial appointment or SGF, which serves the personal interest of the appointee. We are traders, we are business people. All we need are access roads.
“We held the position for six years; I don’t see anything special in it. Our people are more interested in getting the roads fixed than holding appointments. Who told you that if an Igbo man is appointed SGF, he will exert much influence to get those roads fixed? The APC has not zoned the position to the South East. It is not true.”
Kehinde Martins Oluyemi
November 3, 2017 at 3:31 AM
Keep fooling him.Igbo will vote him out. Am not Ibo but I know what they are saying
az
November 4, 2017 at 10:47 AM
you are right
Mon
November 3, 2017 at 5:38 AM
You must be doing your own job, stupid is when one once hold power and cannot point out any visible achievement,then when not in position,he/she start directing another person on what to do…Mr. kalu, you are only Igbo by name…look at the State you governed for years,you deliberately destroyed everything by sucking the state dry out of your own greed.
There is no question that you,Okorohausa,Ikpeazu and other agents of destruction being use by hausa Fulanis may be given or allow to be president if Nigeria will continue under ONE condition..JUST TO MAKE LIFE MORE MISERABLE FOR IGBOS.
Sooner than later God in heaven will show you people, the betrayers why HE hate injustice.
DB
November 3, 2017 at 11:01 AM
The political jobbers (in Gani Fawehinmi’s) voice are on the loose again.
iron bar
November 3, 2017 at 11:17 AM
I WEEP FOR IMO BUT ORJI UZOR MADNESS IS TRYING TO SURPASS THAT OF OKOROAWUSA.THESE ARE THE SELLOUTS WE HAVE IN OUR MIDST.BOTH LIVED MOST OF THEIR LIVES IN THE NORTH.THIS CROOK SWITCHED TO APC AT THE TIME EFCC BEAMED THE SEARCHLIGHT ON HIM JUST LIKE OBANIKORO.EVEN SENATOR ORJI WHO TOOK FROM HIM JUMPED FROM HIS SO CALLED PPA PARTY TO PDP.THESE MEN ARE SHEEP IN WOLVES CLOTHING.THEY BETRAY THEIR KINSMEN TO CURRY FAVOR FROM THE NORTHERN SLUM LORDS.LOOK AT THE NATION IN DISARRAY WHERE NOTHING WORKS AND HE STILL AWARDED THE NORTH EXTRA FOUR WAYS.KARMA WILL BE PATIENTLY WAITING.
az
November 4, 2017 at 10:54 AM
hahahahaahaha.pleas am not laughing over there irresponsibility just that am still astonish the level of their saboteur
NIYI
November 3, 2017 at 12:57 PM
How can a person of a group think he,she or them are speaking for a race or a whole a Nation.
Danti
November 3, 2017 at 2:18 PM
Now that other sections are looking for more development-orientated leader, folks are saying this……
elvino
November 3, 2017 at 3:06 PM
oga ibeg talk 4 ur self
Rex
November 3, 2017 at 8:11 PM
sycophantic work only pays a lit
tle after loosing your menschship
Bench
November 3, 2017 at 8:59 PM
Nonsens. See thief wey was fly from another party to be entering APC is talk. Everything wey he is talk is make he wash Buhari head so that buhari is forgetment of wetin he is do. And buhari is even a wayo somebody weyris told us say he was belonging to everybody and is nobody also. But he have belong to only APC. If you are thief and you are APC, you are very very good persin. But if you are not thief and you are PDP, you are criminals. So how am I beliv to that type of somebody?
Chris
November 4, 2017 at 4:50 AM
Mad man. They didn’t vote for him during his first tenure when the igbos don’t even know buhari’s nepotic, tribalistic and despotic nature. How do you think they will vote for the 2nd time.
az
November 4, 2017 at 10:50 AM
orji uzor ur doctor has been looking and searching for u. for your medications pleas where are