Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has alleged that former Federal Commissioner and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark and others betrayed the people of the South East and that as a region, they are now wiser.
In a statement Thursday, Kalu who was responding to the attack by the Elder statesman, said that he did not betray his People, rather he is doing his best to reintegrate them into mainstream politics.
Clark who noted that Orji Kalu is insincere and dishonest, and another Igbo man who is out to betray his people of the South East for selfish reason, said that the former Abia State Governor should let his ambition be made or sterner stuff for Nigeria to survive as a united country, and as equal citizenship.
The former governor said “I was shocked that even the zone the entire South-East supported in unity including myself in 2011 and 2015 respectively, has the highest number of contestants without thinking of their brothers, knowing fully well that the South East zone has remained the only zone in Southern Nigeria that has not produced the nation’s president since the rotation convention dispensation that began in 1999.”Coming to this late hour to support the South East is rather suspicious to me if they couldn’t do it two years ago.
The truth is, Chief Edwin Clark knows the South-East cannot get the ticket of any party in an open contest as it is today without a gentleman agreement to concede it to the South-East.
“If all the aspirants from the South-West and South-South cannot support their brothers from the South-East, It is only politically correct to support the North-East geo-political zone, which to me is the shortest route for the South-East geo-political zone to produce the president after their 8 years instead of waiting for another 16 years.
“It is rather surprising to me that Chief Edwin Clark didn’t call the majority of other Southerners including governors working against the South-East to order or the names he called me.
If you meant well for the South East , you could have discouraged other aspirants against running for President.
The betrayers are those who don’t care about South East .
“Let me also inform the elder statesman that majority of the Southerners in his party (PDP) are secretly supporting a Northeasterner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.”
