I Gave PDP N500m and Supported Obasanjo's Presidential Election with N100m - Orji Kalu

Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu who early this year defected to the All Progressives Party from the PDP has revealed that he was hunted by his former party.

Former Abia state Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu

 

A former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu who has now defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, has lamented how his former party, the People’s Democratic Party treated him badly even after all his huge investment in the party.

 

Punch reports that Kalu said he gave the party its first N500m and supported the election of former President Olusegun Obasanjo with N100m, adding that if the PDP were a company, he owned 90 per cent of its share.

 

Kalu made the revelation on Monday while speaking in Washington DC, United States of America, during a dinner. He also made further revelations including his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, fight against corruption in Nigeria, the economy, lauded judges in the US for their courage, urging Nigerian judges to emulate them.

 

He added that the PDP hunted him for his ambition to run for the office of the president in 2007 and for opposing the third term agenda of Obasanjo.

 

He said, “All of you know that if the PDP were a company, I ought to own 90 per cent of it because in 1998, I gave the party its first N500m. By then, I wasn’t in government. I also gave the presidential candidate, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, over N100m in 1998.

“How many Nigerians would have done that? Yet the same government, the same PDP, took my bank, took my airline, took my oil licence to put me out of business entirely because I proposed that I must run for president in 2007; I also opposed the 3rd term, which they are denying today.”