President George Bush Stopped Obsanjo's Presidential 3rd-term Bid - Orji Kalu

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Former Governor of Abia State and Presidential Candidate of Progressive People Alliance (PPA), in the 2007 election, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has opened up on why he fell out with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Kalu, who claimed to have sponsored Obasanjo's election in 1999, said that "Obasanjo was deceitful to him and to Nigeria as a whole."

This is even as he said the Igbo would never vote the emerging All Progressive Congress (APC) except if it fields an Igbo man as its presidential candidate.

The former Abia governor who spoke on Liberty Radio's programme, "Guest of the Week" in Kaduna, revealed that Obasanjo actually consulted some of them on his third term agenda which he (Obasanjo) denied ever contemplating.

Kalu further said that the third term agenda was actually stopped by the then president of United States of America, President George Bush.

He also stated that when the third term agenda failed, Obasanjo brought in late President Umaru Yar'Adua with the thinking that he would die during the campaign so that he (Obasanjo) could declare a state of emergency and continue to be the president.

On 2015 general elections, the former governor and founding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said there was no going back on Igbo Presidency, adding that since the Igbos have always supported people from other parts of the country, there was no reason why the Igbo should not be given a chance to lead the country too.

He said the Igbo would never vote the emerging All Progressive Congress (APC) except if their Presidential candidate is an Igbo man, adding that even if his party, the PDP fails to present an Igbo Presidential candidate, they would not get the votes of the Igbos.


Source: SUN News