2011 Nigeria Election: Orji Kalu declares his intention for Presidency

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Former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has declared his intention to contest for the upcoming presidential race comes 2011 under the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA).


Speaking  in Abuja, on Tuesday, Kalu said he had the best credentials of all the aspirants jostling for the plum job, adding that he was running to represent the oppressed people of Nigeria and the deprived and marginalised Igbo people living in Onitsha, Aba, Enugu, Ebonyi and all parts of Nigeria  who were still feeling that the civil war had not formally ended going by their alienation in the national scheme of things.

"Nobody has thought that in 20 years since the relocation of the seat of power from Dodan Barracks, Lagos to Aso Rock Villa, Abuja, no Igbo man has lived in either the upper or the lower level. Is that justice?', he asked rhetorically.  'We are the salt of the nation. When you go to anywhere from Birnin Kebbi to Nembe; that is, from Sahara desert to Atlantic ocean, you will see canoes and the people you see living there are Igbos. We are the salt of the nation. We are the only people who go to one part of the nation and we start building our houses and make that place our home. So, why don't you make us president? I ask this question as a matter right; that it is our right today to produce the president of this country."

"We are the salt of the nation. When you go anywhere; from Birnin Kebbi to Nembe; that is, from Sahara desert to Atlantic ocean, you will see canoes and the people you see living there are Igbos. We are the salt of the nation.

"We are the only people who go to one part of the nation and we start building our houses and make that place our home. So, why don't you make us president? I ask this question as an issue of right; that it is our right today to produce the president of this country."