Kalu’s war trumpet
THE Abia state governor Orji Uzo Kalu is gradually reducing himself to a rebel as far as the sour relationship between him and President Olusegun Obasanjo is concerned.
Kalu who was elected on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to serve as the democratically elected governor of his state was said to be one of the most pampered boys of Obj when the going was good.
Today, Orji Uzo Kalu after studying the political atmosphere in the country and the way and manner Obj gradually changing to a tyrant felt the only way out is for him to dump PDP for the (PPA).
As far as the current political scenario is concern whoever denounces membership of the PDP has directly invited the wrath of the presidency and Kalu’s case cannot be treated in isolation.
It is on record that among all the existing state governors that indicated interest in the presidency at least from the fold of the PDP were made to suffer one form of humiliation or another. The presidential hopefuls were either being punished directly by Obj or through the EFCC a body assigned to masterfully frustrate whoever is defiant to Obj’s misrule.
Kalu happens to be among the governors that showed interest in ruling the affairs of the nation after their tenure. However, he was first declared a hostile member of the party before he was subjected to falls scrutiny by the EFCC.
When the EFCC through Nuhu Ribadu failed to lay their delicate hands on the shoulders of Kalu, the federal government decided to direct the security personnel to harass as well as intimidate the governor and his mother.
When the security personnel failed to achieve such a mission through the stiff opposition of the security attached to both Kalu and his mother the entire game plan became a hoax.
Since that episode, Kalu retorted in spiting fire and brimstone and dares the federal government severally that “No one has the power to impeach him as did other governors.
He said if Obasanjo risk trying him (Kalu) for size then that will amount to a “civil war” because his people will vehemently oppose to such moves. He said “There is no way the PDP or Obj can declare my seat vacant in the first place. Secondly I’m not afraid because what I have done is not an impeachable offence; I have only changed political party because PDP refused to give me the ticket to run. “No force on earth can remove me. Instead of them to remove me, there will be civil war and we will fight it out”.
He also bursted that PDP’s attempt to use unconstitutional means to remove him from office would be met with force adding that the state House of Assembly members the party proposed to use against him are fully on his side.
“I’m not only in charge in Abia state Church leaders, Imams, the market people in Abia state will rise to defend their government in the state. Obviously by this statement one can simply deduced from Kalu’s position and rate him as a very brave politician of our time.
Kalu will forever be remembered because he recently came out on the media to condemned the entire governors in the country for being cowards in their approach to issues as well as allowing Obj to parade himself as the maker and destroyer of men.
Kalu drew the attention of the world to the fact that Obj is a human being like any other mortal being who must not be given or accorded unnecessary respect.
To Kalu, his life and property all belongs to God and Obj has no power to tamper with the two natural gifts. Since the president is surrounded with human weaknesses and fallacies he too should battle with what has circumvent his hands and shoulders not bordering about the fate of others.
However, it is my opinion that what Kalu did kept prophesizing as far as submission to the will of God coincidently coincided with the Islamic doctrine of faith minding not Kalu’s religious background.
Kalu has done what others fail to do even among his Muslim colleagues yet his recent statement “calling for a civil war stands condemnable.
I strongly believe that if Kalu knew the kind of traumatic experience(s) Nigerians especially the Igbos went through during the 1967 civil war he wouldn’t have made that unpopular comment. Kalu had succeeded in exposing what is hidden at the back of his mind if he were to be elected Nigeria’s president.
It will sound as a statement of fact if one is to generalize that. No Nigeria no matter his geographical position will want the reoccurrence of a civil war at this material point in time.
Therefore, even if Kalu made the statement deliberately in order to hurt Obj he has equally succeeded in destroying himself in the eyes of well meaning Nigerians. We are all living witnesses to the position of the PDP as far as the frustration strategy is concerned, but despite that Kalu will not get our votes to actualize his dream of a fragmented Nigeria.
Nigeria as enshrined in the legal document of the land must remain as one single indivisible entity and should be above all forms of primordial sentiments.
The justification of Kalu’s position must centrally revolves around his fight to uphold his constitutional right of contesting for the presidency no more no less.
Finally, I would like to call on the Executive Governor of Abia state to desist from making such an unguarded comments, in future given his position as a rising political star in his enclave. Once again enough is enough for a while.