I guess the Igbos are now trembling because they are yet to knowtheir fate with the incoming government of Buhari.....Former Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has revealed
that Igbos did not vote for PDP in the manner that was
portrayed in the last general election in the South-East,
maintaining that the PDP massively rigged the election in the
region.
Kalu, who was an ardent supporter of President Goodluck
Jonathan before the elections, said this during a programme
on Channels TV titled, “View from the Top,” on Monday.
He said out of the five states in the South-East, PDP only
won elections in Ebonyi and Enugu states.
He said it would, therefore, be unfair to accuse the Igbos of
voting en masse for the PDP.
Kalu said the people of Abia State voted against the PDP
because of their feelings towards Governor Theodore Orji and
the overbearing nature of the President’s wife, Patience
Jonathan.
The former governor, who lost the Abia-North senatorial
election on the platform of the PPA, maintained that he did
not lose but that the PDP rigged the election.
He said, “The issue is that what happened in my constituency
was a rigged election. Apart from Enugu and Ebonyi states,
where the PDP had very good outings, every other state they
won in the South-East was rigged.
“So, the Igbo did not make any mistakes, I feel bad when I
see people blaming the Igbo. In the presidential election, the
result brought out from Abia where I was, did not reflect the
voting pattern of the people.
“In Aba, I can tell you and I will tell Jonathan, that he did not
win election in Aba. The APC won the election there but when
I saw the result, it was a different thing because the people
were angry because of the attitude of T. A Orji and the
occasional interference of the wife of the President. People
were angry.”
Kalu said the PDP lost the general election because of its
greed and superiority complex.
He said he and a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, had planned to form a merger around 2007 but
his political associates in the South-East thwarted the plans.
He said he was not surprised that Tinubu went on to form
Nigeria’s biggest opposition party which finally defeated the
PDP.
He said, “The PDP was bound to lose the elections because
many people were very greedy. There was impunity; people in
the party felt they were mini gods. And when you feel that
God Almighty is no longer God and that you are the new God,
you are bound to fail and that was what happened.
“The PDP felt that they could afford anything money could
buy. My brothers, the Igbo didn’t understand the local
politics. What you see in the country today was planned by
Bola Tinubu and me.
“He is alive, you can ask him. He planned to go with the
Action Congress and I planned to go with the PPA. We said at
the same time, we could come back to the stage but the two
governors we had from the South-East were not as forthright
as Governor Babatunde Fashola. Fashola was the only AC
governor at the time.”