Why Igbos are their own worst enemies – Orji Kalu
October 31, 2016
Igbos who have often blamed the Federal Government for the backwardness in the South East have been told that they have no one but themselves to blame for their woes.
Former Abia State Governor and businessman, Orji Uzor Kalu, said in the recent edition of The Interview that, “Igbos are their own worst enemies.”
He said a number of the elite in the region are not only selfish, but that they also get their politics wrong.
“Let me tell you,” he said in an emotion-laden voice, “there were more problems between (Asiwaju Bola) Tinubu and (Babatunde) Fashola, than there were between me and TA (Theodore Ahamefule Orji). But it is the discipline of the Yorubas that kept them at bay. Igbos have no discipline in terms of politics. They are very good traders; they’re good in anything they do, but they don’t understand politics.”
Mr. Kalu’s was referring to the fractured relationship between Mr. Tinubu and Mr. Fashola in the latter’s second term as governor of Lagos State, and comparing it to his own internecine war with his successor, Theodore A. Orji, which led to the extinction of the Progressive Peoples Alliance, the party he founded.
In the interview, described by the Managing Director/Editor-In-Chief of The Interview, Mr. Azu Ishiekwene, as “the political equivalent of the ogbunigwe (Biafran improvised explosives),” Mr. Kalu illustrated his point with a conversation he claimed to have had with President Muhammadu Buhari, who wondered aloud why previous high profile Igbo appointees had done nothing for the region.
Mr. Kalu also spoke on the agitation for a state of Biafra and the travails of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu; his relationship with former President Ibrahim Babangida and former Governor Ikedim Ohakim; the recent statement of former Governor Peter Obi; and allegations that while he governed Abia for eight years, his mother ruled.
Our Own Opinion
Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.
Buhari a very strong fulani man and so therefore highly abides by fulani islamic agender, so also is APC. Truth is that APC is out to carry out islamic agenda and they are looking for every tool they can use and one of those tools now include Mr. Orji Uzo Kalu. A man we could have respected now turning to a sad soul for APC in other to convert Igbo nation to their tone. A tool bought with a bottle of red win, how sad is that.
We encourage every Igbo person to utterly reject everything APC with strongest passion.
Let Buhari and APC know, whether they wishes the Igbo people well or ill, that the Igbo people shall pay the price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of their liberty.
We must keep an eye on those who have taken upon themselves to cause dissensions.
APC is not and will never be welcomed in Igbo land period.
To Mr Orji Uzo Kalu Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When he think that he is automatically entitled to something, that is when he start walking all over others to get it. We prefer that you reason and respect that which you've built Sir.