Former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has declared his interest in the 2011 presidency 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.

“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.”
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One aspect of this politician i hate is his inconsistencies. He should stop raising issues based on ethnic sentiments. We cannot be fooled by such anylonger. He thinks we have forgotten how he started the Igbo presidency in 2002 only for him to chicken out immediately his interest was taken care of, he should change his strategies. Besides this attitude of political prostitution he has been into for sometime now is not doing his image any good. He should forget about the presidency cos serious minded Nigerians cannot buy into such project. Anybody that votes for OUK does not wish Nigeria good.

Another joke

Whatsreally wrong with this guy?

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Did he declare for presidency in proxy?. Orki Uzor kalu is still trapped in the US pending the outcome of his dead mistress.

if i said what is wrong with ibo politicains now, ezeuche will start saying i am tribalistic, imagine someone that just declare to PDP not long ago return back to a crumbled party and want to contest, how many times have a western politicians did something like this,even Ayo Fasose can not behave like this. This is pyre stupidity

Please focus on his comments and nothing else. If he were really running for presidency, he would not be talking about Igbo,Igbo,Igbo. The man knows there are other tribes in nigeria so there is no way he would be talking about just the igbos if he was truly going for presidency. Hence, he tried to come back to PDP which means he's ok with waiting till 2015,meaning he would have waited.He doesn't really see a need for an Igbo president come 2011. What he is doing is trying to create a bloc for the north i.e. IBB. His goal is to take a good number of igbo votes by sweet talking us will the rest of the north votes for a northerner(IBB) and some othe the SE vote for IBB with the help of those useless bunches that were locked out of the Owere venue.

Orji is the Igbo version of Asari

Good one chyz. Ribadu draws the SW through AC, Oji draws d SE through grandPPA andthe rest of the southern votes fought bw GEJ and IBB while there is a major block vote in the North for IBB. The same grand northern scheme of using the South against themselves.