Kalu

Former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State said he joined the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and he is in support of second term of President Muhammadu Buhari for the benefit of Igbo people in particular and Nigerians generally.

He added that Buhari will use his second term to rewrite injustices and also fight for oneness of Nigeria of the country

Kalu who spoke to journalists after receiving an Honorary Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Nigeria, at the weekend in Nsukka, Enugu State declared that President Muhammadu Buhari would not only contest the 2019 election but will also win “convincingly”.

According to him, the people of the South east will support the president’s second term massively, unlike the situation during the 2015 presidential election.

“The mass movement you are witnessing today will translate to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, a man whose administration and second term project I support. “I’m not God but you know I’m a supporter of anything Buhari, so it’s going to translate to vote to President Buhari , that’s what it means.

“The president will run, I have said this time without number, I was the first Nigerian in June 2nd who told you people that he will come back on June 11 and he did not come. And I was the first Nigeria on the same programme on AIT who said he will and he is going to run.

“I didn’t join APC to go and look at the rocks in Abuja, I joined APC to use it for the benefit of Igbo people and Nigeria people, so I joined for him to run and we will use his regime to rewrite injustice and also fight for oneness of Nigeria of the country.

“As you are aware, the marginalisation of Ndigbo did not start today, marginalisation has been something that has been there immediately after the civil war, so Buhari is not going take four years to correct. So we were not on board in 2015, we are going to be board in 2019 and we will address the issue.

“I want to be involved when I have given the vote, because when you give vote you can ask question, if I don’t give vote I can’t ask question. I cannot come to paradise with 0.5 per cent vote for the president, I want to give president 75 per cent vote and I will ask question; that I’m sent by our people,” he said.

On his award, the former governor said it “represents recognition by Igbo intellectuals in Eastern Nigeria.