Orji Uzor Kalu – “PDP can’t come back to power because of massive looting that took place in last administration”

Ex-Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, in a recent interview, reacted to report that Ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar left APC for PDP.Orji Uzor Kalu who was in PDP initially, before he left the party to open his own party PPA which he also left for APC, backed Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed’s claim that PDP won’t be in power again because of the massive looting that took place in their last administration.

“How can they bounce back when the treasury was looted? How can they bounce back when the international community doesn’t see anything good in them? How can they bounce back when we gave them our treasury, they opened and looted it. We would call names if they want us to call names in future. All the world powers knew what happened and this is why they tactically insisted that PDP must leave power. PDP committed what was very shameful to have been seen in a democratic process.
There is no system that is not without corruption but going to loot is an affront to the Nigerian people. They opened the treasury and looted it. President Buhari has been restrained by some world powers not to open up what happened in the NNPC. If Nigerians know what happened in NNPC, those people would not pass through this airport, people would not leave them. What they did is what ears should not even hear. How can they come back? They will definitely go into oblivion, they would never win election again in Nigeria unless they change their name.”

Orji Uzor Kalu who also disclosed how fair President Buhari is over 2019 election in APC, said President Buhari is not interested in having an automatic ticket to run as APC’s presidential candidate in the 2019 election and has disclosed that he will follow due process to get elected for the second term.

‘Buhari himself is not even looking for automatic ticket. Buhari is a man that is very fair in what he does. And his feeling is that if any candidate is willing to contest against him, he should come to the Eagle Square. And some schools of thought are saying, ‘No, if in the United States, Obama was given automatic ticket, for President Clinton was given automatic ticket, the first and second Bush were each given automatic ticket. So President Buhari is also feeling that automatic ticket for him is not right.
He said open the space for other people who also want to contest. He wants the openness of the primary to take place. The contest should be thrown open. There would be no rancour. We are in a democracy and I would vote for the president. I’ve said it times without number that President Buhari needs to consolidate on his achievements because the President is very popular. He is still the only person carrying 12 million votes on his back. His tenure has been besieged by illness. So the President genuinely deserves second tenure. We are not afraid of anybody who wants to contest against the president’ he said.