I gave PDP N500m — Kalu`

Samson Folarin

A previous governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has deplored his treatment by his previous gathering, the People's Democratic Party in spite of being a noteworthy "partner."

Kalu said he gave the gathering its first N500m and bolstered the race of previous President Olusegun Obasanjo with N100m, including that if the PDP were an organization, he possessed 90 for each penny of its share.

The ex-representative talked on Monday in Washington DC, United States of America, amid a supper.

Kalu, who talked on many issues, including his trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, battle against defilement in Nigeria, the economy, praised judges in the US for their valor, encouraging Nigerian judges to copy them.

He said the PDP chased him for his aspiration to keep running for the workplace of the president in 2007 and for contradicting the third term plan of Obasanjo.

He stated, "Every one of you realize that if the PDP were an organization, I should possess 90 for each penny of it on the grounds that in 1998, I gave the gathering its first N500m. By then, I wasn't in government. I likewise gave the presidential applicant, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, over N100m in 1998.

"What number of Nigerians would have done that? However a similar government, the same PDP, took my bank, took my aircraft, took my oil permit to make me bankrupt altogether since I suggested that I should keep running for president in 2007; I likewise contradicted the third term, which they are denying today."

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