Kalu’s Adoption Of Jonathan A Fluke, Says Orji’s Aide

THE adoption of Jonathan by former Governor Orji Kalu’s Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) is a fluke and a ploy to destabilise the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) both at national and state levels, says Ben Onyechere, Special Adviser on Media to Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State.

He disclosed that Kalu, whose efforts to re-enter the PDP were rebuffed, is making another attempt albeit through the back door. This time, he is playing the ostrich game by pretending to adopt Jonathan, when, in actual sense, he is a candidate in the election.

Kalu’s tactics, he notes, is better regarded as dead on arrival because nobody would associate with him both at the national and state levels of the PDP. He cannot come at this late hour to reap where he did not sow, otherwise he should renounce his candidature in the forthcoming elections at both levels, if he wants to be taken serious.

In a statement made available to The Guardian at the weekend, Onyechere said one would have thought that Kalu ought to have understood by now that his games are up because he has exhausted his bag of tricks, since his only target is, first and foremost, how to sway and deceive the electorate using the name of the president, who has on several accessions rejected Kalu’s inordinate request to be chief of staff to the president or minister, which was the main reason why the PPA lost out in the Government of National Unity (GNU).

He said: “He pressurised the president for those appointments instead of allowing the man whom the party had initially nominated in the GNU for which reason the president became apprehensive and dropped the idea.    
“While he was begging the president for appointment, he still pretended to the party members that he was running for president. His recent gimmick is a Greek gift, an after thought that should be taken with a pinch of salt.

“Currently, the people of Abia are enjoying a cordial relationship with the presidency and do not need anybody of Kalu’s character to come and create confusion, because he cannot give what he does not have. The people of Nigeria and South East are much more politically aware now than before, and as such, Kalu does not stand any chance trying to deceive anybody any longer, having misled the Igbo who thought he was genuine.

“To him, everything is business including using human beings to bargain for selfish interest. Kalu’s latest subterranean ambush is coming on the heels of the subsisting restraining order on Governor Orji’s recognition by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) by an Abuja High Court.”