My 10-Year Quarell With Kalu Officially Over – Orji

By GWG Staff

Senator Theodore Orji has opened up on his relationship with his erstwhile boss, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, affirming that he has put behind him the 10-year acrimony that separated them between 2010 and recently.

Speaking in an interview, the former governor of Abia State now representing Abia Central in the Senate also affirmed his political  dexterity in winning his 2007 governorship election, a record he said that not even President Olusegun Obasanjo was able to achieve.

Orji governed Abia State between 2007 and 2015 following eight years as chief of staff to Governor Orji Uzor Kalu.

However, in 2010 following supplications from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and the then minister of Labour and Productivity, Nwadiala Emeka Wogu, he defected to the PDP following issues he had with Kalu, supposedly his political patron.

The two subsequently engaged in a political feud that was played out in the media with Kalu’s Sun Newspaper leading the offensive.

With the two men now in the Senate, Orji in the interview said that the feuds have now been forgotten. His claim follows the June 2020 visit by Senator Orji and his wife to Kalu on the latter’s release from prison.

Speaking on his relationship with Kalu, Orji said:

“today we are together in the Senate and we are working very well. We have good relationship. If there is anything that happened, it has been forgotten because you know my story especially with the chief whip. 

“He dealt with me with his newspaper. You know people were reading that, but I kept my cool and today, it is out of my mind. Whatever you write is not on my skin.”

 Noting what he claimed to be his feat in winning his 2007 election from custody, he said that no one else including President Obasanjo had been able to achieve his record.

He said:
“You know I won my governorship election in detention and it wasn’t easy. That is the record I set in Nigeria and it’s not easy. I have not seen anybody doing that.

“I was in detention throughout. All the elections, all the campaigns and I won overwhelmingly.  It’s not every person that can achieve that. If you think you can achieve that, put yourself in that place.

“That time, people were ready to die for me. They said, unless I die in prison, they will vote for me and they voted massively for me and I didn’t die and came out as governor and, to me, it was an achievement.

“Even former President [Olusegun] Obasanjo didn’t win in prison. He had come out before he won his election. I don’t know who has done that in Nigeria. They put me behind bars for no just cause,” he said.

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