Former Abia State governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, says the average Igbo leader pursues personal agenda at the expense of that of the generality of the Igbo ethnic group.
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Kalu shared this view when he spoke with journalists during annual youth summit of Junior Chamber International, Ikoyi, hosted by the Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation at Camp Neya, his country home in Igbere, Bende LGA, Abia State.
The former governor said that with the exception of him, each time all other Igbo leaders had the opportunity of meeting President Muhammadu Buhari, they asked the president for favour rather than laying bare the problems facing the entire people of Southeast.
Kalu said, “Some Igbo leaders go to the president with the CV of their wives and children, but I go to him to tell him the problem of the people.”
Speaking on the proscription of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, “I think a lot of hate speech had engulfed the country, and the matter escalated because the IPOB leader refused to abide by the terms of his bail. If he had agreed, and probably appealed against the conditions, the situation wouldn’t have gotten to this point. When two people are fighting and the court says, don’t fight, you obey the court. The court decision was not a personal decision of Justice Binta Nyako but the decision of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”
