Kalu’s Not A Member Of PDP, Says Nat’l Vice Chairman

ORJI UZOR KALU AT PDP NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA
ORJI UZOR KALU AT PDP NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA

The Peoples Democratic Party Southeast zone, has disclosed that former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has not been re-admitted into the party.

The party’s National Vice Chairman, South East zone, Col. Austin Akobundu (rtd), said rumours that the former governor has returned to PDP were false.

Kalu was recently at the PDP national secretariat in Abuja where he boasted that the ruling party cannot lose elections with people like him in the party.

Describing the rumours of Kalu’s re-admission into the party as the figment of the peddlers’ imagination, Akobundu said the former governor was not a member of PDP.

In a statement issued in Enugu and made available to reporters, the PDP national vice chairman said: “He is neither registered in his Igbere ward nor recognized as having done so in Bende local government area, let alone being accepted at the state level of the party as a returnee.

“For the avoidance of doubt, Orji Uzor Kalu is not member of PDP. The fact that he visited some friends at the national secretariat of party in Abuja and later took photograph with some unsuspecting national officers and former political office holders as published in two national dailies does not make him a member of the PDP. The party has constitution, guidelines and laid down rules by which it conducts its affairs including how returnees should be reunited.

“Kalu, we should recall, was a governor at a time when our dear National Chairman, Alhaji Adamu Ma’azu, was holding sway in Bauchi State. That Kalu had gone to our national headquarters to felicitate with his erstwhile colleague probably in company of others does not automatically qualify him as a member of the PDP”.