2019: Sorry ‘looters’, no vacancy in Aso Rock— Kalu

Former Abia State governor, Orji Kalu, says there is no vacancy in Aso Rock ahead of the 2019 presidential election.

Kalu insisted that he would only back President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election.

“Although Alhaji Sule Lamido happens to be my long time political friend and an aspirant for Nigeria’s president‎ in the PDP, I told him I won’t vote for him against President Muhammadu Buhari,” he said.

Kalu stated this on Saturday while on a state visit to Jigawa. He told Governor Muhammed Abubakar that he was touring the country to sensitise Nigerians on the need to allow Buhari remain president, come 2019.

He also criticised former President Olusegun Obasanjo over‎ the letter he wrote to Buhari advising him not to seek reelection again and said the former president lacked the moral right to decide who becomes what in Nigeria.

“People seem to have forgotten when former President Obasanjo was literally absent for about three years traveling all over the world‎ when he was president and then nobody told him not seek re-election,” he stated.

“He does‎ not have the moral right to decide for Nigerians who becomes president. When he was president no one wrote letters advising him against seeking for reelection.”

Kalu said Nigerians have the moral obligation to choose their leaders through the democratic process, advising them to go ahead and vote for Buhari as president while also voting for Muhammed Badaru as Jigawa State governor.

He said voting for other people other than Buhari would be giving an opening for the continued looting of the country’s treasury.

Badaru, who expressed his excitement over the visit by the former Abia governor,‎ said his choice to project the reason for the re-election of President Buhari was unprecedented.

He said although President Buhari has constantly won elections in Jigawa, there is further need to re-educate and re-energise people to see reasons why they should give ‎Buhari another chance to run for president of the country,” he said.

Proceeding to Kano to pay a courtesy call on Abdullahi Ganduje, Governor of Kano State, he said the president “is going for eight years”, adding that only looters were opposed to the reelection bid of President Buhari.

He said the looters do not want the government to save money for poor people.

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The former governor also applauded Buhari’s anti-corruption fight and economic recovery.

“Those who are opposed to the second term bid of PMB want to loot the treasury of Nigeria, and I bet you it will never happen again,” he said.

“They (looters) don’t want us to save money for poor people, and we can’t be celebrating sallah everyday. They have ‘chop’ enough, and they should allow the masses to chop the remaining one, and this is why we will continue to ask you don’t leave PMB.

“Buhari is our president; he is going for 8 years, and therefore called on stakeholders to support the second term project in the overall interest of the downtrodden.”

Kalu also presented two plaques to Ganduje for supporting the president’s 2019 agenda and for his effort on sustaining peaceful coexistence in Kano.

Ganduje assured him that the president has never lost an election in Kano and that it will be the same case in 2019.

 

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