{"id":105358,"date":"2023-06-10T20:31:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T19:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=105358"},"modified":"2023-06-10T20:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T19:31:43","slug":"breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"adn ads\" data-message-id=\"#msg-f:1768337721428677711\" data-legacy-message-id=\"188a65c9e0ae144f\">\n<div class=\"gs\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<div id=\":nq\" class=\"ii gt\">\n<div id=\":nr\" class=\"a3s aiL \">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Whip of the ninth Senate and former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, broke down at the floor of the senate on Saturday and wept while making contributions at the valedictory session of the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu cried while, narrating how he has been treated politically, especially by those he helped build and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that he spent his money to nurture.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nKalu who started weeping at 1.19 pm, said\u201d \u201cBefore I came into politics, I could buy anything money can buy. I\u2019m not a thief. Those that put me in prison know the reason. They took over my businesses and wanted to kill me yet I survived it and I\u2019m in the senate with you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never lacked, while I was in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where I served for two terms as governor. I brought the money that they used in forming that party, every penny, in 1997 and 1998, and I later became a thief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople I gave transport money from my house in Victoria Island became agents. This is what Nigeria represents.\u00a0 Thank you for giving me these four years of uninterrupted support. This country is not fair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator who represented Abia North on the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is among the returnee lawmakers aspiring for senate presidency. He had argued repeatedly that with the President from the West, the Vice President from the North, it is only fair and just that the Senate President comes from the East.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the session, the out-gone President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan said that the session was a special one against the backdrop that it would be used by the Senators to make remarks on the journey that started on 11th June 2019 and ended today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"hi\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ajx\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Whip of the ninth Senate and former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, broke down at the floor of the senate on Saturday and wept while making contributions at&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":105359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chief Whip of the ninth Senate and former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, broke down at the floor of the senate on Saturday and wept while making contributions at&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-10T19:31:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"853\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-10T19:31:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/\"},\"wordCount\":311,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Exclusive\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/\",\"name\":\"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-10T19:31:43+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp\",\"width\":1280,\"height\":853},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him - Pointblank News","og_description":"Chief Whip of the ninth Senate and former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, broke down at the floor of the senate on Saturday and wept while making contributions at&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2023-06-10T19:31:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1280,"height":853,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him","datePublished":"2023-06-10T19:31:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/"},"wordCount":311,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp","articleSection":["Exclusive"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/","name":"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp","datePublished":"2023-06-10T19:31:43+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-senate-valedictory-session-orji-kalu-weeps-as-he-r-1667549603380461569.webp","width":1280,"height":853},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/breaking-orji-kalu-cries-at-senates-valedictory-session-says-nigeria-unfair-to-him\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"BREAKING: Orji Kalu cries at Senate\u2019s valedictory session, says Nigeria unfair to him"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}