{"id":30880,"date":"2014-09-04T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30880"},"modified":"2014-09-04T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:30:54","slug":"open-letter-chief-orji-uzor-kalu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/open-letter-chief-orji-uzor-kalu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Chief Orji Uzor Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0(2)<\/span>

RE: What happened to the \u20a61 trillion Abia earned during your tenure<\/span>
(1999-2007)? My second advise or infact warning, is that you should<\/span>
henceforth desist from harassing Gov T.A Orji. Just think about it, are<\/span>
you the only Governor who disagreed with his successor in office? Why all<\/span>
the fuzz? Have you ever heard Dr Peter Odili, Chief Attah, Mr Donald Duke,<\/span>
Alhaji Bafawara, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, Alhaji Adamu Muazu etc, say<\/span>
anything against their successors? There is something fundamentally<\/span>
childish and unbecoming about this whole episode. Can’t you simply get on<\/span>
with your life, really? But if you choose to persist on this course, and<\/span>
keep abusing Governor T.A Orji, we are firmly resolved to answer you in<\/span>
kind. Our people have decided that this nonsense has gone on for too long.<\/span>
It has to come to an end now!<\/span>

Posted on September 1, 2014.<\/span>

Orji Uzor Kalu2<\/span>

Let me say upfront that I had intended to make these exchanges with you,<\/span>
civil and educated. Apparently, you are not so minded. Your diatribe<\/span>
against me last Wednesday, in your Sex, Crime and Gossip tabloid, was a<\/span>
sickening reflection of the perverse quality of your mind and its chronic<\/span>
inability to rise to the rigorous demands of cerebral discourse.<\/span>

I was not disappointed, knowing you, artful dodger! Your intention was to<\/span>
distract me from the core issue of your dismal performance as governor of<\/span>
our dear state and even more importantly, your prodigious squandering of<\/span>
the over N1 trillion Abia state earned in that period. Sorry sir, i will<\/span>
not fall for that cheap trick! It is the oldest trick in the business,<\/span>
hurling abuses in order to divert attention. Let us face the issues which<\/span>
i believe Abians and millions of other Nigerians are really interested in.<\/span>
What did you achieve as Governor in 8 years and what did you do with the<\/span>
N1 trillion Abia earned, internally (1GR), and externally, from the<\/span>
federation account? This is the question history will forever pose to you.<\/span>
You were elected Governor in 1999 and entrusted with the responsibility of<\/span>
leading Abia State and adding value to her. It was an esteemed mandate.<\/span>
Abia had suffered immensely in the hands of various soldiers of fortune<\/span>
who governed her under the military. Umuahia, the state capital, was the<\/span>
epic centre of the Nigerian civil war, having served as the capital of the<\/span>
defunct Biafra. As a young man, many had expected you to see your election<\/span>
as a historic opportunity for a new generation of leaders to seize the<\/span>
moment and put Abia on the path of sustained socio-economic development.<\/span>
But eight years after the fact, what was your record? You claimed in your<\/span>
initial onslaught against Governor T.A Orji, that he is now converting the<\/span>
projects you established as his own. What projects? You assumed office in<\/span>
1999 and inherited a dilapidated and ramshackle Governors lodge and<\/span>
residence. These facilities had been requisitioned by the first military<\/span>
Administration when the state was created in 1999. You spent eight years<\/span>
living and working in the same make shift buildings. You didn\u2019t build a<\/span>
governor\u2019s lodge.<\/span>



You didn\u2019t build a governor\u2019s office. You didn\u2019t build a state<\/span>
secretariat, (even Governor Achike Udenwa of Imo State whom you often made<\/span>
fun of at your dinner table built a state secretariat.) You didn\u2019t build<\/span>
an office for the judiciary. The house of assembly is still occupying a<\/span>
temporary office. The commissioners quarters your predecessor started was<\/span>
not completed. Unknown to millions of Nigerians, Abia state is therefore<\/span>
the only state of its age where the seat of Government is still located in<\/span>
temporary buildings, 23 years after. For eight years, the broadcasting<\/span>
corporation of Abia state functioned in temporary apartments. Indeed,<\/span>
everything under you was temporary. You didn\u2019t build even a single<\/span>
dualized road in 8 years. You didn\u2019t build one hospital or even a<\/span>
maternity, or a market, except the Igbere evening market. You ignored Aba,<\/span>
Abia\u2019s commercial nerve centre and allowed that great town to lose<\/span>
traction and become wasted. You left Umuahia worse than you met it,<\/span>
allowing the golden Guinnea Brewery to collapse. Sir, what did you really<\/span>
achieve in Abia State? What did you give to Abiriba, your next door<\/span>
neighbour and Arochukwu, the community you claimed to have adopted? I once<\/span>
asked Chief Emma Nwokoro why you treated Arochukwu so cruelly.<\/span>



You ignored the collpased intra city roads and didn\u2019t pay attention to the<\/span>
perennial water shortage. Yet, at every opportunity, you would go to<\/span>
Arochukwu visiting with many of their illustrious sons. What of Ukwa-Ngwa,<\/span>
what is your record there? The strategic road which passes from Umuahia<\/span>
through the heart of Ngwa land, Ururuka road, and which you announced on<\/span>
television that you would reconstruct, was abandoned. You didn\u2019t build a<\/span>
stadium. You didn\u2019t build even one secondary school. You didn\u2019t set up a<\/span>
University. It was Gen Ike Nwachukwu who set up the Abia State University.<\/span>
Governor Evan Enwerem set up the Imo State University. Governor Sam Egwu<\/span>
set up Ebonyi state University.<\/span>
So your Excellency, what did you achieve in Abia that T.A Orji is now<\/span>
claiming? Please tell me? Practically, anything of note in Abia State<\/span>
today which Okpara and Mbakwe did not build, was built by Gov. T.A. Orji\u2026<\/span>
New governor\u2019s lodge, new secretariat, new governor\u2019s office, new<\/span>
conference centre, new judiciary complex, new general market and new<\/span>
office complex, etc.<\/span>
THE TRIAL OF ORJI UZOR KALU.<\/span>
You were elected Governor and subsequently re-elected. The governorship is<\/span>
a full time job. But that was not the way you saw it. For you, it was a<\/span>
part time job, a platform to expand your fledging business empire, SLOK,<\/span>
using the time and resources of Abia State. So while the fortunes of Abia<\/span>
state were dwindling under you, the fortunes of your SLOK business empire<\/span>
was expanding exponentially. While in office, you set up an airline, SLOK<\/span>
AIRLINE. You set up a bank, First International Bank, Gambia. When you<\/span>
attended board meetings of the bank in the Gambia, Abia state government<\/span>
usually paid your bills and the ecstacode of the officials in your<\/span>
entourage.<\/span>

You set up a shipping line. You set up an insurance company, while a<\/span>
plethora of companies fronted for you in the construction business. You<\/span>
increased your equity in the defunct Hallmark Bank Plc. You set up a<\/span>
newspaper, The Sun and also applied for a license to set up a bank in<\/span>
Nigeria. Meanwhile, the State owned Newspaper, the Ambassador, was<\/span>
deliberately allowed to vegetate. You didn\u2019t build any housing estate.<\/span>
Meanwhile the only one which the military government had established, the<\/span>
Ehimiri Housing Estate, you acquired over 24 units for your personal use.<\/span>
ICING ON THE CAKE: In 2007, you took us on a tour of your palatial castle<\/span>
in Igbere. You were in an expansive mood that day and so failed to note<\/span>
that the look on my face was actually a grimace.<\/span>

I was put off by the grotesque display of opulence and was greatly<\/span>
troubled by the sublime irony of it all. For 8 years, you built virtually<\/span>
nothing in Abia state, not even an office to work from or a residence to<\/span>
live in: And yet you built a palatial mansion, fit for a Saudi King, in<\/span>
your village, just 20 kilometres from Government House! You showed us the<\/span>
guest chalet, 72 rooms, the large lecture hall, larger in your own words<\/span>
than the main hall of the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs<\/span>
(NIIA), the tennis courts, the various swimming pools, the 22-hole golf<\/span>
course, the land you mapped out for the proposed aerodrome (to land small<\/span>
gulf stream jets) the orchard, e.t.c, One question that kept ringing in my<\/span>
mind that day was not where you got the money from (the answer was quiet<\/span>
obvious) rather it was, \u201cso you know how to build befitting structures and<\/span>
you didn\u2019t build even a lodge for the governor of Abia State?\u201d Your<\/span>
Excellency, I am still curious: why? Was it an act of wickedness or plain<\/span>
selfishness? Did you nurse a psychological hatred for Abia and her people?<\/span>
What did our people do wrong by you? How could you, a young man \u2013 given<\/span>
such a wonderful opportunity \u2013 so crassly abuse it? How could you have<\/span>
treated Abia as war booty? All the contracts in the Ministry of<\/span>
Information, at least during my tenure, were executed by the company<\/span>
belonging to your brother, Prince Nnanna Kalu. For 8 years, the Ministry<\/span>
of Environment was absolutely under your mother. She nominated all the<\/span>
commissioners and managed all the contracts. Choice real estate in Umuahia<\/span>
and Aba, were allocated to your family or interests representing them. And<\/span>
yet, when Governor T.A took over, you wanted that regime to continue. You<\/span>
asked him to cede the Abia State Government-owned General Hospital in<\/span>
Umunanto, the only one in the zone, to you to serve as the teaching<\/span>
hospital of your proposed SLOK University of Technology. Haba Oga, can it<\/span>
ever be enough? T.A\u2019s refusal, (documented) is part of your bitterness<\/span>
towards him. What you may not know is that it was Abia Elders who advised<\/span>
him not to cede that hospital to you. They argued that you made enough<\/span>
money to build a hospital if you needed one.<\/span>



That is also my considered view. No government in Abia State, now or in<\/span>
the future, should so indulge you again. You have made enough from the<\/span>
system. Something should be left for the people of Abia State. Abia is not<\/span>
a vassal of the Kalu family!<\/span>
MATTERS ARISING FROM YOUR RESPONSE IN SUN NEWSPAPER<\/span>
Oga, i sincerely do not relish the prospects of rummaging in the sewer<\/span>
with you. I believe that adults can, and in fact should conduct debates,<\/span>
no matter how contentious the topic, with civility. Nevertheless, I am<\/span>
constrained to respond in kind to you not really because I wish to descend<\/span>
to your gutter, but mainly to make a crucial point to you. Your<\/span>
Excellency, you do not possess a monopoly of rascality, loud mouth or foul<\/span>
language. Well, don\u2019t blame me, you asked for this, now here goes, sir.<\/span>
You accused me of disagreeing with my father, and yet buried him in style.<\/span>
Well, I did o! So what\u2019s the big deal with a son disagreeing with his<\/span>
father on occasion? Which young man does not? But what of you; did you<\/span>
have a father? When did he die, and how was he buried? I am referring to<\/span>
the father of a governor, the self-acclaimed richest man in Abia State?<\/span>
You once said that your father never visited you at the Government House<\/span>
throughout your 8 years as governor. Please why was that so, if i may ask?<\/span>
Could it be because he was bitter with you? And why? Does it have anything<\/span>
to do with the occultic and incestuous desecration of sacred maternal<\/span>
values in his family? Which father would be happy to so share his wife?<\/span>
Indeed, your Excellency, you should be the last person to talk about<\/span>
morality and family values. The truth is that you have none. You are<\/span>
morally bankrupt, through and through. The funny thing is that it is<\/span>
common knowledge. You made your choice a long time ago to pursue the god<\/span>
of money. And I must say, you have succeeded. But the price is that you<\/span>
are bereft of honour and integrity. You should not complain, after all,<\/span>
you got what you always wanted \u2013 wealth. You believe that with money you<\/span>
can purchase anything. Your latest project is to become a Papal knight.<\/span>
Well, you are allegedly a Catholic and know the rules. So which wife will<\/span>
you present? Ifeoma, Ifeyinwa, Gladys or Waziri?<\/span>


You accused me of not having a home in Abuja or Lagos and that I beg for<\/span>
adverts for my newspaper. You are correct sir. I am a tenant in Lagos and<\/span>
I don\u2019t live in Abuja so I don\u2019t need a house there. But look at it this<\/span>
way, your Excellency; you have houses in Lagos, Aba, Umuahia, Igbere,<\/span>
Abuja, Dubai, Charlotte (USA), Maryland, (USA) London and South Africa;<\/span>
all of them residential! And yet every night you sleep only in one room<\/span>
and in one house. Don\u2019t you think the joke really is on you? If I may ask,<\/span>
what really are you seeking with this primitive accumulation of wealth?<\/span>
The wise man wrote in the book of Proverbs: \u201cdon\u2019t envy the wicked man his<\/span>
riches, in a twinkle of an eye they would develop wings and fly away!\u201d As<\/span>
the Igbo also say, \u201cA beggar is better than a thief\u201d And I would add, he<\/span>
is also better than a serial looter, an abuser of public office and an<\/span>
aggrandiser!<\/span>
A judicial panel of inquiry recently concluded an inquiry into the<\/span>
disappearance of the Goss Printing Machine purchased by your predecessor,<\/span>
Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu for The Ambassador newspaper. It is alleged that a<\/span>
former top Govt. official spirited it out of government warehouse in<\/span>
Ahiake to Lagos, where it is being used to print a certain tabloid.<\/span>
I remember that the panel summoned you, but you declined to appear. But<\/span>
sir, between you and I, tell me, do you know anything about the missing<\/span>
printing press? I also understand that it is part of the charges the EFCC<\/span>
arraigned you for.<\/span>
The problem you have is that you don\u2019t make a distinction between the<\/span>
public and private. As governor, you abdicated the duties for which Abia<\/span>
people hired you, and instead leveraged on the position to build your<\/span>
personal financial empire. You forgot I was still commissioner when you<\/span>
set up The Sun Newspaper in 2001 and saw how you shamelessly and<\/span>
recklessly used your office to market the newspaper.<\/span>



You forced all state Government owned ministries, parasatals,<\/span>
institutions, local governments, e.t.c to place regular advertisements in<\/span>
it. You harassed government agents, contractors, counter parties, banks<\/span>
and other institutions, to patronize it. In 2003 after your re-election,<\/span>
my friend Mr Vin Mgbemena, former MD of Orange Drugs Ltd, placed<\/span>
congratulatory adverts in This Day and Champion newspapers, for you. You<\/span>
were angry and queried him why he didn\u2019t place the adverts in The Sun.<\/span>
After his meeting with you, he told me that you are an amazing character.<\/span>
\u201cHe didn\u2019t even thank me for the adverts, he was peeved that it was not in<\/span>
The Sun\u201d. To imagine that you once aspired to contest for the Presidency.<\/span>
Just imagine you as President of Nigeria! Hmm, you would convert NNPC into<\/span>
a subsidiary of SLOK Group! And they say you want to be senator! Ha, ha,<\/span>
ha!!! Please, on what record of achievement, if I may ask? The amazing<\/span>
thing is that despite your fabulous wealth, you are so pathetically cheap<\/span>
and beggarly. Do you know the common joke about you among the Lagos<\/span>
in-crowd? That you are the only governor who rather than add to your<\/span>
friends pockets, would rather take even the last kobo from them. The late<\/span>
Tayo Aderinokun told me that he and the bank used to buy air tickets for<\/span>
some of your foreign junkets.<\/span>



Your former friend, Prince Sunny Aku is relieved that he no longer has to<\/span>
pick your bills when you are in Lagos and pay for the cost of your private<\/span>
jet rentals. Chief Chikwe Udensi still rues how much he spent on you.<\/span>
Remember in 2001 when we were in London and Governor Ibori gave you eight<\/span>
hundred pounds for Chuka Odom, former Hon. Minister of State, FCT? You<\/span>
took three hundred pounds from the money claiming, \u201cafter all, if I didn\u2019t<\/span>
give you the job, James would not have given you the money, Chuka Obu asi?<\/span>
( Chuka, is it a lie?)\u201d Of course Chuka agreed with you. Please sir, how<\/span>
many governors can descend so low? But of course that\u2019s you. No amount is<\/span>
too small, just as no amount is big enough. Should I talk of your former<\/span>
staffer you had recommended for appointment. When as a mark of respect he<\/span>
brought the C of O of the four plots of land he was allocated in Abuja?<\/span>
Remember what you said to him, \u201cI will take one, give one to Odiuko (your<\/span>
mother) and one to Nnanna (your brother)!\u201d You collected three and left<\/span>
him with only one. That\u2019s how you accumulated your buildings in Abuja and<\/span>
all over the world. However, let me ask you sir; truly how much is enough?<\/span>
Will it ever be enough? What is responsible for this craze for material<\/span>
acquisition, a craze that recognizes no moral inhibitions? I fear o!<\/span>
There should be a limit to everything. But you recognise no limits. No<\/span>
role is too low or degrading for you. As you told Chijioke Nwakodo and<\/span>
some others long ago in Umuahia, \u201cthe difference between you and the<\/span>
typical person is that there is no limit to how far you can go to get<\/span>
whatever you want!\u201d You see sir, it is this amoral disposition that has<\/span>
always worried reasonable people about you. Even in those days when we<\/span>
tried to repackage you, that was the feedback we always got from the<\/span>
public. \u201cHe cannot be trusted!\u201d You would agree, they have a point. They<\/span>
recall the early years of the Babangida administration when a certain<\/span>
\u201cupsart\u201d presented a letter allegedly signed by Gen Sani Abacha to<\/span>
Governor Amadi Ikwechegh on the strength of which he was appointed the<\/span>
chairman of the Cooperative and Commerce Bank (CCB). Subsequently, it<\/span>
emerged that the letter was a forgery. DHQ tongue-lashed Ikwechegh who<\/span>
promptly nullified the appointment thereby making you the shortest serving<\/span>
Chairman of a bank in the world. Sir, some people still remember. They<\/span>
also remember a certain youngster who was surreptitiously admitted into<\/span>
Government College Umuahia in the 70\u2032s as the alleged son of the<\/span>
famous Nnanna Kalu. The story of the pugnacious Maiduguri-based<\/span>
businessman who cut pieces of paper and mixed them up with naira notes and<\/span>
announced a huge donation at the Borno State Public Appeal Fund Lunch, has<\/span>
became legendary.<\/span>


I understand that your Excellency is angry with Abia State University for<\/span>
withdrawing your B.Sc (Hons) Political Science certificate. Pray tell me,<\/span>
what would a reasonable institution do regarding that odious episode? Is<\/span>
it right that a Visitor to a University would enrol in the final year<\/span>
class of the same University, more than a decade after dropping out from<\/span>
another university, write exams and expect to be examined objectively by<\/span>
the same lecturers who depend on him for their salaries and career<\/span>
advancement? Haba, oga, don\u2019t you have \u2018stop\u2019 in your dictionary? For your<\/span>
information, there have been intense speculations in Abia over who<\/span>
actually wrote that exam, including the final year project. I have my<\/span>
suspicions. Could it be that same \u201cvery close aide?\u201d<\/span>
If the truth is to be told sir, you live in a glass house, as someone who<\/span>
phoned me last week said. You know it, so why are you embarking on such a<\/span>
risky venture of throwing stones? But I know why.<\/span>



You are doing what we Lagosians call \u201cogboju\u201d. You assume that you can<\/span>
shout people down. Or maybe because you have set up a sprawling newspaper<\/span>
empire, no one can dare you. However, you are wrong. If you like, you can<\/span>
set up a dozen more newspapers, and employ a legion of journalists to<\/span>
launder your image. But as William Shakespeare prophesied long ago, \u201cnot<\/span>
even all the waters of Arabia can wash away this stain!! Sir, you are<\/span>
besmirched for life.<\/span>
It is wrong and unconscionable for you to set up newspapers to launder<\/span>
your image, turning a national newspaper into a personal album and turning<\/span>
otherwise respectable professionals into attack dogs. No Publisher has<\/span>
done that in the history of the media in Nigeria. A friend of man keeps<\/span>
count of how many times your picture makes the front cover of THE SUN and<\/span>
the ailing NEW TELEGRAPH. No other publisher so abuses his newspaper.<\/span>
Indeed, you have no sense of propriety. How can you devote two newspapers<\/span>
to attack your successor in office regularly?<\/span>



In normal circumstances, no editor would accept what you are doing,<\/span>
especially this idea of a column being ghosted in your name weekly. What<\/span>
is that! You have corrupted the profession. Now you want to be President<\/span>
of NPAN? Ha, as what? Anyway, be rest assured that some of us will review<\/span>
our membership as soon as you succeed in buying yourself into that<\/span>
esteemed position. I don\u2019t believe you possess the nobility of character<\/span>
to lead such an August body. Oga, with due respect, allow me to advise you<\/span>
as your former strategist. Calm down a little and be a bit more<\/span>
circumspect. You can\u2019t continue hustling in the same manner you were doing<\/span>
in Maidugiri over twenty five years ago. You are all over the place,<\/span>
running around. Usually, as people age, they tend to slow down and become<\/span>
more measured and even dignified. This business of hawking proposals all<\/span>
over town at your age and level, harassing governors and all, is<\/span>
demeaning. In government house circles in Uyo, you have become the butt of<\/span>
jokes over your repeated attempts to talk Governor Godswill Akpabio into<\/span>
investing in your New Telegraph. He does not want to. Can\u2019t you get the<\/span>
message? He believes that what he has done for your Sun newspaper group so<\/span>
far is more than enough. It is also quite interesting that you are<\/span>
struggling with New Telegraph.<\/span>



Three Managing Directors in less than six months, and still counting. I<\/span>
heard you also had to slash salaries a few months ago. Now that you are no<\/span>
longer governor to leverage on your office, may be you can appreciate how<\/span>
difficult it is to publish a daily newspaper. And these are early days<\/span>
yet. After squandering the N500m \u201cloan\u201d you obtained from the coffers of<\/span>
SUN NEWSPAPERS account with Fidelity Bank, part of the quarterly N250m<\/span>
Government PR largesse paid from that our brother\u2019s office in Abuja, now<\/span>
you will be forced to bring out your own money. That would be crunch time,<\/span>
since you don\u2019t like spending your own money; indeed, you are an OPM<\/span>
(other peoples money) expert!<\/span>
My second advice or in fact warning, is that you should henceforth desist<\/span>
from harassing Gov T.A Orji. Just think about it, are you the only<\/span>
Governor who disagreed with his successor in office? Why all the fuzz?<\/span>
Have you ever heard Dr Peter Odili, Chief Attah, Mr Donald Duke, Alhaji<\/span>
Bafawara, Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, Alhaji Adamu Muazu, etc, say anything<\/span>
against their successors? There is something fundamentally childish and<\/span>
unbecoming about this whole episode. Can\u2019t you simply get on with your<\/span>
life, really? But if you choose to persist on this course, and keep<\/span>
abusing Governor T.A Orji, we are firmly resolved to answer you in kind.<\/span>
Our people have decided that this nonsense has gone on for too long. It<\/span>
has to come to an end now!<\/span>
Finally, my dearest oga, pay attention to the wisdom of the ancients: No<\/span>
king reigns for ever. You know why? Otherwise he would become God and no<\/span>
man can be God. Nothing lasts for ever. No one holds all the aces. No one<\/span>
knows everything, not even Albert Einstein, voted as the most intelligent<\/span>
man of the millennium. The path of wisdom is to know when to stop.<\/span>
Ask any law enforcement officer, the reason most criminals are eventually<\/span>
caught is that they don\u2019t know when to stop. You would remember the old<\/span>
saying \u201cevery day is for the thief, but one day is for the house owner.\u201d<\/span>
Whereas you can fool some of the people some of the time, you certainly<\/span>
can\u2019t fool all the people all the time. Biko, if you ask me, i will say<\/span>
you have tried. But in all honesty, it is time to stop, even if it is only<\/span>
to review. Your first son (the one outside wedlock) will soon marry and<\/span>
you will become a grand pa. All these gra gra, what is it in aid of?<\/span>
As the late British writer, Enoch Powel once opined, \u201cevery political<\/span>
career eventually ends in failure.\u201d It is especially so for those who<\/span>
don\u2019t know when to stop. Artful dodgers do get caught.<\/span>
As the Igbo say, it is the small shit that spoils that \u201cplace.\u201d It is true<\/span>
that old soldiers never die, but then they also fade away! In the theatre,<\/span>
when an actor overstays on the stage, the audience eventually boos him<\/span>
off.<\/span>
In the old Oyo empire, when an Alaafin desecrates the land as you have<\/span>
done, the Oyomesi will present him with the calabash of death. His tragedy<\/span>
is his own making. Obviously, times have changed. But when a recalcitrant<\/span>
and cantankerous has-been refuses to heed the sunset, he becomes cannon<\/span>
fodder for children at the moonlight play.<\/span>
Your Excellency, I regret to say this, you have left us with little<\/span>
choice. It is not only sad, it is really tragic.<\/span>

Emeka Obasi<\/span>

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\u00a0(2)RE: What happened to the \u20a61 trillion Abia earned during your tenure(1999-2007)? My second advise or infact warning, is that you shouldhenceforth desist from harassing Gov T.A Orji. 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