{"id":60773,"date":"2018-01-25T20:50:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=60773"},"modified":"2018-01-25T20:50:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T19:50:35","slug":"orji-kalu-attacks-obasanjo-says-he-has-no-moral-rights-to-criticize-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/uncategorized\/orji-kalu-attacks-obasanjo-says-he-has-no-moral-rights-to-criticize-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Orji Kalu Attacks Obasanjo, Says He Has No Moral Rights To Criticize Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Abia governor, Dr. Orji Kalu,\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_2129977578\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0faulted ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari criticising his poor handling of the economy and advising him not to contest the 2019 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu told newsmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport 2, Lagos, that Obasanjo lacked the moral right to comment on such national issues.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Buhari\u2019s government may be slow in taking critical decisions, but had done well in tackling corruption, recalling high level of graft in the 16 years that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ruled Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu said Buhari had recorded modest achievements in his two and half years tenure, which necessitates his re-election. The former governor listed the commencement of work on the Second Niger Bridge and other interventions in the economy as some of Buhari\u2019s feats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not going to talk about former President Obasanjo\u2019s letter because I am going to make some consultations with the United States, Germany, China and the United Kingdom, then I will come back and speak on that letter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Obasanjo\u2019s letter is not in the best interest of Nigeria. I don\u2019t want to reply him because I have given you example times without number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are three express roads Obasanjo refused to build when he was the president of Nigeria; Port Harcourt-Okigwe-Umuahia-Enugu expressway.<\/p>\n<p>It is being built now by the Buhari administration. \u201cAnother one is the Enugu-Awka-Onitsha Expressway. It is being built now by the Buhari administration. Obasanjo did not build it. \u201cThen there is the Onitsha-Owerri-Aba Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The Buhari administration is building it now. \u201cBetween Obasanjo and Buhari who should I call my friend in real terms? So Buhari is my friend; so he is a better President. \u201cI don\u2019t wish to reply that letter because the former president has no morals that should qualify him to write that letter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kalu, Nigerians have also not forgotten the $16 billion wasted on building power plants by the Obasanjo administration which yielded no result.<\/p>\n<p>He said it would therefore be unfair to the South East, South South and South Western parts of Nigeria not to support the second term bid of Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>He however advised Buhari to speak on security issues in Nigeria because it was threatening the fabric of socio-economic cohesion of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu said the challenge of herdsmen\/farmers clash was lingering in some states because their governors lacked the capacity to handle the situation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/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>Former Abia governor, Dr. Orji Kalu,\u00a0on Thursday\u00a0faulted ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari criticising his poor handling of the economy and advising him not to contest the 2019&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":57072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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