By Bayo Wahab
Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, representing Abia North, has accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of mendacity about by no means searching for a 3rd time period in workplace, insisting that the previous president personally knowledgeable him of his ambition to increase his keep in energy.
Obasanjo had, in the course of the Goodluck Jonathan Basis’s Democracy Dialogue held in Accra in September, dismissed claims that he sought a 3rd time period.
“There is no such thing as a Nigerian lifeless or alive that may say I referred to as him and informed him I needed a 3rd time period. I’m not a idiot. If I needed a 3rd time period, I understand how to go about it,” the ex-president stated.
However Kalu, whereas talking on Channels Tv’s Politics Right now on Wednesday, countered the ex-president denial on the alleged third time period agenda.
“With due respect to President Obasanjo, what he stated in Ghana was a unadorned lie, a unadorned fallacy. Many individuals who had been a part of that interval are nonetheless alive — David Mark is alive, others are alive. They know the reality,” Kalu stated.
The previous Abia governor alleged that Obasanjo invited him to the Presidential Villa throughout his administration to debate the plan to amend the structure and allow him to hunt one other time period in workplace.
“He invited me to the Villa and informed me in regards to the third time period. Senator Uche Chukwumerije introduced ₦50 million, which they shared, and so they requested me if I might take as a governor,” Kalu claimed.
“I stated no — go and provides it again. Even the nationwide safety adviser (Nuhu Ribadu) would know Obasanjo was mendacity; he was on the centre of all of it.”
Kalu added that his fallout with Obasanjo started after he opposed his third time period agenda and knowledgeable a number of world leaders in regards to the alleged transfer.
“My quarrel with him began after I informed Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and George Bush of the US that Obasanjo was operating for a 3rd time period,” he stated.
“I even informed Nelson Mandela, could his soul relaxation in peace. All of them confronted him. I don’t know why Nigeria ought to be constructed on lies by statesmen.”
He additional claimed that whereas Obasanjo had succeeded in convincing some governors on the time, a couple of of them, together with himself, stood agency in opposition to the transfer.
“He had already satisfied some governors, however individuals like me and some others stated no. I’m a dedicated Christian. I took an oath with the Bible to serve for less than eight years, and that was the tip of it,” Kalu stated.
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