PDP never won elections in the S’East – Kalu

Firstclass newsline learnt that Kalu, who was an ardent supporter of
President Goodluck Jonathan before the elections, said this during a
programme on Channels TV titled, "View from the Top," on Monday.
The former governor said out of the five states in the South-East, the
PDP only won elections in Ebonyi and Enugu states.
He said it would, therefore, be unfair to accuse the Igbo of voting en
masse for the PDP.
Kalu said the people of Abia State voted against the PDP because of
their feelings towards Governor Theodore Orji and the overbearing
nature of the President's wife, Patience Jonathan.
The former governor, who lost the Abia-North senatorial election on
the platform of the Progressives Peoples Alliance, maintained that he
did not lose but that the PDP rigged the election.
He said, "The issue is that what happened in my constituency was a
rigged election. Apart from Enugu and Ebonyi states, where the PDP had
very good outings, every other state they won in the South-East was
rigged.
"So, the Igbo did not make any mistakes, I feel bad when I see people
blaming the Igbo. In the presidential election, the result brought out
from Abia where I was, did not reflect the voting pattern of the
people.
"In Aba, I can tell you and I will tell Jonathan, that he did not win
election in Aba. The APC won the election there but when I saw the
result, it was a different thing because the people were angry because
of the attitude of T. A Orji and the occasional interference of the
wife of the President. People were angry."
Kalu said it would be unfair to criticise a geopolitical zone for
voting en masse for a party, adding that in 1999, the South-West voted
massively for the then Alliance for Democracy even though Olusegun
Obasanjo of the PDP is from the zone.
The former governor said the PDP lost the general election because of
its greed and superiority complex.
He said he and a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu,
had planned to form a merger around 2007 but his political associates
in the South-East thwarted the plans.
He said he was not surprised that Tinubu went on to form Nigeria's
biggest opposition party which finally defeated the PDP.
He said, "The PDP was bound to lose the elections because many people
were very greedy. There was impunity; people in the party felt they
were mini gods. And when you feel that God Almighty is no longer God
and that you are the new God, you are bound to fail and that was what
happened.
"The PDP felt that they could afford anything money could buy. My
brothers, the Igbo didn't understand the local politics. What you see
in the country today was planned by Bola Tinubu and me.
"He is alive, you can ask him. He planned to go with the Action
Congress and I planned to go with the PPA. We said at the same time,
we could come back to the stage but the two governors we had from the
South-East were not as forthright as Governor Babatunde Fashola.
Fashola was the only AC governor at the time."
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