Buhari Loves Igbo, Kalu Asserts With Reasons

   Former Abia state governor and Chieftain of the APC Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu has asserted that president Muhammadu Buhari loves Igbo and the South East and reasons for his assertion.

   He therefore counseled Igbo to change this their negative perception of president Muhammadu Buhari which (perception) he said, gave/gives the impression that the president hated/hates Igbo and the south easterners.

   Kalu who asserted this while addressing APC members at his Igbere country home in Bende LGA, said that President Buhari loves Ndigbo and is doing what former presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, the late Musa Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan could not do for the Igbo region when they ruled the country.

   Kalu pointed that President Buhari is doing a lot of work that PDP didn’t do during the 16 years it ruled this country including the second Niger Bridge that is being constructed by president Buhari led federal government.

   According to Kalu "our past presidents promised to build this second Niger Bridge but they didn’t do it. Ex presidents Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan promised to do it and failed. I predict that come 2019 election, Abia State electorate will give President Buhari 75 percent of their votes” 

   Kalu while decrying hate speeches and negative remarks on the social media said that these make Nigeria look like a bad nation. "No matter how bad the country is, Nigeria remains our country and there is no other place we can run to. We should stop calling our leaders names on social media and painting our country bad before the world".

   On the coming 2019 election in Abia state, Kalu tasked Abians to unite and commit to effecting a change of the PDP led government and thereafter return to the country's mainstream politics.

   Boasting that Come rain, come shine, there must be a change of party in Abia in 2019; he said, " Abia state cannot belong to where our country's President is not. Our party is committed to free education, we are committed to paying pensioners, and we are committed to free health care and ideals of true democracy".