…says APC will lose Abia North with him on ballot
Grassroot Ambassadors for Tinubu 2027 (GAFT) has advised President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be wary of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu if he wants to poll substantial votes from the South East geopolitical zone in the 2027 general election.
The advice came afte the pioneer leader of Arewa Summit International, Dr. Bashir Lamido suggested that with men like Uzor Kalu, Tinubu would win his reelection.
Reacting to the report, the group said that Uzor Kalu, a former Governor of Abia State currently representing Abia North in the Senate cannot be trusted.
According to a statement issued by its national coordinator, Basil Igbokwe in Abuja, Uzor Kalu has never liked or supported the Tinubu presidency, noting that he didn’t vote for him in the last 2023 general elections.
The statement read thus: “The fact remains that OUK didn’t vote his excellency, Distinguished Senator Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the last general election. He voted for himself in Senate without a mistake, voted for Obidogo of Labour In House of Reps without making a mistake, then voided the President’s vote.
“Then on March 25th Gubernatorial/House of Assembly Elections, he voted for his younger brother, Dr. Mascot Uzor Kalu of APP and Oziomachi of PDP. What A Betrayer!
“Now he’s running up and down at Aso Villa, looking for favours, forgetting that the internet never forgets.”
The group however stated that it believes that President Tinubu is a smart politician and master strategist who knows Kalu’s political gimmicks and eye service.
It chided Kalu for bragging about rejecting calls from a group asking him to run for president in 2027.
The GAFT noted that Kalu is notorious with such propaganda where he will always jump out to publicly deny it to curry favours, stressing that his old tricks will not fetch him anything this time.
The group urged President to recognize his genuine supporters who have resolved to make the necessary sacrifices for his second term, assuring him of resounding victory in the South East geopolitical zone.
“With men like Orji Kalu, President Tinubu will fail woefully. He will and has never suppored him. Orji Kalu and his eye service will not deceive President Tinubu. Even with the Judas Iscarot hugs in Lagos, the hate in his heart is still as vibrant as ever.
“A man who believed Tinubu was his mate and cannot be seen doing better than him. A man who believed that he was jailed by President Tinubu so that he won’t able to run for presidential elections then and so, vowed to pay back at the right time? A man who deliberately gave Tinubu a voided vote and boldly showed it to the world to prove he didn’t support Tinubu is the man that will make Tinubu win?
“By depending on characters like Orji Kalu, Tinubu is planning his own down fall but gladly the president has sufficient intelligence to play along and plan more strategically.
“Tinubu is very old in the game to know that Orji Kalu any day is more in bed with his opponents than anyone from the south west or south south or south east and will not look back to revenge on the President whom he publicly told any one that visited in jail that it was Tinubu that put me here.
“Other men may be sincere with Tinubu but not Orji Kalu, a man who believed he ought to have been the Senate President but Tinubu denied him?
“Where will he deliver President Tinubu? In South East where Orji Kalu has no political value because many have seen him as a self centered politician? What will he be telling the people of the South East? A man with zero credibility will not win any one’s heart in the south east. His glory of 1999 has departed unlike Asiwaju who has sustained his over the years by lifting men across Nigeria. Who did Orji Kalu lift in south east or other part of Nigerian politically that will now come to help him win elections?
“How can a man who struggled to win his senatorial election be thinking of winning the presidency? Ohafia and Abiriba people will respond to him if APC makes the mistake of giving him ticket again for the senate. APC will lose Abia North with Orji Kalu on the ballot paper but Asiwaju will win for the obvious work he is doing for the Igbos currently.
“Mr. President should ignore this character or he will fail. He will sell you out any day for his selfish aspirations. He has betrayed you so many times even before your election as President. He will fail you again because he has not changed.
“Your second tenure is guaranteed. You are in great hands and soon will see the impact of your grassroot soldiers who sincerely believe in you and do not need anything from you to return you to finish the good job you have started”, the statement added.
