Somebody is causing signs in Nigeria that many
people dared not, because of their egoistical approach to things. This person
has refused to lose substance for shadows. This person is simplifying the
complicated and, not complicating the simple. This person is Dr. Orji Uzor
Kalu, (popularly called OUK by friends and followership).
Kalu’s untiring crusade for Igbo presidency in 2015
cannot be overemphasized. His love for Nigeria can never be swept under the
carpet. From the United Kingdom to the United States, he has been delivering
lectures for justice and equity to reign in Nigeria. He recently bared his mind
on (some governors-made) crisis that has been rocking the once vibrant and
remorseless Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), asking them to sheathe their blunt
imbroglios. OUK is not a rabble-rouser. But as he took the Igbo cause to the UK
to understand some malevolency done against the Igbo nation in Nigeria, Kalu
who speaks about justice, has also taken a message to the NGF to douse the
lingering tension that has characterised the once moral forum. His employment
strides for the once unemployed youths are story for another day.
It is a well known fact that for the period of 53
years Nigeria officially got her independence from the rapacious colonialists,
Ndigbo have only been the president of this country for just a period of six
months and 13days, while the North has smiled home with the presidency for a period
of 35yrs. This angers Kalu a lot. But, especially, when those who are suffering
from Igbophobia speak that the Igbo are not united, hence they
have been facing challenges to emerge the president of the country.
Social injustice in our country is the real clog in
the wheel of progress of the country. This is what Kalu has been toiling to
re-write, to make the message of justice clear, so that the country can move
forward. Some persons think that his messages are not being recognised, but
Kalu would say that the British he took the case of the Igbo in Nigeria to,
were surprise that Ndigbo are facing such political catastrophes in a country
that is so blessed by nature and, obviously cursed by man, woman, in leadership.
Bring practical leadership into the country again,
Kalu had said that leaders of this country might not have gotten it right
before, but in earnest, things would be gotten right with his clarion calls for
practical leadership. He tells those using propaganda that Ndigbo are not in
unity to go pick their towels from the bathrooms where they took their baths
and leave Ndigbo alone, because even the South-West where ex-President Olusegun
Obasanjo comes from was not in unity during the period Obasanjo ruled Nigeria
like the Owu-generalissimo he has always been; the North was also not even
united when the late President Musa Yar’Adua was in power; not even the
South-South is in unity now that President Goodluck Jonathan is president.
Anybody using the issue of ‘unity’ and any garbage to pull Ndigbo down
politically irritates Kalu so much.
Kalu wants a free and fair election in Nigeria, and
not whether when Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu ran for the presidency, he got
an awe-inspiring vote from the South-East as anticipated or not. Kalu is
calling on all the Igbo to be united. He might not be the leader that Ndigbo
would reverence the way they reverenced Ojukwu, but Kalu is paving the way for
Ndigbo to talk in Nigeria without fear, and for the elites to also speak-up,
without being eroded in semi-blindness, else Ndigbo will perish.
Njiko Igbo being his pet project for the
realisation of the Igbo unity and Igbo presidency, the group is working hard to
ensure that Kalu’s vision for Ndigbo is achieved, using the best tactics to
fight for the Igbo cause, Igbo agenda, for 2015.
Kalu is making sure that apart from Ndigbo having
many brains and those who understand what politics is all about and its
importance, the need for grooming more Igbo sons and daughters is timely.
However, he is not against those people, those Igbo sons and daughters, who
have sold out, for the continuous humiliation of Ndigbo in the political space
in the country. Nevertheless, he wants Ndigbo to chase for substance and not
shadow; Kalu says that 2015 will define the justice in the country, where
Ndigbo are, as enshrined in the Constitution.
It is time Ndigbo came together and understand what
Kalu has been fighting for: there will never be a time when shadow will be
precious than substance. Never! Ndigbo do not lack the substance and should not
be allowed to be seen as those who chase shadow. If anyone is finding to
chase shadow cool in 2015, that person certainly, is not Kalu. Ndigbo should be
ahead of the time that their perceived enemies are setting for them.
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