In the game of
love, it is given so that it wouldn’t be returned. But those who share in the
love rendered return same to the giver most times. This is why people say that
somebody is loved by history. In this clime, we have seen people rewarded with
chieftaincy titles in their different villages, because of their act of
benevolence to their kinsmen and women. At the national level, many have been
rewarded with notional prizes, because of their contributions. In like manner,
we have to honour and appreciate one of our own in the person of Dr. Orji Uzor
Kalu (OUK), former Governor of Abia State. The Emetu Mba, Ahu Mba
Ndigbo.
What has spurred
this treatise was Kalu’s comment in an interview recently that all his
harangues about Ndigbo to be the president in 2015, are not borne out of
self-seeking purpose. This shows that he is in love with Ndigbo, not for
selfish reasons, but for justice to prevail. Kalu derives no pleasure in
watching Ndigbo suffering in a country that their forebears sprinkled their
bloods for. This is not flatter, but a compliment to self-sacrifice, not for
self-need, but for the needs of Ndigbo, who know no other tribute in Nigeria,
than the third fiddle they are placed as, by those who do not mean well to
them.
Known as a
politician and business mogul, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu is more than this. These
titles were ascribed to him due to the distinguished part of his social or
public life that people know. But the dude is more than what people think he
is. In the cause of penning this tract, some persons that were interviewed,
said that Kalu is a humanist to the heart and a secret donor to the needy and
the downtrodden that cut across the country, and does not like to amplify this
area of his life. One of the persons was, however, pleading that Kalu should
forgive all the persons that forced him to pull most of his businesses out of
the country, which made over 20, 000 people lose their jobs. It may offend him
discussing this in the media; but like Ndigbo would say, there is nothing
hidden under the sun.
This is a man who
has left the comfort of his zone to champion for the security and peace of
Nigeria and by extension, for the emancipation of Ndigbo in the political
progress of the country by 2015, with his pet project called and known as Njiko
Igbo. This organisation now cuts across all divides of Europe, Asia, Africa and
America. Kalu sees the emergence of an Igbo presidency in 2015 as
his last plan. What a man with meek, practical and humane heart!
He has never
extolled himself for this selfless task, but keep on saying that Ndigbo have
men and women of honour that the cap of president would fit. He would tell
whoever, that he has no political aspirations for now, but to show love to
Nigerians and, by large extent Ndigbo, in producing president of this country.
He is calling on the Igbo to be very determined than ever.
The ex-Governor is
not only talking about the Igbo to produce president, but that the
marginalisation against his people has reached even to the Local Government
Areas, whereas some surrogates of the current presidency are mistaking
appointments of some persons from the Igbo extraction to mean that Ndigbo have
been included in the things of governance in the country. The later persons do
not realise that the LGAs in places like Kano and Gigawa States, are more than
the whole LGAs in the whole of the five states of the South-East. This is the
bane that Kalu has been tackling and making sure that they are redressed
headlong.
Who could believe
that the South-East is the only region in Nigeria that has only five states,
whereas other five political regions have six states? What about just 15
senators that the South-east has out of 109-member Senate? Kalu sees these
pitfalls in the political equation in the country as biased ensconce against
Ndigbo. He sees the authorities undermining Ndigbo as hypocrisy of the highest
order.
As a man who loves
Ndigbo, he would say that Ndigbo love themselves. This is contrary to the
hypocrisy in the country that Ndigbo do not love themselves. He would challenge
this surrounding-substance by asking if all the tribes in the country love
themselves. Why single out Ndigbo that they do not love themselves? Kalu sees
this as hypocrisy and propaganda of the un-imaginable measure. Kalu has said
that Igbo traders in the market love themselves, Igbo market men and women love
themselves.
OUK does not only
talk, but offers solution to solving the problems he sees in the country. He
has told the authorities to stop any act of hypocrisy or system that makes a
region to feel superior against the other; he has told the authorities to
create avenues that would make Nigerians to love one another; he has advised
the authorities to allow Ndigbo to be president and not a select of persons
from other regions, because of fake regional population; he has said that the
authorities should address the marginalisation in the Constitution for
democracy in this country to reconcile.
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