Former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has revealed that he was one of the major financiers of the Peoples Democratic Party when it came on board in 1998.
Kalu said he gave the party its first N500m and supported the election of former President Olusegun Obasanjo with N100m, adding that if the PDP were a company, he owned 90 per cent of its share.
Speaking on the state of the nation on Monday in Washington DC, United States of America, Kalu however lamented the way the party sought to destroy him because of his presidential ambition and opposition to Obasanjo’s third term agenda.
“All of you know that if the PDP were a company, I ought to own 90 per cent of it because in 1998, I gave the party its first N500m. By then, I wasn’t in government. I also gave the presidential candidate, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, over N100m in 1998.
“How many Nigerians would have done that? Yet the same government, the same PDP, took my bank, took my airline, took my oil licence to put me out of business entirely because I proposed that I must run for president in 2007; I also opposed the 3rd term, which they are denying today,” he said.
