2015: Group applauds Kalu for backing Jonathan

The South/South- South/East De­velopment Group (SSSEDG) has com­mended the former Gover­nor of Abia State and one of the founders of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for not joining the 2015 presidential race even when he has withdrawn his nomi­nation form for the senato­rial election.

Speaking through its Na­tional Leader, Prince Elias Odoemena, in Enugu, the group said any move by Dr. Kalu to participate in the presidential race would split President Goodluck Jonathan’s support in the South-East to the advantage of other contestants. He gave the thumbs-up for Dr. Kalu over his support for the re-election of the president in 2015.
The group warned those it described as agents of destabi­lization and enemies of prog­ress, who were in the payroll of one of Dr. Kalu’s boys to avoid spoiling things for President Jonathan.
The SSSEGD, which noted that in Africa’s political history, no person had single handedly made a man in prison a gover­nor, except Kalu, even though those he made were trying to build political enemy between the president and Kalu, warned against heating up the polity.
The group’s National Lead­er, Prince Odoemena, who had been calling for the com­ing together of the people of the South-East and the South- South geo-political zones for economic, political and youth development, urged Dr. Kalu not to join the major opposi­tion party, but, instead, contest the Senate on PPA platform.
He thanked President Jona­than for improving the lot of the Igbo.
“We cannot thank President Jonathan enough because he has shown us multiple love by removing marginalization that used to be Igbo middle name through the lopsidedness in ap­pointments and development.
President Jonathan removed marginalization from our name through major appointments and development projects in the South-East. He appointed Igbo son as Chief of Army Staff, the first of its kind since after the war in 1970; ap­pointed Admiral Dele Ezeoba as Chief of Naval Staff, Mrs. Uzoma as Comptroller Gen­eral of Immigration, Prof. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as first Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Fi­nance.
“He also appointed our wife as the first female Petroleum Minister, our son as Secretary to the Government of the Fed­eration, Eze Festus Odimegwu and later Eze Duruiheoma as Chairman of the National Pop­ulation Commission (NPC) respectively.”