Obasanjo punished me for not supporting his third term bid - Orji Kalu
- Chief Orji Kalu blmed Obasanjo for the crash of one of his business
- He said he did not support the former president's third term bid
- He said this resulted in his withdrawing of his licence
Orji Uzor Kalu who was a former governor of Abia state has accused former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of punishing him because he did not support his third term bid.
In an interview with Daily Independent, the All Progressives Congress (APC0 chieftain said the former president ordered withdrawal of licence of his companies – Hallmark Bank and Slok Airline.
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He said: : “The 9,000 workers I mentioned are all here in Nigeria and we could have been a larger group if Hallmark Bank was not closed and its license withdrawn.
“A bank with 5,000 workers and 33 branches and someone cancelled the license in one day for political reasons and that takes us to where we are now in Africa. Somebody cancelled the license of an airline with 14 aircraft in a day and nobody asked questions.
“How do you convince people to come and invest in your country when a president (Obasanjo) can wake up and order the Central Bank and the Ministry of Aviation to cancel licenses without due process? I am in court with the Federal Government. So, I won’t dwell more on the issue.
“The whole process was totally flawed. There was no offence committed, just because we disagreed on third term and that was the price I paid. It was uncalled for to take such action without considering the many families that would be affected.
“So, these are the major factors that discourage investors from having long term businesses in the country. When politicians quarrel in America, they quarrel as politicians, they don’t go about attacking each other’s businesses.
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“They talk about politics face to face; they agree and disagree; they quarrel based on politics and they agree and disagree on issues. These are what our political leaders engaged in which is not fair at all. They should not channel their grievances to businesses which people make their living from.”
Meanwhile, Obasanjo reacted to the botched recall of a former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, saying it should never have happened.
Thisday reports that the former president spoke at the 2017 Foundation Day Public Lecture titled: “Corruption and the Challenges of the African Child” on Saturday, October 28 in Ibadan.
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