Abia APC stakeholders pay kalu solidarity visit …debunks rumours of Kalu’s death

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abia State chapter led by the state chairman, Hon. Donatus Nwankpa on Saturday paid solidarity visit to former Governor of the State, Dr. Orji U. Kalu at his Asokoro, Abuja residence.

It was gathered that the visit was not unconnected with a recent online media report claiming that Kalu who is also the 2019 Abia North Senatorial District candidate of the APC was dead.

Investigation by our reporter has it that there was palpable fears among Kalu’s supporters and members of the party in the State and Abia North Senatorial District in particular who had seen Kalu as having the chances of coasting to victory by February 16.

Speaking on the essence of the visit, the publicity secretary of the party in the state, Comrade Benedict Godson said it was important that they visited Kalu who just returned from Germany after undergoing surgery and also to further let the world to know that Kalu is alive contrary to speculations that he was dead.

This is even as Godson cautioned members of opposition parties in the state to discontinue peddling of the wicked rumour that the former governor of the state and the party’s candidate for Abia North senatorial zone in 2019 is dead.

Godson said it was the height of wickedness for any person or group of persons to carry fake news about the death of someone, stressing that it amounts to wishing the living, dead.

The APC publicity secretary said it was a taboo in Igbo land for anybody to wish his fellow human being dead, stressing that those members of the opposition parties have taking politics too far by wishing Kalu dead.

“What members of the opposition in the state particularly PDP are doing is playing wicked politics by wishing Kalu dead, but that will not stop the eminent defeat that is staring them in the face in Abia North senatorial zone in particularly and the state in general come 2019.

“Political enemies are at it again; they know there is going to be a level playing ground in 2019 election and they are aware that Kalu is going to win the Abia North senatorial district seat and they think that the best way to stop him is to continuously dish out fake news, this time to wish him dead thinking by that they will stop him.

“The other time, the rumour was that his name was not in the APC register and when that could not work out, they came with another rumour that he was screened out by his party to contest the election and that even his name was not on INEC list of those to contest the election. When all these failed, then they came with this fake news that he is dead.

The state APC publicity scribe reminded those wishing Kalu dead to learn from history and remember what happened to those who rumoured in the ‘80s that Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe was dead, adding that none of them actually lived to witness when the Zik of Africa eventually died.

“People should learn from history, when Zik of Africa was alive, some people rumoured that he was dead, but those who ignited the rumour, all died before Zik’s death and they should know that history has a way of repeating itself”.

Former Minister of Labour and Productivity; Emeka Wogu and Festus Keyamo were also party of the visit.