The former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has served the administration of Okezie Ikpeazu quit notice from the Umuahia Government House, vowing that come 2019, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) government in the State will be booted out of power.
That, he said, will be achieved by stopping the PDP from rigging the 2019 elections.
Kalu said the All Progressive Congress (APC) has the capacity to end what he described as “PDP’s rigging jamboree” in Abia, and take over the State by winning the 2019 elections.
The former PDP governor, but now an APC stalwart, said a government of his party will “free Abia people from bondage and lies being fed them” by the PDP administration in the State.
Kalu made the declaration at the wee end, while addressing zonal and ward executives of the Donatus Nwankpa faction of the party in his Igbere home.
He accused the PDP administration in the State of thriving in propaganda and lies instead of providing amenities that would uplift the lives of the citizens.
Kalu urged APC members not to be intimidated by the ruling PDP in the state, boasting:
“We will march PDP anyhow they want it; we must sack them from Government House, Umuahia. We will work to free Abia State from bondage. We cannot allow the locust to continue to occupy Abia. There will be no locust in Abia again.
“The State is feeding us with lies. You are told that you were in bondage, but who is in bondage now. It is a government of lies but we will ensure that they are voted out.
“Forget the saying that PDP will rig the election, it will not be possible again, just do your work well. That era of their rigging is gone. All members of the National Assembly went there by default, we don’t want any other default lawmakers again, we want to have active representatives.
“If PDP wants us to fight in the election, we will fight. I am as rugged as rock. We will not allow them to intimidate anybody,” Kalu said, while urging the ward leaders to go home and mobilize to give the party credible candidates that will sack PDP in the State.