Both Uzor-Kalu and Abaribe are members of the 9th Senate. While Kalu represents Abia North, Abaribe is the representative of Abia South.
Abaribe was the deputy governor when Kalu governed Abia in 1999 but he was impeached before the end of Kalu’s first term.
In his book entitled, “Made in Aba”, Abaribe had said he was removed because he did not bow to Kalu’s mother who was very powerful in the government.
Abaribe said he started having trouble with Orji Kalu when he failed to join the league of “Egusi” peelers that thronged his mother’s abode “for whatever reason”.
He said: “I lasted precisely 3 years and nine months in office, before I threw inside the towel. The bumpy experience ended on seventh March, 2003, after I sooner or later resigned and switched parties.
“The one tenure become characterized with the aid of three attempts at impeachment. The one thread that runs thru all of them is that government can make no error.”
However, both men renewed their hostilities in the buildup to Saturday’s bye-election in Aba North and Aba South Federal Constituency.
Kalu has been campaigning for his more youthful brother who's the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate inside the election.
Last week, Abaribe had attacked Kalu, announcing he's but to get over Kuje prison enjoy, and can find it tough to recognize the new changes in Abia.
But in his very own response, Kalu said Abaribe changed into little-minded to assume he is ashamed of his prison revel in, adding that it is odd that the senator he “picked from the gutters” and made Deputy Governor provided petitions to his conspirators.
“My conspirators idea I might be President in 2023, in order that they determined to cut my adventure quick in any respect fee. Abaribe continued to deliver petitions. But you notice, those human beings are not God.
“They suppose I am ashamed to have long past to prison. I am not and I don’t blame them because they don’t recognise my dating with God… Joseph went to Prison, even Obasanjo went to jail. My going to jail is a part of my lifestyles script and I am thankful God allowed it.
“They are little minds and depraved humans who've refused to do any challenge for their personal people. They have stored a centre desk for you and called it bridge.
“You can’t even pay not unusual salaries and you're here swearing to God, ‘na me build this street’. The most effective street the kingdom is constructing is the six hundred meters street in Eziukwu which they had been constructing inside the closing six years; that’s one year a hundred meters.
“Compare my village and these human beings’s village and you will see how shameless they are. If you can’t construct your personal village, is it my very own you'll construct?”
Kalu, who became jailed for fraud in 2020, spoke at a campaign rally in Aba on Monday night.
The perfect courtroom had overturned his conviction six months after.
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