Nigeria: T.A Orji, Orji Kalu, ABSU Degree Certificate and Godfather-Godson Relationship

9 March 2013
analysis

For the live of me, when will politics ever end, and decency and decorum thrive in our land. Why I'm I saying this? It's in respect of this unending war unleashed on former Abia State Governor Orji Uzor Kalu by the man he handpicked and foisted on the state as his successor, Governor Theodore Orji. After moves to block Kalu's return to PDP failed, the governor and his cohorts quickly resorted to getting his Abia State University degree certificate awarded him 12 years ago withdrawn.

Governor Orji says he has no hand in the certificate cancellation. He says it's the same ABSU Senate, which awarded it in the first instance that withdrew it. I believe the governor. Yes, the decision to withdraw the certificate was contained in a statement signed by the Registrar and Secretary of the Senate of the university, Mr. Earnest Onuoha. Yes, it was released last weekend after the Senate meeting where it was approved that the certificate be withdrawn and cancelled.

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