Fagbemi also defended high-level figures charged with grand corruption such as former Abia State governor Orji Kalu...
Orji Uzor Kalu was until 2007 the highly visible and voluble Governor of Abia State in the east...
Governor of Abia (and publisher of The Sun newspaper) Orji Uzor Kalu lost the Abia North senatorial constituency to the incumbent Uche Chukwumerije...
In 2004 Orji Kalu then Governor of Abia State (who was later charged with corruption) accused Anenih of frittering away 300 billion naira ($2 bn...
The third group consists of former state governors: James Ibori (Delta State) Peter Odili (Rivers) and 20 others including Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia) Lucky Igbinedion (Edo) Ayo Fayose (Ekiti) Saminu Yerima Turaki (Jigawa) Ahmed Sani (Zamfara) and Chinwoke Mbadinuju (Anambra State)...
Orji Uzor Kalu the former Governor of Abia State also faces corruption charges and has called for Obasanjo to be investigated...
It charged the former governors of Plateau State (Joshua Dariye) Abia (Orji Kalu) Jigawa (Aminu Turaki) Taraba (Jolly Nyame) and Enugu (Chimaroke Nnamani) with multiple counts of corruption...
Orji Uzor Kalu's Progressive People's Alliance (PPA) is popular in Abia where Kalu was Governor but faces a strong challenge from the PDP in former journalist Onyema Ugochukwu...
We hear that the main foreign embassies have been asked not to issue visas to serving officials beyond 31 May although some governors such as Orji Kalu have right of residence in the United States...
We hear the investigations are most advanced against the following state governors: Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia); Chimaraoke Nnamani (Enugu); Ayo Fayose (Ekiti); Joshua Dariye (Plateau); Yerima (Zamfara)...
