Mr Orji Uzor Kalu

Within days of news of the FBI raid, an ally of Atiku's, Abia State Governor Orji Kalu, wrote an open letter to Obasanjo accusing him and his aides of massive corruption...

In Nigeria, Enyimba would die if Orji Kalu withdrew his cash...

At last weekend's conference of the governing People's Democratic Party in Abuja, Obasanjo lashed out at ambitious lieutenants, such as Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and Governor Orji Kalu, now campaigning for the presidential ticket in 2007...

  Nigeria: 2003 Governorship race Abia Orji Uzor Kalu PDP Yes Strong Adamawa Bonnie Haruna PDP   Weak Akwa Ibom Victor Attah PDP Yes Even Anambra Chinwoke Mbadinuju PDP Yes Weak Bauchi Adamu Muazu PDP Yes Even Bayelsa Diepreye Alamieyeseigha PDP Yes Weak Benue George Akume PDP   Weak Borno Mala Kachalla ANPP   Weak Cross River Donald Duke PDP   Strong Delta James Ibori PDP   Strong Ebonyi Sam Egwu PDP   Even Edo Lucky Igbinedion PDP Yes Strong Ekiti Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo AD   Strong Enugu Chimaroke Nnamani PDP Yes Even Gombe Abubakar Hashidu ANPP   Even Imo Achike Udenwa PDP   Even Jigawa Ibrahim Saminu Turaki ANPP   Weak Kaduna Ahmed Makarfi PDP Yes Even Kano Rabiu Kwankwaso PDP Yes Weak Katsina Umaru Musa Yar'Adua PDP   Even Kebbi Adamu Aliero ANPP   Strong Kogi Abubakar Audu ANPP   Even Kwara Mohammed Lawal ANPP   Weak Lagos Bola Tinubu AD Yes Even Nassarawa Abdullahi Adamu PDP Yes Weak Niger Abdukadir Kure PDP Yes Weak Ogun Olusegun Osoba AD Strong Ondo Adebayo Adefarati AD   Strong Osun Adebisi Akande AD   Strong Oyo Lam Adesina AD   Strong Plateau Joshua Dariye PDP   Weak Rivers Peter Odili PDP   Strong Sokoto Attahiru Bafarawa ANPP   Strong Taraba Jolly Ngame PDP   Strong Yobe Bukar Abba Ibrahim ANPP   Strong Zamfara Ahmed Sani Yerima ANPP Yes Even * Petition submitted to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission ANPP ambitions Buhari and the ANPP also hope to make big gains in the south-east, where the Igbo (the third biggest ethnic group) believe they have been sidelined by Obasanjo's government...

Governors present included the long standing Obasanjo adversary Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia State) and several others who had not been publicly antagonistic to the government, such as: James Ibori (Delta); Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (Bayelsa); Victor Attah (Akwa Ibom); Ahmed Makarfi (Kaduna); George Akume (Benue); Bonnie Haruna (Adamawa); Sam Egwu (Ebonyi); Peter Odili (Rivers); Abdullahi Adamu (Nassarawa); Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano)...

Abia State Governor Orji Kalu and Ojukwu are winning support in the south-east by accusing Obasanjo of marginalising the Igbo...

The more populist Orji Kalu of Abia State has ambitions but also a past that might not stand up to investigation...

The Bakassi Boys, deployed to fight crime in Abia and Anambra states, could turn into private militias at the service of Governors Orji Kalu and Chinwoke Mbadinuju...

Other adverts were financed by an Ibo businessman, Kalu Orji Kalu, who has been plagued by unsuccessful businesses...