Former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu of Abia State has finally opened up on IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu:  “I think a lot of hate speech had engulfed the country, and the matter escalated because the IPOB leader refused to abide by the terms of his bail. If he had agreed, and probably appealed against the conditions, the situation wouldn’t have gotten to this point. When two people are fighting and the court says, don’t fight, you obey the court. The court decision was not a personal decision of Justice Binta Nyako but the decision of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” 

“Some of you know what Ojukwu said here when he was alive, one day it will be made public. If we say we are marginalised, everyone is marginalised. We are marginalised because our people refuse to work. As soon as one becomes a governor or minister he buys houses in Ikoyi and abroad and the people will celebrate him”

“Remember when I was governor, the army and police used to do joint patrol. We should not box ourselves into a corner because my conscience will not allow me to do what is evil, the demography of this country shows that if you go to Kontagora, after the aborigines the next is the Igbo. The same with Jos, Kano, the West, name it, so we need the peace and unity of the country more than anyone else, contrary to the widely held view over Kanu’s release from detention i was instrumental to the IPOB leader’s release, but I am disappointment that the man refused to listen to advice to softpedal afterwards”

“I am  appealing to the Federal Government to take the issue of restructuring seriously,  We have gone past going to Abuja to share money every month. the federal government should  go back to the 2014 confab report. The South East zone should have one more state,” Kalu said, lamenting that rather than discuss the interest of the zone, “some Igbo leaders go to the president with the CV of their wives and children, but I go to him to tell him the problem of the people. We need peace everywhere, we condemn hate speeches,”