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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Enrty | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Do you approve of President Olusegun Obasanjo's handling of Nigeria's economy? Yes No Indifferent View results Igbo Presidency: Commissioner Defends Kalu By Stephanie Omojafor, 12.04.2004 As criticisms continue to trail the recent declaration by Governor Orji Kalu of Abia State to run for the presidency in 2007, critics of the presidential ambition have been described as naive and lacking firm understanding of what a presidential quest entails. Speaking to THISDAY recently, the state commissioner for Special Duties, Chief Chuka Odom said those who either think the governor's declaration would hurt their personal chances or that his declaration is a mere front for a more credible candidate from the North "are totally naive, absurd and out of tune with the political realities on ground." He explained that "the varied and mixed reactions from various segments of the media and commentators provoked by declaration, few weeks ago, by Orji Uzor Kalu to contest the 2007 presidential elections are likely to mislead the public in so far as they are based on wrong or false premise or borne out of outright ignorance of the facts." According to him " it appears that a few of these commentators believe that the governor's declaration may hurt the chances of the Igboman to emerge president in 2007, while another school of thought is of the view that the governor is 'acting' or 'fronting' for some other person or group of persons." Odom pointed out that "the former contention is based on the erroneous belief that the declaration will militate against the work of a committee set-up by the South-East political caucus to interview and recommend candidates of Igbo extraction interested in contesting the 2007 presidential elections." He maintained that "the thinking among this group is that the Igbo must agree on a single candidate and support the said candidate enmasse and unanimously in order to realize the presidency for Ndigbo in 2007." Odom dismissed the Senator Arthur Nzeribe's screening committee set up few months ago in Umuahia, by the South-east political caucus as "a loose association of some past and present elected representatives and some handpicked individuals from the zone to interview Igbo interested in contesting the 2007 presidential elections."     Obasanjo to Turaki: You're Misguided 12.04.2004 02:14 FG Out to Discredit Us – Southern Govs 12.04.2004 02:09 Group Threatens to Set Plateau on Fire 12.04.2004 02:08 Missing Vessel: Afolayan May Appear Before Panel 12.04.2004 02:04 Power Outage Stalls Flights at MMIA 12.04.2004 02:02 Strike: NLC Demands Apology from Bode George 12.04.2004 01:59 Poor Accomodation for Enyimba in Tunisia 12.04.2004 01:55 Atiku to Grace Book Presentation 12.04.2004 01:46 Odili Canvasses Sincere Africa/West Relations 12.04.2004 01:42 Yobe ANPP Moves to Suspend Senator Ali 12.04.2004 01:37     REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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