{"id":165353,"date":"2025-06-02T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T20:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/i-financed-abia-with-my-money-as-governor-orji-kalu"},"modified":"2025-06-02T22:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T21:54:22","slug":"i-financed-abia-with-my-money-as-governor-orji-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/i-financed-abia-with-my-money-as-governor-orji-kalu","title":{"rendered":"I financed Abia with my money as governor \u2013 Orji Kalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Senator Orji Uzor Kalu said on Monday he spent his personal money to run Abia State as a governor.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu stated this on Monday while fielding questions on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today programme.<\/p>\n<p>The former governor claimed he never benefited anything as a governor.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he insisted he lost a lot of money, disclosing that the federal government under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo took a lot of his businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu said: \u201cI spend my own money being governor, like I\u2019m spending my money today being senator. I used to finance the state. That is, I never benefited anything from being governor. Rather, I lost a lot of money. The federal government took a lot of my businesses. So for me, politics had been more dangerous under the Obasanjo federal government at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Senator Orji Uzor Kalu said on Monday he spent his personal money to run Abia State as a governor. Kalu stated this on Monday while fielding questions on Channels TV\u2019s Politics Today programme. The former governor claimed he never benefited anything as a governor. 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