{"id":236386,"date":"2025-10-08T19:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/orji-kalu-declares-himself-most-influential-politician-in-south-east\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T19:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T19:41:25","slug":"orji-kalu-declares-himself-most-influential-politician-in-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/orji-kalu-declares-himself-most-influential-politician-in-south-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Orji Kalu Declares Himself Most Influential Politician in South East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/abia\">Abia <\/a>State Governor and Senator, Orji Uzor Kalu, has proclaimed himself the most important political figure in Nigeria\u2019s South East, dismissing claims that Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi is his leader.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on Wednesday, Kalu highlighted his political achievements, arguing that his electoral and administrative record surpasses Obi\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter is not my leader. I\u2019m the most important politician from that zone. I have won two states before under the PPA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have run for president before. My 4.9 million votes are still there since 2007,\u201d Kalu stated.<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that his influence extended to the federal level during the administration of the late President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI achieved a lot with PPA. We had ministers, ambassadors, and several appointments under President Yar\u2019Adua,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Challenging Obi directly, Kalu added: \u201cArrange in your studio a meeting between me and Peter Obi. Put two of us in the same place.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content \/--><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- .share-buttons \/--><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Abia State Governor and Senator, Orji Uzor Kalu, has proclaimed himself the most important political figure in Nigeria\u2019s South East, dismissing claims that Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi is his leader. Speaking in an interview on Wednesday, Kalu highlighted his political achievements, arguing that his electoral and administrative record surpasses Obi\u2019s. \u201cPeter is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":236387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9198.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}