“There’s nothing wrong with our Constitution, there are a lot of things wrong with our people.”
~ Senator Orji Uzor Kalu.

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu says he see nothing wrong with Nigerian constitution.

The senator, who is also a former governor of Abia State said this while speaking on channels television, on the recent attack on security Personnel in the south east by unknown gunmen.

According to the video that have went viral the Senator said things that is affecting Nigeria is will the people.

According to him whatever thing that happens in Nigeria is as a result of the wrong things that comes out from the minds of Nigerians.

“There are a lot of things wrong with Nigerian, not the Nigerian constitution” he said.

Below is the video

https://youtu.be/2PCUZGRtgvU

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu who is presently serving as a senator was a governor of Abia State from 1999 to 2006 under the platform of People Democratic Party (PDP).

Kalu was convicted by the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Thursday, 5 December 2019 and sentenced to 12 years in prison for N7.65 billion fraud. He was convicted for defrauding the government of Abia State where he was a governor for 8 years using his company, Slok Nigeria Limited. Days after the court ordered the forfeiture of the company, Nigeria anti graft agency, Ecominic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC commenced the process of winding down Slok Nigeria Limited including The Sun Publishing Ltd which was not part of the charges. Consequently, The Sun Publishing Ltd approached a high Court in Lagos for interpretation of the judgment that convicted Kalu and Slok Nigeria Limited asking the court to compel EFCC to stay away from The Sun Publishing Ltd since it was not part of the court case. He was held in custody at the Ikoyi prisons in Lagos.

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Orji who was convicted had In December, filed a bail application at a Lagos High Court pending the determination of his appeal against his conviction. On 23 December 2019 the court rejected his bail application for lack of merit.

On Friday, 8 May 2020, the Supreme Court of Nigeria ruled that his trial was wrongly conducted and released him from prison while ordering a retrial.

On Friday morning, the Supreme Court deemed Mr Kalu’s conviction inappropriate and ordered a retrial of the case, according to multiple media reports out of the court.

A seven-member panel of the apex court, in a unanimous verdict delivered by Justice Ejembi Eko, declared that the conviction null and void, Channels TV reported Friday.

According to the report, Justice Eko declared that Justice Mohammed Idris, who convicted Mr Kalu, was already a justice of the Court of Appeal, when he ruled and sentenced Mr Kalu and his co-defendant.

He held that a Justice of the Court of Appeal cannot operate as a judge of the Federal High Court, and ordered the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to reassign the case for trial. Kalu was released from the custody of the Nigerian Correctional Service Kuje on Wednesday 3 June 2020.”

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