Kalu: Jonathan May Be Nigeria’s Last President

Former Abia State Governor, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu, has said the failure of Nigeria’s elite, political, business and military class in joining hands with the federal government to fight Boko Haram may jeopardise the unity of the country and lead to its ultimate disintegration. Kalu spoke to journalists at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport late Tuesday on his arrival from the United Kingdom, saying President Goodluck Jonathan may be Nigeria’s last president as a united country. The former governor expressed worry over the incessant terrorist attacks in the northern part of the country by Boko Haram, especially the kidnapping of school girls in Chibok, Borno State, and warned that Jonathan might become to Nigeria what Mikhail Gorbachev was to the Union Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) when he presided over the disintegration of USSR. However, he noted that it was wrong to be heaping all the blame on the doorsteps of the president and making him look weak in the handling of the crisis without much support from relevant Nigerian citizens and institutions at a time the Jonathan administration is in dire need of that