Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, representing Abia North senatorial district has taken opportunity of recent defections to the All Progressives Congress, APC to begin mending fences with estranged political allies. 

Conspicuous at a recent meeting held at his residence last night  was Rt. Hon. Chinedum Orji, former Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly who recently defected to the  APC from the PDP


Faces at the recent meeting 

ther  notable APC figures who attended the meeting include Prince Paul Ikonne, Director-General of the National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA); Chief Donatus Nwankpa, Welfare Secretary of the APC National Working Committee (NWC) and others

The former governor of Abia State, Kalu took to his verified Facebook page to share the news, expressed his optimism about the future of the APC in Abia State. "Abia APC will continue to grow stronger and more united," he declared.

Daily Ledger com.ng reports that Kalu and Hon Chinedum Orji were formerly engaged in a cold war after the former  attempted to frustrated the second term governorship ambition of the latter's father in 2011. Orji's father, Sen. Theodore Orji was forced out of the defunct Peoples Progressive Alliance, PPA, founded by Kalu at the tail end of his governorship in 2007.

Kalu, playing the godfather facilities the emergence of T A Orji in the 2007 governorship election. However things fell apart between them towards the end of his first term. TA Orji finally berthed in the PDP which gave him a platform for his second term.

Ironically, when Kalu attempted to return to the PDP from where he defected to found PPA, T A Orji used all his might as the Abia Executive governor to stop him. He eventually found his way to the APC.