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Orji Kalu touts a free-market approach - Tupy
The media’s attention in Nigeria is focused on its attempt to subdue Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist militant terrorist organization that operates in that country’s Muslim provinces and that has been responsible for massacring hundreds of Christians and for the burning of schools and churches. However, the contest for Nigeria’s presidency is slowly taking shape. The 2015 election is likely to be dominated by economic issues and persistent poverty as much as concerns over internal security. In the past, capitalism was a dirty word in much of Africa. Today, many African countries are liberalizing, and some outspoken leaders, such as Orji Uzor Kalu, the former governor of Nigeria’s Abia state, are happy to proclaim the virtues of the free market.
PDP CRISIS: Orji Kalu Calls for Quick Resolution
A former Governor of Abia State and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has called for the quick resolution of the crisis facing the party.
Kalu said the splitting of the party into factions following Saturday's Special National Convention needed to be handled with utmost care so that the prediction of those who said the party will implode before 2015 does not come true.
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