I lost nothing going to prison – Orji Kalu

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, former Governor of Abia State, at the weekend declared that he lost nothing going to prison, saying that though he was innocent but he learnt a lot while in prison.

Orji Uzor Kalu, representing Abia North Senatorial District in the National Assembly, and Chief Whip of the Senate, at the weekend said that the prison is a learning institution.

According to Kalu, a presidential aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 general elections, “I am not guilty, I am as free as anything.

“They put me in prison to the glory of God and Nigerian people should thank them because I am better off today being there.

“I lost nothing, I went there to learn, it was a learning institution, and every politician and every civil servant needs to go there and learn; they will have another perspective of life.”

Orji Kalu speaking on Channels Television, monitored by National Daily from Lagos, alleged that certain political actors in addition to a former president, instigated his imprisonment which was later upturned by the court.

“The average Nigerian knows that I have committed no offence.

“There were 19 witnesses in court, and nobody mentioned my name, and somebody paid somebody to put me in jail for six months, and I thank God I went.

“It was a glorious thing; that is the best thing God has ever done to me, to be able to put me in the lowest end of the world. “Mind you, I was meant to be in Wuhan on December 9, 2019, and the people put me in jail on December 5; it is to the glory of God,” Kalu had declared.