Kalu, brother differs on PPA merger with PDP

While the former governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu was said to have dumped his plan to dissolve the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), his younger brother and political ally, Mr. Nnanna Uzor Kalu, has hailed the decision to fuse with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), ahead of the 2011 general elections.
Nnanna Kalu who represents the Aba North/Abia South Federal Constituency of Abia State in the Federal House of Representative, also expressed satisfaction with the way the PDP leadership extended its hands of fellowship to members of the now defunct PPA, describing it as democracy at work.
But sources close to the PDP confirmed to the media that Kalu and others in the PPA had called off further discussions over the possibility of the two parties merging.
It was gathered that the former governor was hoping to fly the South-East flag in the 2011 race, though the zone had been unable to come out with a united voice in the 2011 election, so far.
Sources close to Kalu, said the former governor, who contested the 2007 presidential election, had made up his mind on the presidential contest and had decided to revive the PPA, instead of dissolving it into the PDP.
It was gathered that the former governor had a rethink about his future in the PDP, following the immediate opposition raised about his planned return to the party by some leaders of the PDP in Abia State.
The state governor, Chief Theodore Orji, who is regarded as Kalu’s political son, had recently returned to the PDP, after he originally defected from the PPA to the All Progressives Peoples Alliance (APGA) and then to the PDP.
As the sources close to Orji Kalu emphasized that he would go back to revive the PPA, his younger brother told the Sun Newspaper in Abuja recently that he had gone back to PDP which is the umbrella that would accommodate everybody.

Orji Uzor Kalu was among the people that founded the Peoples Democratic Party, while his younger brother won the the Federal House of Representative seat under the umbrella of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 2003. And in 2007, he joined the PPA from where he won the election for the second tenure. But now he is enthusiastic about joining the PDP for the 2011 election where he hoped to go for the Senate.