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Place of Birth: Abia State, Nigeria
About Orji Uzor Kalu
- Orji Uzor Kalu was born on April 21, 1960 to the family of Mr.
- Johnson Uzor Nesiegbe Kalu and Mrs Eunice Kalu.
- He is the chairman of SLOK Holding and the Daily Sun and New Telegraph newspapers in Nigeria, who served as the Governor of Abia State, Nigeria from May 29, 1999, to May 29, 2007.
- Prior to his election, he served as the chairman of the Borno Water Board and the chairman of the Cooperative and Commerce Bank Limited.
- Kalu was also a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) and the chairman of the PPA Board of Trustees.
- He was the party's presidential candidate in the April 2007 general election.
- He is currently a member of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) after he officially announced his resignation as the PPA BOT chair. Orji Uzor Kalu contested in the 2019 Nigerian general election to represent the people of Abia North in the senate, running under the banner of All Progressives Congress.
- He defeated the incumbent senator Mao Ohuabunwa with over 10,000 votes.
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