Nigeria, Dec. 6 -- The travails of the former governor of Abia State, who turned the Senate's Chief Whip, Orji Kalu, began way back before he ended his tenure as governor of the state.

He was the Peoples Democratic Party's star governor in the South-east in 1999, priding himself as a founding member and a major financier of the party.

He has consistently maintained that he gave huge sums of money to the party at inception, specifically N100 million for its registration in 1999 and another N100 million to former President Olusegun Obasanjo as support for his presidential campaign in the same year.

Mr Kalu was powerful as a PDP governor and wielded so much influence as one of the close confidants of the Obasanjo administration.

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