“I want to welcome back our one and only chief whip of the senate and indeed the national assembly.”
Former Abia State governor Orji Uzor Kalu has returned to his position as the chief whip of the Nigerian Senate after spending six months in the facility of the Nigerian Correctional Centre.
Kalu was convicted alongside his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited and his former Abia State director of finance, Ude Udeogu.Justice Mohammed Idris, who delivered the sentence, had earlier declared him guilty of the charge in the case that had been on for 12 years. Kalu left the prison in June after six months of incarceration. His seat was not declared vacant by the Senate leadership while he was in prison.
“The Senate has no reason to declare his seat vacant. This is not the first time that such a thing would happen,” Akwashiki told journalists in December.
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