Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, on Friday said he organised a meeting in his Igbere country hometown in Abia State in 2005 to reconcile President Muhammadu Buhari and a former military head of state, Ibrahim Babangida.
Buhari, who became the Nigerian Head of State following the military coup of December 31, 1983, was removed from office on August 27, 1985 in a palace coup led by his then Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
Kalu, in a Facebook post on his timeline, also said he seized the occasion to host the late Dim Odimegwu Ojukwu and the late Dr. Alex Ekwueme.
The former governor of Abia State, stated this on Friday while reacting to comments about the picture of the meeting which he posted on his Facebook page on Thursday.
Those in the picture are Buhari, Babangida, Ekwueme, Ojukwu and Kalu.
He confirmed that the picture he shared on his Facebook page to mark Ojukwu’s posthumous birthday was not photoshopped contrary to insinuations.
The former Abia State governor said that the picture was taken in 2005 when he organised a reconciliatory meeting between Buhari and Babangida.
He added that Ekwueme and Ojukwu were also in attendance.
Kalu wrote, “Good morning my dear friends, I have read a few comments insinuating that the picture attached is photoshopped. No, it is not.
”The picture was taken in 2005 at my country home Igbere when I had the honour to host and reconcile my leaders; Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu of blessed memory; President Muhammadu Buhari; former military president Ibrahim Babangida and former vice president Alex Ekwueme of blessed memory.
“Prior to the reconciliation, President Buhari and President Babangida were not talking to each others,” he explained.
