Prominent business mogul Sunny Ezeh has thrown his full support behind former Abia State Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, following the Senator’s recent comments regarding the victims of unrest in the Southeast. Ezeh asserts that Kalu has courageously spoken the mind of the “honest” majority within the geopolitical zone.
Following Senator Kalu’s appearance on the Channels Television program Politics Today, Ezeh noted that many citizens have found reason to rekindle lost hope. He described the interview as a sign of relief for the people, who have found a leader in Kalu willing to speak the truth “without fear or favour.”
Ezeh characterized the Senator as a “lone voice in the wilderness” in a society whose collective conscience has been “seared with hot iron.” He insisted that Kalu is finally voicing what the people of the Southeast have been shouting for years, despite the silence of others.
The statement emphasized that Orji Uzor Kalu simply articulated what every honest Igbo person already knows in their heart but has been too afraid, sentimental, or politically correct to admit publicly. Ezeh noted that while others are busy “dancing around the truth,” hiding behind tribe, emotion, or political ambition, Kalu asked the only question that truly matters: “Who speaks for the victims?”
“For years, some of us have been warning that you cannot build a moral argument around selective justice,” Ezeh stated. He argued that one cannot demand fairness for Nnamdi Kanu while ignoring the “thousands who were butchered in cold blood because of the violent machinery he created and sustained.” He further stressed that one cannot cry for one man while communities he helped plunge into terror are still burying their dead in silence.
Ezeh lamented that for too long, the people “preferred sweet lies to bitter truth,” opting for propaganda and ethnic solidarity over reality and moral clarity.
However, he remarked that “one man—OUK—has finally pierced through that fog of mass delusion.” Ezeh credited the Senator for reminding the region that before politics, sentiments, or agitation, there were real human lives involved. He pointed to the businessmen, students, soldiers, mothers, fathers, and children whose blood watered the soil of Igbo land, and the communities forced to flee their ancestral homes because “a demagogue turned our land into a playground of terror.”
The business mogul criticized the public response to the violence, noting that instead of grief and outrage, too many found excuses and justification, preferring to cling to lies.
Now that a figure with a significant public profile has had the courage to voice these concerns, Ezeh argued that the contrast is clear. He described Kalu’s stance as true leadership, distinguishing it from the “cowardly silence” of those who watched their people die and said nothing, or the hypocrisy of politicians who “romanticized a bloody agitation for votes.”
Ezeh concluded by asserting that if Nnamdi Kanu deserves justice, so do his victims, and until both are acknowledged, “we are only fooling ourselves.”
“OUK spoke with courage. He spoke with conscience. He spoke with the weight of truth,” Ezeh declared, adding that “for the first time, it feels like someone finally echoed the cry of the forgotten.”
