The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor-Kalu, has said that
he did not drop his 2023 presidential ambition, as reported by some sections of
the media.
He said he would contest the presidential ticket of the All
Progressive Congress if the party zoned it to the South-East.
Kalu, who cleared the air over a statement he released on
Tuesday, maintained that equity demanded that the South East should be
supported to get the presidential ticket of the APC.
He said, “My stand is very clear, I didn’t drop my
presidential ambition and I will never drop it.
“I only urged our brothers from the South-South and South-West
geo-political zones who came out en masse to contest for the office of the
president to drop their ambition and support us because of equity.
“If we are talking about equity, the presidential ticket
should be zoned to the South-East being the only zone that has not tested power
since 1999.We can’t have people from South- South and South-West running when
we are talking about equity.
“Former president Goodluck Jonathan, was vice, and later
president for six years. Former president Olusegun Obasanjo was president for
eight years and Prof Yemi Osibanjo is going to be vice president for eight
years again.
“So if there is anything called equity and justice, it
should be support for the South-East and unless that support is given to us,
every other zone in the country should contest for presidency in 2023 including
people from Buhari’s village.
“We are negotiating for them to support us, because I know
there’s no single aspirant that the president, Buhari, has told to run for
presidency. I know him and his antecedent, Buhari can never tell anybody that
he would make him president.
“He will always tell people who go to him to consult with
their people. I have not told him that I want to run for presidency because it
has not been zoned to the South East”.
Kalu also enjoined politicians seeking various political
offices in the country to put the peace and unity of the country above their
ambitions.
He insisted that no meaningful progress could be made in the
country in absence of peaceful coexistence of the Nigerian people.
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