The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has said the
South-East cannot get the ticket of any party in an open contest as it is today
without a gentleman agreement to concede it to the South-East.
Kalu, in a statement personally signed by him and shared on
his Facebook wall, said this in response to elder statesman, Edwin Clark, while
explaining his reasons for openly supporting the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.
Kalu said he had great respect for Clark who is an elder
statesman and a patriotic Nigerian.
He said, “I want to sincerely commend him for openly supporting the South-East geopolitical zone to produce the next President of Nigeria.
“It is imperative I remind him that I didn’t betray my
people, rather I am doing my best to reintegrate them into mainstream politics.
“In the last two years, I have been at the forefront
agitating for a Nigerian President of South-East extraction, when most of them
were all saying “Southern Presidency.”
Kalu said he was shocked when none of the political actors
openly said the South-East geopolitical zone should have the presidency.
He added, “I was shocked that even the zone the entire
South-East supported in unity including myself in 2011 and 2015 respectively,
has the highest number of contestants without thinking of their brothers,
knowing fully well that the South-East zone has remained the only zone in
Southern Nigeria that has not produced the nation’s president since the
rotation convention dispensation that began in 1999.
“Coming to this late
hour to support the South-East is rather suspicious to me if they couldn’t do
it two years ago. The truth is, Chief Edwin Clark, knows the South-East cannot
get the ticket of any party in an open contest as it is today without a
gentleman agreement to concede it to the South-East.”
The chief whip of the upper chamber explained that a number
of the members of the Peoples Democratic Party were secretly supporting a
candidate from the North-East so that the South-East might produce the next
president in eight years instead of waiting for 16 years.
He added, “It is rather surprising to me that Chief Edwin Clark
didn’t call the majority of other Southerners including governors working
against the South-East to order or the names he called me.
“What did you say or do when all the aspirants from
South-South and South-West were buying forms to run against South Easterners
who have always supported them.
“I know some people want us to keep quiet and then allow
other Southerners to take the turn of South-East. If you meant well for the
South-East, you could have discouraged other aspirants from running for President.
Nothing stops the South from supporting only presidential aspirants from the
South-East. The betrayers are those who don’t care about the South-East. We are
wiser.”
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