Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, has called on the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to consider a Southeast candidate as its Presidential flag bearer ahead of its National Convention.
Kalu, Chief Whip of the Senate (APC-Abia), who made the call while speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, January 12, 2022, expressed that as far as the party is zoning the presidential ticket to the south, the south-east should take preference to anybody else that was trying to run.
Speaking on his ambition to run for the number one position in the country, Kalu said “I’m the most prepared presidential candidate in Nigeria. I’m capable health-wise, I’m capable to face anybody but our party, the APC, is supreme. I only wait for APC as a party”
Also reacting to the interest of the National Leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu, to contest for president, the lawmaker said while he has nothing against the aspiration of Tinubu, he believed that the south-east is ripe for the presidency.
“I don’t see Tinubu’s ambition having any effect on the president of Nigeria coming from Igbos.
“We are talking based on how Nigeria should be, we are talking who people should believe Igbo
“No Igbo man, since independence, has been democratically elected as president,” he said.
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