APC Should Zone Presidential Ticket To South-east -Orji Kalu

In a veiled move to shore up his chances of emerging as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the run up to the forthcoming 2023 elections in Nigeria, the Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu (APC-Abia), has lobbied his party to present a South-east candidate as its Presidential flagbearer before its National Convention.

Kalu, a former two-term governor of Abia State made the call on Tuesday in Abuja during an interactive session with journalists.

Sen. Orji said that as far as the party is concerned, zoning the presidential ticket to the south, south-east should take preference to anybody else that was trying to run.

The former owner of the defunct Slok Airlines International says he considers himself a fit and proper person to run for the office of the president of Nigeria:

“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”.

“However, I am a loyal party member, if the party decides to zone it to another zone, I will still support the candidate, but I am appealing to our Party to consider a President of the South East extraction in 2023,” he said.

Orji also said that while he has nothing against the aspiration of National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, he is of the strong opinion that 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 in.

“No Igbo man since independence has been democratically elected as president,” he noted.