Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has said Igbo are wiser now politically and no more the ‘mumu’ that was cheated in the past, insisting that Presidency should remain in the North if the South East cannot get it in 2023.
The former Abia governor who spoke on Politics Today, a Channels TV political programme on Monday monitored by ABN TV, said there is no point Southern Nigeria producing the President in 2023 if it can’t be South East.
He stated that the South East had in the past supported South West to produce former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the incumbent VP Yemi Osinbajo as well as supported the South South to produce former President Goodluck Jonathan, insisting that it’s time for both zones to support South East.
He said anything short of this is not equity, therefore power should go to North East that has not produced President before, just like South East.
The Abia North Senator expressed dissatisfaction that the South South and South West geopolitical zones have the highest number of presidential aspirants without considering the South East, maintaining that power should instead go to North.
“Equity should be South-East, anything less than South East, it can go back to the North. That’s my position. We agreed it (Presidency) should come to the South and they don’t want to leave it for South-East, why should I allow them to take it? When they have done Presidency before.
“We’re only wiser today, we’re wise people. We’re no longer the mumu they used to cheat. We’re not just doing our business, we have a game plan and we will unfold it,” he stated.
He took a swipe at the governors for not wanting the President to have a hand in his successor while they (governors) anoint successors, party chairmen and other influential positions in their states.
Sen. Kalu urged them to be fair to the President and allow him have a say in his choice of successor.
He insisted that the South-East does not care where the country’s next President would come from provided the South East will not have it.
He also stated that if the presidency is zoned back to South East tomorrow, he would return to the Presidential race.
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