2023: Orji Kalu Hails Atiku’s Victory, Says Power must Go to Northeast
POLITICS DIGEST- Former Governor of Abia state, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has commended the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for choosing former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, as his Presidential candidate ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Kalu, one of the presidential aspirants in the All Progressives Congress (APC) before he pulled out due to the refusal of the ruling party to micro-zone the ticket to the southeast, said since the PDP has chosen Atiku who is from Adamawa state, the ruling party must also pick someone from the northeast to stand a chance of winning the election.
According to a statement he personally signed, Kalu said the APC risks political extinction if it gives its ticket to a southerner.
He therefore used the opportunity to call on President Muhammadu Buhari to anoint Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, as the consensus candidate of the party.
The statement read in full:
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“Congratulations to the PDP for electing a North Easterner. Nigerians must have seen what I saw yesterday. For our party the APC, it is no longer feasible to talk about Southern candidates except the APC wants to go on political retirement.
I urge the National Chairman of the party and the entire NWC to stamp their feet and zone APC presidential ticket to the North East.
President Muhammad Buhari has a right to choose his successor and I call on him to pick Senator Ahmad Lawan as his successor. In every democratic setting, Presidents and Governors support and pick their successors. I call on President Buhari to pick a successor from the North East and that will be the equity the South East needs. With the North East, the cycle will be closest to completion of regions producing the president of Nigeria.
By now, all APC aspirants should drop their ambition and support a North Easterner . Senator Ahmad Lawan is the destination.
Congratulations to the North East as we look forward to a president of Nigeria from the North East.”
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