By Fikayo Olowolagba Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has slammed the South-West and South-South 2023 presidential a...
By Fikayo Olowolagba
Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has slammed
the South-West and South-South 2023 presidential aspirants.
Kalu, in a statement on Tuesday, said it is unjust and embarrassing
that the aspirants from both the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have no single respect and concern for the South
East.
National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (Southwest);
former Senate President Bukola Saraki (North); Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi
State (North); Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (Southwest) and Nyesom Wike of
Rivers State (South-South) are among the 2023 presidential aspirants.
According to Kalu, having a President from the South West or
South-South is like having one from the North which is hypocritical and
unjustifiable.
He stressed that aspirants from South West and South-South
are not being fair to their brothers by seeking to be Buhari’s successor.
Part of the statement read, “I’m even shocked with the
number of aspirants coming from the South West and the South-South. It’s
embarrassing that these aspirants (APC and PDP) have no single respect and
concern for the South East.
“I had thought they would think about the South East. The
amount of money being spent by these aspirants is alarming and they have
forgotten that money alone can’t buy the presidency.
“It has become a joke to an ordinary Nigerian who hears
Southern commentators and aspirants rooting for a Southern President on the
premise of fairness, equity and justice. How can you talk about these morals
when you are not even fair to your own brothers?
“If there is anything like “fairness”, “equity” and
“justice”, it should be the entire South pushing for a president of South-East
extraction. Anything less than this is “hypocritical”, “unjustifiable” and
“inordinate”.
“What moral justification does a Southerner who refused to
be fair to his brothers have against a Northerner running for president?
“This will be very insensitive, unreasonable and
disrespectful for any Southern man to criticize a presidential aspirant from
the North on the ground that the North has done eight years and power should
return to the South.”
Kalu urged the South West and the South-South to support
their brothers from South East, adding that they have successfully completed
their tenures as ‘President and Vice President’.
“If the next president after President Muhammadu Buhari
doesn’t come from the South East, there would be nothing unfair and unjust if
he or she comes from Daura,” Kalu said.
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