Former Governor of Abia state,
Orji Uzor Kalu, has said that Igbo people should not bother about producing
Nigeria’s president in 2019.
Speaking to Punch, Kalu stated
that if President Muhammadu Buhari doesn’t want to run, another candidate from
the North should be picked to complete their eight-year tenure.
“We have a sitting president in
the All Progressives Congress and if he is not running again in 2019, the North
should complete their eight-year tenure but I would advise President Buhari to
run because he is entitled to a second term under the constitution,” he said.
Kalu also told Igbos to wait
until 2023, before they think of producing a president.
He added: “Yes. The Igbo will
produce the president in 2023. If Buhari is not running in 2019, another Hausa
man should be allowed to complete his second term. When Yar’Adua died, Jonathan
came but if he had listened to the people’s advice, this situation will not be
there because if I were Jonathan, I would have ruled for six years and allowed
other people to run.
“Other tribes have produced a
president, so it is the turn of the Igbo too. Obasanjo was elected president in
1999 despite the fact that the Yoruba did not vote for him. He lost in his
ward; I was there on the Election Day. So, any Igbo man that is widely accepted
can be president of Nigeria. How did Obasanjo and Buhari become president? Are
they better than any Igbo man? The answer is no!
The issue is that if they know
how they made Obasanjo, Yar’Adua, Jonathan and Buhari president, they should
also make an Igbo man president so that there can be complete unity and we
would forget about the civil war because not making an Igbo president will
still remind our people that the marginalisation which started after the civil
war has not ended.”
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Well spoken Governor Kalu
ReplyDeletePresidency is just one man. This argument is for selfish leaders who do nothing but loot.
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