The Deputy National Publicity
Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Yekini Nabena, has said
that the Igbos have themselves to blame for losing out in the slot to either
become the Senate President or Deputy Senate President in the incoming 9th
National Assembly.
Nabena said this while reacting
to the comment made by former Abia state governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, that the
party must make him the deputy senate president or he will contest for the
Senate President.
The party
has since zoned the Senate President position to North-East, Deputy Senate
President to the North-West, and Chief Whip to the South-East.
However, this did not augur well
with Kalu as he felt it was a slight on the South East.
Reacting, Nabena said the party
does not deserve any blame for not zoning the position of Senate President or
Deputy Senate President to the South-East but rather the South-East should
blame itself for queuing behind Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the
PDP in the just concluded general elections.
He said that while nobody is
stopping Kalu from contesting for the position of Senate President, the reality
is that he cannot win since the zoning arrangement didn’t favour him.
According to him, rather than
getting angry with APC leadership, Kalu should blame his people in the
South-East for putting all their eggs in one basket by rejecting President
Muhammadu Buhari and casting over 90 percent of their votes for Atiku.
“He (Kalu) can contest for the
position of Senate President. But the issue is, can he win? Nobody is stopping
him from contesting. Igbo people always play themselves out. So, Kalu cannot
blame APC.
“He should blame his own people
from the South-East. He should blame them because they don’t know how to play
politics. They play politics like a one-way thing. They all voted for Atiku in
the presidential election. So, now that Atiku lost, who will help people like
Orji Kalu? 99.9 percent of them followed Atiku.
“So, what is Kalu crying for? He
should go back to his people and educate them on how politics is played
especially at the national level. They should play 50-50. If this one didn’t
work, the other can work.
“So, Orji Uzor Kalu must go back
to his people and educate them because he himself is not worthy to be Senate
President or Deputy Senate President. So, if he wants to contest, he can do so.
Nobody is stopping him. But I know that he cannot win,” the APC spokesman told
Daily Independent.
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