Orji Kalu, senate chief whip, has asked President Muhammadu
Buhari not to go into “full retirement” when he leaves office on May 29.
Kalu spoke to state house correspondents after meeting with
Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Tuesday.
The senator said he asked the president to take over the
position of the chairman of the APC board of trustees (BOT) immediately after
handing over to the president-elect on May 29.
“The party should bring back our board of trustees or
something that looks like it so that Mr. President will be chairman of the
board of trustees of the party so that every four or five months, he will come
and see how the party is doing,” Kalu said.
“We cannot just leave
the party empty. It was done in the young days of the APC so that the president
will still be part of the conscience of the party.”
Kalu noted that the APC was faced with serious crises before
the general election, adding that Buhari’s interventions saved the ruling party
from “going under”.
The senator urged the president not to totally retire from
politics.
“We will have
somebody to run to when we have problems in the party because it was just God
that saved our party. That is the truth,” Kalu said.
“God saved our party because the quarrel inside the party
was so much, the rancour was so much. It’s just God that saved this party.
“So, we need a man like President Buhari to be aside. Every
three, four months, we will go and drag him from Daura and he will settle party
matters. We’ll put him back; he goes back there and continues looking after his
cattle and rice, and all the rest of them.”
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