NATIONAL: Forget 2023 presidency, Orji Kalu tells Igbos

FORMER Governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, has urged people of the Southeast region to forget their agitations for the presidency in 2023 and restructuring of the country. 

The Senate Chief Whip made this known on Thursday in Umuahia, Abia State capital, when he paid a condolence visit to representative of Umuahia East Constituency, Chukwudi Apugo, in the State House of Assembly, who lost his mother recently.

Kalu criticised the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, for rejecting his proposal to work for the emergence of president of Igbo extraction, but kept dissipating their energy on restructuring.

The Abia North Senator, however, said at the right time, Ndigbo would get their fair share in Nigeria with one of their own as president of the country.

Kalu has severally hinted at vying for Nigeria’s most-coveted position in 2023. 

“I am still in the senate, and I will seek for re-election into the senate but if our people want me to serve as president, I will not hesitate,” he said in September.