2023: If South Can't Support South East For President, Then North Can Have It – Orji Kalu

2023: If South Can’t Support South East For President, Then North Can Have It – Orji Kalu

by Victor Ndubuisi
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Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, a former governor of Abia State and presidential hopeful, has chastised presidential aspirants from the South West and South South for entering the 2023 presidential election.

ccording to Anaedoonline.ng, some of the presidential candidates from the South West and South South include Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, APC National Leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, and Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi.

The Senate Chief alleged in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday that presidential candidates from the South-West and South-South had no regard or care for the South East area.

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He also expressed concern over the amount of money spent by presidential candidates from the two areas, claiming that money cannot purchase the office.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on the other hand, have requested Kalu to zone their presidential tickets to the South East.

He said: “I am even shocked with the number of aspirants coming from the South West and the South South. It is 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; I thought they would support us,” Kalu’s statement reads in part.

“The amount of money being spent by these aspirants is alarming and they have forgotten that money alone cannot buy the presidency.

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“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 that is “hypocritical”, “unjustifiable” and “inordinate”. Some ‘persons’ are even claiming God’s anointed choice in 2023. Unfortunately, it is not all prayers that God answers; at least not inordinate ones.

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“What moral justification does a Southerner who refused to be fair to his brothers have against a Northerner running for president? It 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.

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“The South West and the South South have successfully completed their tenures as ‘President and Vice President’.They should have the courage to support their brothers from the South East. If the next president after President Muhammadu Buhari does not come from the South East , there would be nothing unfair and unjust if he/she comes from Daura.”

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