Chief Orji Kalu
A former governor of Abia State and a chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress in the state, Chief Orji Kalu, has said the Igbo
can be sure of producing a president in 2023 if they support the
re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, Punch reports.
Kalu, who urged the Igbo to wake up and learn from their past
political experience, stated that the “future of the Igbo in Nigerian
politics is brighter now than it has ever been in the past with the
APC.”
Kalu, who spoke in Umuahia, the state capital on Sunday, maintained
that producing an Igbo president “is a task every true Igbo indigene
must key into and the APC is the best platform to achieve the dream.”
He said, “The future of Ndigbo is the brightest today in the
APC. Once Buhari finishes his second tenure, I’m assuring you that
either I or any other Igbo man stands a better chance of becoming the
president of Nigeria. The right thing to do is to work for the
Presidency.
“We don’t need any other thing than the office of the
President. If you see what I have done in our villages as governor, you
will know what will happen if somebody like me becomes the President;
you know that the entire Nigeria will be developed. The future is very
bright and Ndigbo will enjoy being in the APC. That is why we are
working very hard to win the Anambra State election and will win the
state.
“It is possible to have Orji Kalu in Aso Rock, if I’m alive and
in good health. I’m very capable to be President because I understand
the macro and micro-economics of Nigeria, I don’t even see any Nigerian
more capable than I’m to run for the office and work for the people.”
He disclosed that the APC-led government was already reconstructing
the Uzuakoli/ Bende Ohafia Road in the state through his intervention.
“When I was governor, I was busy maintaining that road; it is a
state government road. But when I left office, it was overlooked and
the road became deplorable. So I appealed to the Federal Government for
an intervention on that road and they are doing rehabilitation work now.
“The rehabilitation is not being done by any member of the
National Assembly; it was by my request. I told the federal authorities
that I can’t go to my village anymore and I’m a member of the ruling
party, because I had once spent over five hours on the road because of
its deplorable state. I showed Mr. President the pictures and he ordered
for immediate rehabilitation of the road.
“We are doing the road to help the people, so that our people
can be happy and stop working on their vehicles all the time. That’s
what good governance is all about,” Kalu said.
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