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.
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
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