A former governor of Abia State and current Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu says although he believes the country’s next president should come from the Southeast, there is a Nigerian President, and nothing like ‘Igbo President’, as being promoted by some persons.
Kalu stated this on Friday evening during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, monitored by POLITICS NIGERIA.
Asked for comments on Southeast’s clamour for Presidency to be zoned to the region by Nigeria’s top two political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Sen. Kalu replied: “This is Nigeria. This is not Igbo Republic. So, there is nothing like Igbo presidency. There is a President of Nigeria from Igbo, and it is possible, if the country puts the ember on.”
The 2023 Nigerian presidential election will be held on 18 February 2023 (tentative date) to elect the President and Vice President. Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the APC and northerner, is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third term. The primaries will be scheduled for late 2022 or early 2023.
In Nigeria’s 22 years of democracy, the southeast region has never produced a president of the country.
