Senator representing Abia North district in the National Assembly, Orji Kalu has claimed even though he is not interested in being Nigerian President, many people are asking him to contest for the position, come 2023.
He said he has informed his family he is only interested in returning to the red chamber.
The former governor of Abia state made this known during an interactive session with newsmen after receiving the traditional title of Kibiya (Arrow) of Argungu Emirate from the Emir, Alhaji Mohammed Mera.
Kalu said, “I don’t have Presidential ambition ahead of 2023 because my plan, for now, is to return to the Senate which to me. It is a very interesting place to mingle with other Nigerians and serve one’s father’s land.
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“There are only two zones that have not to produce the President of Nigeria, including the North-East. I have never thought of running for Presidency.
However, everywhere I go, everybody is asking me to contest in 2023. I have told the leadership of the Senate, my wife and my immediate family members, including my mother, that I want to come back to the Senate.
“My mother’s breasts are two. I want to have the first and the second breast. My first four years in the Senate will end in 2023. I will like to do the second term and retire from politics to become a farmer. Nigeria President is not what I want; they know how they arrange it, if the arrangement was done and I was picked; no problem.
“It takes a lot of consultations. Other regions must agree that I should run, it could be possible because I have the capacity and ability to do the job giving to me by every Nigerian not by some people.”
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He, however, called on Nigerians to focus on the unity of the country than the politics of 2023.
Speaking on the violent secessionist move in the South East, he said, “The agitations in the Southeast need to be addressed or tackled out of politics by way of setting up a committee for required pacification.
“The governors need to redouble their efforts in meeting those behind the agitations and violence just as the President needs to passionately listen to all concerned in the area,
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