A former Commissioner for Environment, Solid Minerals and Cooperatives in Abia State, Hon. Barr. Stanley Ojigbo made this passionate call Friday for the emergence of the Senate Chief Whip, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu as the 10th Senate President.
Speaking while interacting with news men in Abuja on the ongoing national discourse on the zoning of the National Assembly leadership among the six geopolitical zones by the ruling All Progressive Alliance, APC Ojigbo urged the incoming members of the 10th Senate to give their support to Sen. Kalu.
He assured that the Assembly would be in a competent hand under the leadership of the Senator representing Abia North Senatorial zone, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu as Senate President, adding that giving the Igbo man of South East extraction the opportunity to be the Senate President would go a long way to addressing the issues of marginalization that the Igbo have been crying over for a long time and enjoined the APC to officially micro zone the senate President seat to the South East for equity, fairness, justice and good conscience.
He described Chief Orji Uzor Kalu as a true nationalist, who has remained committed to the unity, peace and progress of Nigeria and would work for national cohesion, integration and oneness if so elected by his colleagues.
According to him, Kalu stands tall among all others who have shown interest so far in occupying the number three position in the country, explaining, “Senator Kalu is from the South East, a major ethnic group in the country, a ranking member of the Nigeria Senate, has a lot of experience in leadership both at executive and legislature having being a two term Governor of Abia State, member of the House of Representatives in the 1990s and now a returning Senator of the National Assembly”.
Ojigbo opined that being a Christian, Kalu would bridge the gap of Muslim President and Vice President adding, “having remained a rallying point of many political actors in all the divides of Nigeria with allies in every nook and cranny of Nigeria, Chief Kalu has acquitted himself well with leadership prowess to lead his colleagues in the Senate to achieve a better and progressive Nigeria”.
