{"id":183121,"date":"2022-04-26T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=183121"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:46:09","slug":"former-abia-governor-orji-uzor-kalu-backs-out-of-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/26\/former-abia-governor-orji-uzor-kalu-backs-out-of-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Abia governor Orji Uzor Kalu backs out of presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Abia State governor Orji Uzor Kalu has shelved his presidential ambition, noting that he would focus his attention on returning to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>The senator had earlier indicated interest to run for the presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with a provision that the ruling party zones it to the South East.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu acknowledged in a statement on Tuesday that the situation in Nigeria is that without the support of other regions, it would amount to a shadow chasing for a South Easterner to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/04\/26\/breaking-buhari-tambuwal-in-closed-door-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the reason I have been in the frontline of the call that the two major political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should zone their presidential tickets to the South East as they did for the South West in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the absence of this zoning, I shall return to the Senate and stay away from the presidential contest. The reality is that the North is more advantageous to win elections in this democratic setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my desire and intention to run for the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am committed to this pursuit, but I can\u2019t make an official declaration in this regard without the full support of other regions. \u201cEverywhere in the world, politics is situational and that of Nigeria is exceptionally situational. The situation in Nigeria is that without the support of other regions, it would amount to a shadow chasing for a South Easterner to be President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the absence of this zoning, he said he will return to the Senate and stay away from the presidential contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality is that the North is more advantageous to win elections in this democratic setting,\u201d Kalu said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed dismay with the array of aspirants coming from the South West and the South-South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is embarrassing that these aspirants (APC and PDP) have no single respect and concern for the South East. I had thought they would think about the South-East; I thought they would support us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of money being spent by these aspirants is alarming and they have forgotten that money alone cannot buy the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has become a joke to an ordinary Nigerian who hears Southern commentators and aspirants rooting for a Southern President on the premise of fairness, equity and justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can you talk about these morals when you are not even fair to your own brothers?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is anything like \u201cfairness\u201d, \u201cequity\u201d and \u201cjustice\u201d, it should be the entire South pushing for a president of South-East extraction. Anything less than that is \u201chypocritical\u201d, \u201cunjustifiable\u201d and \u201cinordinate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome \u2018persons\u2019 are even claiming God\u2019s anointed choice in 2023. Unfortunately, it is not all prayers that God answers; at least not inordinate ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat moral justification does a Southerner who refused to be fair to his brothers have against a Northerner running for president? It will be very insensitive, unreasonable and disrespectful for any Southern man to criticize a presidential aspirant from the North on the ground that the North has done eight years and power should return to the South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe South West and the South-South have successfully completed their tenures as \u2018President and Vice President\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should have the courage to support their brothers from the South East. If the next president after President Muhammadu Buhari does not come from the South East, there would be nothing unfair and unjust if he\/she comes from Daura.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Abia State governor Orji Uzor Kalu has shelved his presidential ambition, noting that he would focus his attention on returning to the Senate. 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