{"id":186521,"date":"2022-05-09T20:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=186521"},"modified":"2022-05-09T20:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T19:02:56","slug":"kalu-withdraws-from-presidential-race-backs-lawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/kalu-withdraws-from-presidential-race-backs-lawan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalu withdraws from presidential race, backs Lawan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>He threw his weight behind the presidential bid of Senate President Ahmad Lawan, the latest entrant into the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>Kalu in a statement in Abuja said: \u201cI congratulate my friend, former roommate and boss, Senator Ahmad Lawan, as he picks form to run for President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under our great party, All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am most glad because he is from the North East, the only zone alongside South East that is yet to produce President of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always maintained an unambiguous stand that for justice, equity and fairness in our country, the next President of Nigeria after President Muhammadu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/peter-obi-nigeria-collapsing-under-buhari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buhari<\/a> should come from the South East or the North East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have also told Nigerians that I would only run for the office of President if the two major political parties (APC and PDP) zone their tickets to the South East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why I was disappointed with our southern brothers who are talking about fairness and equity but has zero tolerance for the same fairness and equity in the South.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the absence of a South Easterner being President of Nigeria in 2023, I have my full support for a North Easterner. This is because it would be the closest to the equity, fairness and justice everyone is talking about. It further means that justice is on its way to the South East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank those who said they have picked presidential form for me because they meant well for Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, since there is no zoning and the contest is open to all Nigerians, I officially withdraw from presidential contest in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have also picked ticket to run for Abia North Senatorial zone and to complete the good work I started in Abia North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge all my friends, allies and supporters in the APC to toe the line of justice by supporting Senator Ahmad Lawan, a North Easterner for the presidential ticket of the APC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race. He threw his weight behind the presidential bid of Senate President Ahmad Lawan, the latest entrant into the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential race. Kalu in a statement in Abuja said: \u201cI congratulate my friend, former roommate and boss, Senator Ahmad Lawan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":186524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,3439,1580,109],"class_list":["post-186521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc","tag-kalu","tag-lawan","tag-presidency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kalu withdraws from presidential race, backs Lawan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/05\/09\/kalu-withdraws-from-presidential-race-backs-lawan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kalu withdraws from presidential race, backs Lawan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzor Kalu has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race. 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