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Foundation member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has backed the call for the zoning of the Senate presidency to the South East.
According to him, not only is it strategic to do so, it would be in the interest of equity, fairness and natural justice.
He argued that the current Senate Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu fits the bill.
In a statement he personally signed, yesterday, he said: “Nigeria is on tripod and since South East didn’t get the president or vice president, it becomes strategic to start a process of reconciliation and recovery with the zone.
“Yes agreed South East didn’t vote huge for my great party; however my leadership must think of morrow.
“Luckily, we have three senators-elect, two of whom are in the ranking cadre – Orji Uzo Kalu and Osita Izunaso. Let’s choose one of them. At least, nobody will blame us that it’s because we don’t have any senator which was the case in 2015.
“We, the foundation members of APC, need to be accommodated by our brothers and sisters in other geopolitical zones.
“On the two ranking senators on the ring, one would prefer Kalu, the incumbent chief whip of the upper chamber, he has more gravitas for better representation and mobilisation of the South East for future political electoral battles.
“My brother Izunaso has a less than democratic godfather, while Orji is his own masquerade.
“Governor David Umahi is not a ranking senator and is provincial. He needs four years to go national. Orji studied in the North, doing business in Lagos and more of Pan-Nigerian.”
