I’m most qualified for Senate Presidency – Uzor-Kalu

By Kasim Isa Muhammad

Kanempress

21st March 2023

Sen. Orji Uzor-Kalu, the Chief Whip of the Senate, has signified his interest in becoming Nigeria’s 10th Senate President, should the position be zoned to the South East by the All Progressives Congress, APC.

NAN reported that Mr Uzor-Kalu said this when he spoke with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja.

“I will like the party to zone it to my zone, to my village in Igbere because the President-elect needs people of high character to turn around the economy and work for the masses and make laws that will enable him to turn around the economy.

“This because, I am an economic person, an entrepreneur,” he said.

The former Abia governor said he was the most qualified senator for the position based on the Senate rules as well as his pedigree.

“The Senate has rules, let me be honest with you, if we practice true democracy, I should not be in contest with anybody, because apart from the Senate President, Deputy Senate President, the Senate Leader.

“I am the next ranking member in the Senate going by the position I occupy today in the 9th Senate.

“It is virtually impossible that the Senate will elect or zone it to a new member of the Senate.

“The Senate is an established institution that needs somebody with experience, someone with the skills and will be able to relate,” Mr Uzor-Kalu said.

He, in addition, said the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on the conduct of the 2023 general election. adding however, that no election all over the perfect democracy has some lapses, no democracy is perfect, but we must move on, INEC has done the job it can do, it is left for us as lawmakers to tighten the loss in the act where there were mistakes and make necessary amendments in the electoral act.