No End To Zoning Until South/North East Produce President in 2023 – Orji Kalu
The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, has cautioned the
northern political elite against canvassing an end to rotational
presidency as from 2023.
Kalu,
a two-term governor of Abia State, stated this in an interview with our
correspondent in Abuja following the call by the Governor of Kaduna
State, Nasir el-Rufai, for an end to power shift in the country.
He
maintained that nobody should canvass an end to power shift until the
South-East and the North-East geopolitical zones had produced the
President of Nigeria.
The
principal officer of the senate noted that the agreement at the end of
the 1978 national conference was that all the major ethnic groups in
Nigeria must produce the President on a rotational basis.
He
said, “Calling for an end to the zoning arra...