2023: Orji Kalu, Disagrees With Rotation, Says No Zoning In APC |The Source

By Gideon Njoku

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has told those clamouring for power rotation in 2023, that there is no room for that in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

He said there is no insertion of a power rotation clause anywhere in the APC constitution, and that anybody from any part of the country could contest for the Presidency.

Speaking in Minna, Niger State, where he said he went to welcome former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar back from a medical trip abroad,  Kalu said those who think that power would automatically go to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s eight-year Presidency were in error.

Kalu:”Most people are not aware that there is no zoning of the Presidency in the constitution of the APC. Nigerians from every part can contact for the office of the President.”

Kalu’s views comes at a time the South, and especially, the South-east zone from where he comes from, insist that for justice and equity, the position of the  President, should go to the South after President Buhari’s tenure.

It also runs contrary to the position of the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Dr Chris Ngige, who stands on the position of power rotating to the South in 2023.

Ngige, a founding member of the APC, said that in 2014, power rotation was agreed upon in the APC. Even though it was not written in the constitution of the party, Ngige said it was well understood.

A number of people from Buhari’s North, including former Secretary to the Federal Government, Babachir Lawal, and Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, both close associates of the President, have spoken up on the need for power to rotate to the South in 2023 for justice and equity.

Orji Kalu, a two-time Governor of Abia State, is the Chief Whip of the Senate.