On Tuesday, President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, met behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
Kalu claims that the purpose of his meeting with President Buhari was to officially inform him of his intention to run for Senate President if the APC zones the position to the Southeast.
He claimed that Nigeria would experience peace if the position were zoned to the Southeast.
Even though the zone did not vote for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, in the recently concluded Presidential election, Senator Kalu, who represents the Abia North Senatorial District, argued that making Tinubu the Senate President would bring peace and honor to the nation.
Additionally, the governor of Abia State stated that he spoke with the President about the stability of the ruling party.
According to Kalu, he suggested to the President that the APC’s Board of Trustees (BoT) be taken over immediately after the President-elect was handed over later in the year.
He noticed that the decision party was confronted with serious emergencies in front of the fair finished up broad races adding that Buhari’s mediations saved the APC from going under.
He advised the President to continue his political career and assume leadership of the ruling party at the highest level to provide direction.
“There’s one thing I suggested to the President that I did not tell you, people,” he claimed. I suggested it to the President and stated that you cannot rest. The party will be consulted by me.
The party ought to reinstate our Board of Trustees or something resembling it, with Mr. President serving as Chairman and visiting the party every four to five months to assess its progress.
“We cannot just leave the party empty; this was done in the early days of the ANC so that the President would remain a part of the party’s conscience and we would have someone to turn to when we have issues within the party; the truth is that God alone saved our party.
God saved our party because there was so much contention and animosity within the group. This party was only saved by God.
“Since we need a man like President Buhari to be aside, we’ll go and drag him from Daura every three to four months and he’ll settle party matters. We’ll put him back, and he goes back there and continues to look after his cattle, rice, and everything else.
“I have more time to go before I start going to look after my palm kernel, me I’m not yet ready to care for it.”