By: Prince Kalu Onuma
PDP has always housed most notable and influential Igbo politicians but the irony is that Igbos in PDP absolutely have nothing to show from their age long marriage with PDP in terms of infrastructural development in the region.
It is very clear that in PDP, Igbo views, our interests, our contributions and our feelings mean little or nothing. This is why every Igbo son and daughter should embrace APC for our economic, political and social survival in a Country we have done more than any other race to sustain.
The leader of APC in Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu makes no pretenses of his Igboness. His primary constituency is Igboland. His primary objective is to project and protect Igbo interests that’s why we are calling on every Igbo son and daughter in the Senate and elsewhere to support him for the Senate leadership.
If OUK becomes the Senate President, he has the charismatic mass appeal and wherewithal to race down the APC led Federal Government to Igboland triumphantly for Infrastructural developments in the region.
The North has many prominent, accomplished and intelligent Senators who are eminently qualified to be Senate President. The South equally has a countless number of such eminent Senators. However, our appeal to Nigerians is to rally round Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and give him all the necessary support he needs to become the Senate President of the 9th Assembly.
This will lay a solid foundation for greater national integration where people are given the opportunity to serve irrespective of the part of the Country they come from.
OUK’s leadership will bring stability in the Senate for the common good of all.
The Presidency should also support this noble call for OUK’s Senate leadership in order to avoid boxing itself into a corner that can be hijacked out of it’s control like the Saraki’s era.
As already well said elsewhere, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu is well educated enough, experienced enough and meaning well enough to be the Senate President. Leaders with vision and personal example like OUK are needed for progress.
Nigeria needs OUK. Nigerians want him. He is not going to be the Senate President for the Igbos but Senate President for the whole Country. No more unnecessary distractions and let’s give him a chance.
Prince Kalu Onuma (Diallo) writes from Lagos.
