•urges Buhari to chair party’s BoT after hand over
By Egena Sunday Ode
Senator Orji Uzor Kalu was at the State House, Abuja, Tuesday to officially inform President Muhammadu Buhari of his plans to run for the office of the Senate President if the position is zoned to the South East by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
Kalu who is the current Chief Whip of the Upper Chamber, said zoning the position to the South East would bring the desited peace to Nigeria.
He argued that the South East zone may not have voted overwhelmingly for Bola Tinubu, the President-elect, at the just concluded Presidential election, but electing him as President of the Senate would engender the desired peace being sought after by the country.
He further said that he suggested to the President to take over the position of the APC’s Board of Trustees (BoT) immediately after officially handing over to the President-elect later in the year
He noted that the ruling party was faced with serious crises ahead of the just concluded general elections adding that Buhari’s interventions however saved the APC from going under.
Continuing, Senator Kalu said it took God’s intervention for the APC to survive internal crises be setting the party.
He urged President Buhari not to completely retire from politics but proceed to take over the leadership of the ruling party at the highest level so as to give it the needed direction.
“There’s one thing I suggested to the President that I did not tell you people. I suggested to the President I said we cannot allow you to rest. I’m going to be consulting the party.
“The party should bring back our Board of Trustees or something that looks like it, so that Mr. President will be Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the party so that every four or five months, he will come and see how the party is doing.
“We cannot just leave the party empty, it was done in the young days of ANC so that the President will still be part of the conscience of the party so that we will have somebody to run to when we have problems in the party because it was just God that saved our party, that is the truth. God saved our party because the quarrel inside the party was so much, the rancour is so much. It’s just God that saved this party.
“So, we need a man like President Buhari to be aside, every three, four months, we’ll go and drag him from Daura and he will settle party matters, we’ll put him back, he goes back there and continues looking after his cattle and rice and all the rest of them,” he said.
