{"id":915557,"date":"2022-01-12T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/12\/senator-orji-kalu-declares-interest-in-2023-presidency-race\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T08:47:08","slug":"senator-orji-kalu-declares-interest-in-2023-presidency-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/12\/senator-orji-kalu-declares-interest-in-2023-presidency-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Orji Kalu Declares Interest In 2023 Presidency Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_793733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-793733\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-793733 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/igbos-had-no-say-in-nigerias-amalgamation-orji-uzor-kalu-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"Senator Orji Kalu Declares Interest In 2023 Presidency Race\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senator Orji Kalu, former Governor of Abia State and Senate Chief Whip, has stated that he is willing to run for President of the All Progressives Congress alongside former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, if the party zones the ticket to the south.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Kalu told reporters that while he has nothing against Tinubu\u2019s presidential ambitions, he believes the SouthEast is ready for the presidency and that it should be the region\u2019s turn to produce the next President.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu revealed his intention to run for President of Nigeria on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: Tinubu Promotes Excellence, Capable Of Becoming Nigeria\u2019s President -Abe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not see Tinubu\u2019s aspiration having any effect on the President of Nigeria coming from the Igbo area. Because we are talking based on what Nigeria should be. We are talking based on what people should believe. Obasanjo has been President for eight years. Osinbajo is doing eight years as Vice President. And no Igbo man since independence has been a democratically elected President. So it is always good to think of what is reasonable and what will be more sellable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the most prepared Presidential candidate in Nigeria. I\u2019m capable healthwise, I\u2019m capable as a person, I\u2019m capable in my pocket. I\u2019m capable to face anybody. But the party is supreme. I only wait for APC as a party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, contesting for President is not the issue. The issue is who is going to lead the country into an economic miracle, into a turnaround. I\u2019m not against Tinubu. If it\u2019s zoned to his area and the party said he should go. Well, the party is supreme. I\u2019m only waiting for the party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalu Senator Orji Kalu, former Governor of Abia State and Senate Chief Whip, has stated that he is willing to run for President of the All Progressives Congress alongside former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, if the party zones the ticket to the south. Senator Kalu told reporters that while he has nothing against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}