{"id":917998,"date":"2022-01-20T12:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/20\/i-am-competent-but-not-desperate-to-lead-nigeria-orji-kalu\/"},"modified":"2022-01-20T12:27:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T12:27:06","slug":"i-am-competent-but-not-desperate-to-lead-nigeria-orji-kalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/20\/i-am-competent-but-not-desperate-to-lead-nigeria-orji-kalu\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am Competent But Not Desperate To Lead Nigeria \u2013 Orji Kalu"},"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=\"2023: I Am Competent But Not Desperate To Lead Nigeria \u2013 Orji Kalu\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-793733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the Senate\u2019s Chief Whip and a former governor of Abia State, has stated that while he is prepared for the campaigns and capable of managing the country, he is not anxious to become president in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Chief Whip, stated this while fielding questions from journalists at the National Assembly on Wednesday, a day after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: APC Will Not Crash After Buhari\u2019s Tenure \u2013 Gov Badaru<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He emphasized that the presidential election will be decided by Nigerians collectively and the political parties\u2019 zoning arrangements, particularly the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_e9e td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The former governor, on the other hand, insisted that the Southeast was overdue for the country\u2019s next president.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that there were only two zones yet to produce the president which are the Southeast and Northeast geo-political zones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalu Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the Senate\u2019s Chief Whip and a former governor of Abia State, has stated that while he is prepared for the campaigns and capable of managing the country, he is not anxious to become president in 2023. The Senate Chief Whip, stated this while fielding questions from journalists at the National [&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-917998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917998","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=917998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}