₦airaland Forum

Recently, I started seeing some comments online about Senator Orji Uzor Kalu going for the office of the Senate President in 2027. The latest was the write-up of my senior brother, Iroegbu Emenike. The intent of the write-up was to discredit the senator representing Abia North, but on the surface, it projected him as a good contestant for the leader of the Red Chamber.

I was wondering when I missed this development. Since last night, I have searched all the official social media handles of the senator, including those of his support groups, and I could not see any post or comment either from OUK himself or his aides declaring his intention to run for that position. Not even one suggesting it. I also did a quick check on news blogs, and it was not captured anywhere that the Abia North linchpin has declared for that position.

This simply means that his opponents have recognised that OUK is eminently qualified to hold the position of the Senate President of Nigeria by all standards and measures. If Senator Kalu does not have the capacity to be the senate president, I am quite sure that no one will start fighting it when he has not said he is interested in it. Sincerely, as a person, it raises a feeling of pride that the senator representing my constituency has been adjudged to be qualified for that position, and most honourable is that his opponents are the ones engineering and promoting it.

Our people will say: "onweghị onye etinyere shuga n'ọnụ ya agbụpụ ya". Let me join by calling on the Distinguished Senator Orji Uzor Kalu to please consider this and go for it. On behalf of the opposition group, we have all agreed to support this one. It will be an honour to have a Senate President from my beautiful hometown of Abia North.


Comr. Duke C. I. wrote from Abia North.

Region factor would affect Kalu to be the next SP in 2027.

Kalu should have been SP today had SE played their politics right.

by law is he not the next in line?

helinues:
Region factor would affect Kalu to be the next SP in 2027.

Kalu should have been SP today had SE played their politics right.

Politics or not, who will have made him Senate President?
Even if it had gone to the SE, Uzodinma will have taken the slot.
It wasn't a SE thing, it was an Akpabio effort. He worked for it hardest.

Akpabio has proved his clout by making sure his Governor and a state traditionally PDP defected. If OUK has two heads, let him go to Abia and try to convince Otti, he will even lose that his own seat. Again, Ben Kalu as Deputy Speaker makes it impossible for him, Kalu is a Gbaja boy and is more favoured to remain there, infact if OUK doesn't play ball, they will draft Kalu to the Senate.

fergie001:
Politics or not, who will have made him Senate President?
Even if it had gone to the SE, Uzodinma will have taken the slot.
It wasn't a SE thing, it was an Akpabio effort. He worked for it hardest.

Akpabio has proved his clout by making sure his Governor and a state traditionally PDP defected. If OUK has two heads, let him go to Abia and try to convince Otti, he will even lose that his own seat. Again, Ben Kalu as Deputy Speaker makes it impossible for him, Kalu is a Gbaja boy and is more favoured to remain there, infact if OUK doesn't play ball, they will draft Kalu to the Senate.

I had to look for the thread below to make this conversation simple

Had Kalu won reasonable votes for Apc in 2023 election, he would have been the SP today. His deliberately voided vote scattered his chances .

https://www.nairaland.com/7597555/se-missed-senate-president-position

helinues:
I had to look for the thread below to make this conversation simple

Had Kalu won reasonable votes for Apc in 2023 election, he would have been the SP today. His deliberately voided vote scattered his chances .

https://www.nairaland.com/7597555/se-missed-senate-president-position

I have told you that Abians know their capacities.
Against Akpabio, nine times out of ten, he will lose. Before the voided votes;.
He backed Ahmad Lawan.
He also has no measure of influence in today's Abia asides his senatorial Zone.
Again, the Deputy Speaker who is a Gbaja boy is also from the same LGA with OUK.

Even if Akpabio does not run, Uzodinma will take the slot, this is because OUK is in close relationship with the Gov otherwise he will lose his seat, unlike Akpabio who dragged a traditional PDP State with enough funds and votes to the APC.

Thieves