The Chief Whip of the Senate, Sen. Orji Kalu says he may withdraw from contesting to be the president of Nigeria if major political parties don’t zone their tickets to the South-East.
Kalu in a statement he issued on Tuesday in Abuja, however, said that it was his desire and intention to run for the Presidency.
He said he is committed to the pursuit, but he can’t make an official declaration to this regard without the full support of other regions.
He said that everywhere in the world, politics is situational and that of Nigeria is exceptionally situational.
He said that the situation in Nigeria is that without the support of other regions, it would amount to a shadow chase for a South Easterner to be President.
He said it is the reason he has been in the frontline of the call that the two major political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should zone their presidential tickets to the South- East as they did for the South-West in 1999.
