seunmsg:
Fairness and equity means getting the desired reward for ones labour and not reaping where one has not sowed.

odoemelamemmanu:
Tinubu, Osibanjo, Amaechi, Saraki, are not their brothers keepers. They're wicked

odoemelamemmanu:
2023 Presidency: The Fairness I Know

It is my desire and intention to run for the Presidency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. I am committed to this pursuit, but I can’t make an official declaration in this regard without the full support of other regions. Everywhere in the world, politics is situational and that of Nigeria is exceptionally situational.

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. This is the reason I have been on 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. In the absence of this zoning, I shall return to the Senate and stay away from the presidential contest. The reality is that the North is more advantageous to winning elections in this democratic setting.

I am even shocked with the number of aspirants coming from the South West and the South-South. It is embarrassing that these aspirants (APC and PDP) have no single respect and concern for the South East. I had thought they would think about the southeast; I thought they would support us. The amount of money being spent by these aspirants is alarming and they have forgotten that money alone cannot buy the presidency.

It has become a joke to an ordinary Nigerian who hears Southern commentators and aspirants rooting for a Southern President on the premise of fairness, equity, and justice.

How can you talk about these morals when you are not even fair to your brothers?

If there is anything like "fairness", "equity" and "justice'', it should be the entire South pushing for a president of the southeast extraction. Anything less than that is "hypocritical", "unjustifiable" and "inordinate". Some 'persons' are even claiming God’s anointed choice in 2023. Unfortunately, it is not all prayers that God answers; at least not inordinate ones.

What moral justification does a Southerner who refused to be fair to his brothers have against a Northerner running for president? It will be very insensitive, unreasonable, and disrespectful for any Southern man to criticize a presidential aspirant from the North on the ground that the North has done eight years and power should return to the South.

The South West and the South-South have successfully completed their tenures as 'President and Vice President'.They should have the courage to support their brothers from the South East. If the next president after President Muhammadu Buhari does not come from the South East, there would be nothing unfair and unjust if he/she comes from Daura.

This country belongs to all of us and the unity of the country should be paramount. If not for selfishness and greed, how can you say that where a president comes from does not matter simply because you don’t want to support a president of Nigeria from the South East, but turn around to clamor for a power shift to the South? How do we explain this to the younger generation? Let the wise and courageous stay firm on their convictions and not swing on the two sides of the Atlantic.

If you are convinced that where a president comes from does not matter, let Nigerians not hear you clamor for a power shift. Be brave to encourage everyone to run, including President Buhari’s kinsmen. But if you have a conscience and believe in equality, then you should support the South East region that is yet to produce a president. That is what I consider fairness.

The two regions that are yet to produce a President are South East and North East. If this means anything to Nigerians, the APC and PDP should be fair enough to prioritize these regions. If power should come to the South and not the South East or North and not the North East, the essence for which the six geopolitical zones were created is long dead.

To Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Edwin Clark, Deji Adeyanju, and a host of others who has stood firm in their support for their brothers in the South East, posterity will be kind to you.

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu MON
Chief Whip of the 9th Senate
Federal Republic of Nigeria

https://osunreporters.com/2022/04/2023-presidency-the-fairness-i-know/

paramakina202:


As my able Senator OUK said,Its either power rotates to SE or North is free to continue.It is your choice.

farous:
May God bless Orji Kalu for speaking out this bitter truth. I was shocked seeing South West (Yorubas) and South South ( Niger Delta) working against South East ( Igbos) when they have already taken the slot through Obasanjo and Jonathan. Where is the fairness and equity?. What is the fairness that SW, SE and SS are clamouring that power should be shifted to the South yet SW and SS are clamouring that it should be them?, so that's the fairness?. So funny. Then it's better let it remain in the North or all the zones in Nigeria should contest and let their be no North/South sharing

seunmsg:


Unfortunately, SE is not in a position to decide who rules Nigeria or not. Your votes are too inconsequential to determine who wins the presidential election. So take the back seat when we’re discussing who becomes the next president of Nigeria. You have no say. Period!

Nigerialabalaba:

Oga, leave dis story of blackmail, Yoruba people support make PDP give hin ticket to Ibo but asking Yoruba to waste their vote in a contest between Ibo APC candidate vs Ibo PDP candidate na scam because even Ibo people sabi say d APC candidate no go win.
D OUK wey dey yarn lost election recently thru his broda and I remember how he campaign and campaign for hin broda.
Ibo people hate APC

MadamExcellency:


The Southeast has a block vote while the Southwest is a battleground region with the finest ratio of 45% to 55%

prince57:


But Apc won in his senatorial district. Buhari won in his senatorial district. Brother, what the heck are you saying?

seunmsg:


Unfortunately, SE is not in a position to decide who rule Nigeria or not. Your votes are too inconsequential to determine who wins the presidential election. So take the back seat when we’re discussing who becomes the next president of Nigeria. You have no say. Period!

paramakina202:


As my able Senator OUK said,Its either power rotates to SE or North is free to continue.It is your choice.

paramakina202:


If southwest vote is not inconsequential Awolowo would have been president in 1979 and 1983.
In 1998 we all saw how inconsequential your vote was when southwest voted for AD candidate and lost woefully.
Without southwest votes Obasanjo became president.
Southwest has been inconsequential to determine who wins election in Nigeria election since indepedence until 2015 when they allied with Buhari.

Siwel25:


Even Orji Kalu knows that only the PDP owes the East their Ticket and that is what every honest Nigerian will agree with. It amounts to daylight robbery for the East to give PDP 80% of their votes and be asking for APC's ticket. On what basis? A party they mock openly and castigate? Only a party of idiots and saboteurs will make that grave mistake.

Nigerialabalaba:


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-56565208.amp

seunmsg:


The part in bold is the only relevant part of your post. What happened in 1979 and 1999 is no longer relevant. You’ve seen the trend from 2015, it will continue for a very long time. And with the nuisance of IPOB, SE votes will continue to be irrelevant and inconsequential for a very long time to come.

MadamExcellency:


The Southeast has a block vote while the Southwest is a battleground region with the finest ratio of 45% to 55%.

If the elections were to be between a Southwesterner and a Northerner in Nigeria, the Southwest can't win without the Southeast vote.

paramakina202:


So what is the big?
If North form coalition with East they win.Even North can't win without going into alliance with at least one of the 3 southern regions that is why Buhari failed 3 times previously.Atiku and Peter Obi got almost 13 million votes against incumbent president in the last election and you say we are inconsequential.It all depend on who the north decides to align with in 2023 election and southwest votes will be rendered useless as usual.

seunmsg:


So, is the north aligning with SE in 2023?

paramakina202:


On the same basis that made Obasanjo candidate of PDP even though he was in prison when PDP was formed.

seunmsg:


Obasanjo contested against Ekwueme and defeated him twice. So, why should SW candidates step down for SE candidates when SE couldn’t do the same for SW in 1999 and 2003?