ORJI UZOR KALU SHOULDN’T BE REWARDED WITH SENATE PRESIDENCY FOR HIS FAILURES AFTER GIVING HIMSELF 40,000 VOTES AND GIVING TINUBU ONLY 8,000

Abuja – A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Adamu Garba has asserted that Senate Chief Whip and former Abia State Governor, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu does not deserve to be Senate President under the incoming APC Government under Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu because of his failures, especially failing Tinubu during the election.

According to Garba, Senator Kalu “gave himself 40,000 votes but gave President elect Tinubu only 8,000 votes in the elections”.
Recall that both the presidential and senatorial elections were held simultaneously and the APC had severally accused Kalu of Anti party activities and working against Tinubu, prompting him to wrongly display his ballot paper after voting for Tinubu.

Adamu Garba who is supporting Senator Barau Jibrin from the Northwest for the position made the remark in an interview in TVC.

When asked about his opinion on zoning of the Senate presidency to either the Southeast or South-South for balancing?

Adamu Garba said, “frankly speaking, I think we should pay attention to competence and performance than zoning when it comes to our calibration of political power in Nigeria now.

Let’s look at the argument about the Southeast and the South-South when it is zoned. When you go back to the Southeast for instance, we have some aspirants who came out. Most eminently among them is Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, a gentleman. Similarly when you go back to the South-South, we also have Senator Akpabio, also a gentleman.”

“All of them are proud APC members, we are proud of them and there is nothing bad we can say against them. But then let’s look at their performances in the outcome of the last election, Orji Uzor Kalu succeeded by coming back to the Senate by getting over 40,000 votes. Now what is the votes of the president elect in his zone where he was able to win to come back to the Senate? It’s like 8000 votes.

So when you can give yourself over 40,000 votes and give the president elect 8000 votes on the same time, same day of the election with the same people, then it signifies rejection. And we should not take rejection in politics as something we have to conceal, just by giving more reward to someone who failed. When you reward somebody who failed you are incentivising failure. And the APC with Asiwaju administration, I don’t think this is the drive. There is no way failure can be incentivised.”