Ohanaeze Ndigbo has pleaded with Senators Orji Uzo Kalu, Osita Izunaso to step down for Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, as the Senate President.
The group, in an issued press statement yesterday, by its spokesman, Okechukwu Isiguzoro, said that there should be collaborative measures to ensure that the South-Eastregion gets the position of the President of the Senate in the 10th Assembly.
Ndigbo will continue to prevail upon our distinguished Senators to put forward our collective survival as a nation and other national considerations above all personal or primordial presumptions and allow the right things to be carried out, so that there will be healing in the land and uniting the country will speed up the emergence of South-easterner as the President of the Senate in the 10th Assembly.
Ndigbo unanimously urges other contestants from the southeast and other geopolitical zones to allow the political leader of the southeast and the chairman of the South-East Governors Forum, Engr. Dave Umahi to enjoy all the privileges of amending the Senate standing rules and doctrine of necessity for him to emerge as the President of the Senate.
We are confident that in a special consideration Senators-elects will ponder in their wisdom and understanding, and will allow Governor Umahi, whose unassuming disposition and track record of accomplishments will assist the APC leadership and President-Elect, Senator Bola Tinubu, to curb the activities of Biafra agitators and other secessionist commanders, make obedient core supporters have a rethink and reintegrate Southeast back to the mainstream and douse the political tension in the land.
Governor Umahi is the best candidate for the position of the Senate President; and in the interest of the President-Elect and APC, there should be a concession given to the southeast for the interest of the country.
Ndigbo begs Senator Orji Uzor Kalu and Izunaso to drop their ambitions and rally support for Governor David Umahi, as actions are on top gear to bring other senators from other zones, especially the North, to support him for National peace and Unity, the statement added.
