Senate Presidency: Igbos Have Themselves To Blame For Voting Atiku — APC

Igbos Have Themselves To Blame For Voting Atiku – APC

The ruling
APC said it does not deserve any blame for not zoning the position of
Senate President or Deputy Senate President to the South-East.

Rather
it said the South-East should blame itself for queuing behind Atiku
Abubakar, presidential candidate of the PDP in the just concluded
general elections.

The party was reacting to the outburst of Orji
Uzor Kalu, who said that unless the APC makes him the Deputy Senate
President of the 9th Senate, he will fight to become the Senate
President.

Yekini Nabena, Deputy National Publicity Secretary of
APC, in a chat with Daily Independent said while nobody is stopping Kalu
from contesting for the position of Senate President, the reality is
that he cannot win since the zoning arrangement didn’t favour him.

According
to him, rather than getting angry with APC leadership, Kalu should
blame his people in the South-East for putting all their eggs in one
basket by rejecting President Muhammadu Buhari and casting over 90
percent of their votes for Atiku.

“That shouldn’t be a problem.
He can contest for the position of Senate President. But the issue is,
can he win? Nobody is stopping him from contesting. Igbo people always
play themselves out. So, Kalu cannot blame APC.

“He should blame
his own people from the South-East. He should blame them because they
don’t know how to play politics. They play politics like a one-way
thing. They all voted for Atiku in the presidential election. So, now
that Atiku lost, who will help people like Orji Kalu? 99.9 percent of
them followed Atiku.

“So, what is Kalu crying for? He should go
back to his people and educate them on how politics is played especially
at the national level. They should play 50-50. If this one didn’t work,
the other can work.

“So, Orji Uzor Kalu must go back to his
people and educate them because he himself is not worthy to be Senate
President or Deputy Senate President. So, if he wants to contest, he can
do so. Nobody is stopping him. But I know that he cannot win”, he said.