I’ll run for deputy senate president – Kalu

Former governor of Abia state and senator-elect on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Dr Orji Uzor Kalu said Monday that he would run for the position of the deputy senate president in the ninth National Assembly.

Kalu said this while fielding questions from State House correspondents after delivering a letter from President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela to President Muhammadu Buhari. 

“I am going to be contesting on the floor of the Senate. I am waiting for the party to zone and if the party continues to hold it, and don’t zone it, I will contest on the floor of the senate,” he said. 

On what his position on the selection of the leadership of the 9th National Assembly was, Kalu said: “I have already endorsed Ahmed Lawan as the Senate president. That is sacrosanct in my mind and I am appealing to the other parties, let us have only one candidate in the Senate instead of going to drag about it. 

“So, we are on course, yesterday(Sunday), when I returned from Venezuela, Ahmed Lawan was with me in the house and I became the 56th APC Senator to endorse him and signed. As I am talking to you now we are having two more people who are in Makka, one senator from Katsina and the other from Lagos. Fifty eight senators are going to be signing in and we have the majority to making him, senate president.”

On what his contribution to the 9th National Assembly will be, the former Abia governor said: “Well, we are going to expect a lot of cooperation between the legislature and the executive and I am sure as most of you know very well, we are going to do bi-partisan support. Not a blind support in any way to the executive but we are going to have a very good working relationship, where we follow the rules of the house and the rules of the executive.”

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