Kalu opens up on 2023 presidential ambition

Former Governor of Abia state and incumbent Senate’s Chief Whip, Orji Uzor Kalu, has opened up on his 2023 presidential ambition.

While answering questions during an interview on Channels Television’s program, Kalu said, “I am not having that kind of ambition but if I am given, why not? I can take it. The problem is who is capable of doing the job. For now, I am focusing on my constituency; there are a lot of jobs to be done.

“If you give me the opportunity, I will like to go back to the Senate for a second term, but if the people of Nigeria want me to be president, they will show their hand. I can do the job. I can build a 20th-century economy for our people.”

Reports had also been rife on some prophetic predictions regarding the emergence of the lawmaker as the next president of Nigeria.

In response to this, Kalu said, “I am a Catholic. In the Catholic Church, we don’t see visions. Well, if visions are being seen, and people say this and that if it is the will of God that I will become president, why not? I am very capable mentally and otherwise to do whatever Nigerian people want me to do but not through prophecy.”