Orji Kalu writes senators-elect, APC NWC as party picks Akpabio for Senate President

Kalu said he is bringing to the table for consideration as head of the Senate his wisdom and experience “garnered over the years in the management of human and material resources.”

By Jeffrey Agbo

Senator Orji Kalu has written to the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC and 108 senators-elect to inform them of his ambition to become the next Senate President.

His letter preceded the party’s decision to nominate Godswill Akpabio and Abass Tajudeen as the next Senate President and House of Representatives’ Speaker respectively in the upcoming 10th National Assembly.

The party also nominated Senator Barau Jubrin from Kano as Deputy Senate President and Ben Kalu as Deputy Speaker.

In the letter made public by his media office on Monday, Kalu said, “It is with a deep sense of joy and humility that I bring you warm greetings and that of Abia North Senatorial zone.

“My emergence as the Senator to represent Abia North in this critical time in the history of our dear nation comes with huge responsibilities, top of which is to make quality laws for the good governance of our people.

“To be able to achieve these enviable goals, we require good leaders who will pilot the affairs of the 10th Senate.

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“Leadership of a sophisticated Senate at the 10th Session will need men and women with abundance of shared vision, consensus building, charisma, credibility, and pragmatism in the saddle.

“This is why I most humbly write to officially inform you of my interest to be elected the next Senate President.

“I make this offer to serve you and the Nigerian people with sincerity of heart, humility, and candour.”

Kalu said he is bringing to the table for consideration as head of the Senate his wisdom and experience “garnered over the years in the management of human and material resources.”

“I promise to work for you, promote and defend the constitution and the party, and foster a congenial and cordial relationship between the party, the executive and judiciary.

“One thing is indubitably certain: working together in unity and mutual love and respect, we can take Nigeria to real next level of peace, progress, and development,” he added.