trending:2019 Election: Only Weak Health Can Stop Buhari In 2019 – Kalu

A former governor of Abia State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, has said the only sickness can stop President Muhammadu Buhari from seeking re-election in 2019.

Kalu who spoke with journalists at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, on Sunday night said the president was ready for the task ahead.

He said, “Buhari is an honest man and will tell Nigerians at the right time whether he will seek re-election or not. We pray that his health gets better and that his doctors give him a clean bill of health.

“You know Buhari is also a man of conscience if he feels his health will not allow him to seek re-election he will not go ahead. But, if he feels he capable of running he will seek re-election. It his right, he is entitled to the second term. Even, people that failed in their class can also repeat in either elementary or secondary school.

Buhari is working. The Second Niger Bridge, for instance, is being constructed, so you see that though things are difficult, it could be better.”

Kalu said though people of the South East, had been cheated in many ways, the Buhari administration would provide a window for new a beginning for the Igbo.

He said, “The problem with Nigeria is the inability to build national cohesion, by all stakeholders. We are still talking about tribe where people come from, what people think about their religion.

“We need to impress it on all Nigerians that we need a country where all stakeholders feel a sense of belonging.

Not minding where they come from or where they live, they should feel at home whether, in Ogbomosho, Lagos, Ibadan, Sokoto, Enugu, they should feel at home. The earlier we have that sense of belonging the better for all of us.”

Kalu said it would be the right thing to do to allow the South East take a shot at the presidency in 2023.

“It is the right thing to do, Nigeria is built on a tripod, when you allow the South East to have the Presidency by 2023, that will be the end of the civil war,” he said. lyricsiq.com