BREAKING: 2023: Orji Kalu Withdraws From Presidential Race, Gives Reason

Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, the Chief Whip of the House of Senate, has announced his withdrawal from the presidential election in 2023.

In a statement signed on Monday, the lawmaker, who ran on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, declared as much.

He added that his decision was based on the two major political parties’ incapacity to zone their ticket for justice and fairness to the South East.

The former governor of Abia State has announced that he will run for the Abia North Senatorial Zone in the upcoming general elections in 2023.

Kalu called on his supporters across the nation to the Senate President, Senator Ahmad Lawan who joined the presidential race on Monday.

The statement reads partly, “Since there is no zoning and the contest is open to all Nigerians , I officially withdraw from presidential contest in 2023. I have also picked ticket to run for Abia North Senatorial zone and to complete the good work I started in Abia North .

“I urge all my friends , allies and supporters in the APC to toe the line of justice by supporting Senator Ahmad Lawan , a North Easterner for the presidential ticket of the APC”.