The number and caliber of presidential aspirants from the South East geopolitical zone is a strong indication that the zone isn’t about to stop agitating to take its turn and produce the president of Nigeria and stick its head into the fabrics of national politics. Since 1999, the zone has always lined out to consult, lobby and build bridges to actualize that desire.
If the zone fails in its presidential dream in 2023, it won’t be for lack of trying. It will only confirm that the South East doesn’t have the right structures in place to translate its sentiments into concrete a pursuit. What is immediately evident here is that the South East is not in “mainstream” politics. And Kalu’s claim that, “I am doing my best to reintegrate them…” begs for a re-examination in the light of how the politics of the zone can one day produce the president of Nigeria.
Apart from his tenure as Governor, Kalu’s shiniest moment might be as the founder of the Progressives People’s Alliance , which by 2007 controlled two states – Imo and Abia – at par with the People’s Democratic Party in the zone. The party was very successful, even having a few seats in the National Assembly.
At the time PPA had Imo and Abia, Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu was in Lagos midwifing the metamorphosis of today’s APC and consolidating the party’s hold in the South West. While Orji failed to win territories with PPA, Tinubu succeeded in shielding South West behind APC. While Tinubu came to the negotiating table with APC and placed the South West in mainstream politics, Orji today has a seat in the Senate on Tinubu’s APC.
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