Uzor Orji Kalu, the senator representing Abia north, says he is not well disposed to the coalition talks by the opposition parties to unseat President Bola Tinubu in 2027.
Speaking when he visited Alex Otti, governor of Abia, Kalu said his deal is for the president and Otti to support each other.
Otti is the only governor elected on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections.
“I’m not into coalition talks… My deal is for Tinubu and Otti to support each other,” the former Abia governor said.
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Kalu also spoke of his relationship with Nasir El-Rufai, former governor of Kaduna, describing him as a “personal friend and brother”.
“El-Rufai is my personal friend and brother, so their condition is what I do not understand. What I understand is that APC is on course, and I have many triggers to pull out,” he said.
“Otti doesn’t have a problem with me. I don’t want to talk of a coalition; I talk about Otti supporting Tinubu and Tinubu supporting Otti. That is my deal.”
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On April 16, el-Rufai left the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Social Democratic Party (SDP), noting that the Tinubu administration is the “worst and most corrupt” in Nigeria’s history.
He also described the government as the most intolerant since Nigeria returned to civil rule in 1999.
“This is the worst federal government in Nigerian history, and all the indices have shown it,” el-Rufai had said in Katsina.
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