Senate Chief Whip Orji Kalu has Nigerians may not be ready for an Igbo President.
In an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, the former Abia Governor said: “this is not the best time for us” to become President.
Kalu said the people from the southeast “are not the best politicians”.
“This is not the best outing for us. For you to be President of Nigeria, you need other regions. I’m not sure that Nigerians are yet ready for a president of Igbo extraction.
“We have five other regions to be able to come up with votes. We do politics with emotions. I want Igbos to stop doing politics with emotions. I want them to do practical politics that will be able to drive Nigerians if we want to be in the community of the nation. We need to read the temperature of other regions.”
Speaking on the scarcity of naira notes, Kalu said he would have disobeyed the President if he was still a Governor.
“The crunch was very severe. If I was still in the office of a governor, rightly, I would disobey the president and obey the supreme court. So, the president ought to obey the supreme court. The supreme court is the highest court of our land and I don’t accept anybody to disobey them,” he said.