On Sunday, the former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, paid a visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at Aso Rock Villa.<\/p>\n
The details or purpose of the meeting was not disclosed. On his social media, he posted , \u201cTonight, I paid a private visit to His Excellency President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his residence.”<\/em><\/p>\n President Tinubu and Senator Kalu have maintained a close bond since they both serves as governors in 1999.<\/p>\n On Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today, in an interview, Senator kalu disclosed his interest for the 2027 presidential election if President Tinubu does not contest for second tenure.<\/p>\n In the month of October, he said, \u201cLet me tell you, first and foremost, I\u2019m qualified to be a President, and I\u2019m competent. We have already a candidate in our political party unless he is not running. If the party gives me the opportunity to fly their flag, it\u2019s a privilege, it\u2019s not something that will I like?<\/em><\/p>\n “It\u2019s an opportunity given by the party. It\u2019s not about me. My interest in 2027 is to come back, be a lawmaker, sit in the Senate and work in the Senate.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Sunday, the former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, paid a visit to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at Aso Rock Villa. The details or purpose of the meeting was not disclosed. On his social media, he posted , \u201cTonight, I paid a private visit to His Excellency President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1906,113,383],"class_list":{"0":"post-17321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-aso-rock-villa","9":"tag-president-tinubu","10":"tag-senator-orji-uzor-kalu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17327,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17321\/revisions\/17327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}