Senate Chief Whip, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu (Abia, APC), has thumped up the All Progressives Congress APC presidential candidate Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu for withdrawing from Arise TV organised Town Hall meetings where presidential candidates in the 2023 elections meet to debate.
Kalu, in the evening of Thursday, expressed his support for Tinubu’s withdrawal on his Facebook page, praising Tinubu for even responding to the TV station.
The APC presidential candidate, with his Peoples Democratic Party PDP counterpart Atiku Abubakar, severally failed to attend Arise TV Town Hall meetings co-sponsored with the Centre for Democracy and Development.
According to Kalu, “Tinubu is even wise to be responding to them. If I were the one, I wouldn’t answer them. I would shut up my mouth and not talk to any of them.
The Abia North Senator supports Tinubu’s approach of meeting with people rather than attending the debates. He said “Rather, I would go to the people that will vote.
He criticised Nigerian journalists, saying they have “have turned the media into an avenue for insulting politicians.
Kalu is, however, the publisher of two national newspapers, namely The SUN and NEW TELEGRAPH.
“I get angry when I see people insulting me or even other politicians because I am an employer of labour.
“I am a politician with income. You don’t make me what you think I should be. I should be me, and I’m comfortable being me. Because I am a politician, you want me to eat sand instead of rice?”
