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10th NASS: Group drums support for Kalu for Senate President, goes spiritual 

        BY TOBY CHUKS / AWKA
As battle for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly rages on, a group known as “Orji Uzor Kalu (OUK) Grassroots Movement of Nigeria” says it has declared a marathon prayer asking God to make Senator Orji Uzor Kalu emerges as President of the Senate, May 29, this year.
In a statement, yesterday, the Convener and national leader of the OUK, Alhaji Muritala Mohammed, explained, “the group decided to go spiritual because it is an act of injustice to deny the Southeast zone the chance to produce the next Senate President of Nigeria considering the fact that the Southeast is yet to produce the President or Vice President since the return of democracy in Nigeria in 1999”
Mohammad, fondly called 10 :10 by his admirers noted, “Indications are ripe that Senator Kalu, a former governor of Abia State and the current Chief Whip of the Senate will face former governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio in an election to decide who becomes the next Senate President during the inauguration of the 10th Senate of the National Assembly in Abuja on 13th June 2023”
According to him, “the prayer involves both Muslims and Christians way of prayer. Members of the group who are spiritually inclined are conducting the prayer in Mosques and Churches. Muslims will conduct their prayer on Friday this week (tomorrow) and subsequent Fridays, while Christians will conduct the prayer in the respective Churches on Sundays.”
“There shall be a Special Prayer for the emergence of Distinguished Senator Orji Uzor Kalu as the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria @ Tijaniya Central Mosque in Maraba on Friday immediately after Juma’at prayer, come, one come all”, the statement read.

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Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively. He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.
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Jude Ossai (JP) a veteran journalist is a National Diploma holder in Mass Communication from Ogwashi-Uku Polytechnic Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State. He also studied at Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) Enugu and Imo State University, Owerri for his first and second degrees in Mass Communication, respectively. He writes extensively on politics, crime, corruption, climate change, healthcare, human rights, social justice, among others.
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