By Charles Adingunpu
As build up to the Senate President ahead the tenth session of the National Assembly gather momentum, one of the leading contenders, currently Chief Whip, representing Abia North, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has resumed as student of the prestigious Harvard Business School to further enhance his administrative skills, preparatory to occupy the exulted seat as the third most powerful man in Nigeria.
The battle for the Senate President gets fiercely every day as new entrants into the race claimed to have enough capacity, competence and credibility to occupy the exulted seat.
Hence, Orji Kalu second missionary journey to the Havard Business School in the United States of America, USA was to further sharpen his administrative skills.
The former Abia Governor who made this disclosure shortly upon his arrival at the school said, ” my first academic exercise in the Havard University was in 1997 when I was first admitted into the Havard Business School for studies.
“During the programme, I gained a lot of insight with a satisfactory exposure to the business and world economy.
“Today, I’m glad to return to my Alma mata, Havard Business School. I’m to be taken on a course, “succeeding as a strategic CFO.
“To ensure that I’m best equipped to take advantage of this unique learning opportunity, I have prepared cases in advance of the programme. I’m confident that the addition to the stock of my knowledge from this exercise, will improve my service delivery to my constituents and Nigeria at large,” he said.
It would be recalled that Senator Kalu had earlier declared that it was his turn to be the Senate President in the emerging 10th Assembly even as his fellow Kinsman, outgoing Ebonyi State Governor, now an elected Senator in just concluded general elections, Dave Umahi from the South East, was reported to be nursing the ambition of becoming the next Senate President.
During one of his recent visits to President Mahmoudu Buhari at the Aso Rock villa, Dave Umahi was reported to be urging the President that the seat of the Senate President should be exclusively preserved for the South Easterners.
Umahi said that that would be the only way the Igbos will have a sense of inclusiveness in the next government.
Though under the current arrangement in the emerging Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, it would be appropriate to ceed the Senate President to the South East if the quest of the President Elect to form an all inclusive government would make any appreciable meaning.
