According to Sahara Reporters, Bukola Saraki deceived President
Muhammadu Buhari so he could be elected senate president.
Sahara Reporters say the elected senate president made
Buhari and others to believe that he was open to a peace talk while seriously
negotiating with PDP senators.
A source at the Presidency told SaharaReporters that
Senator Bukola Saraki misled President Muhammad Buhari into believing that he
was welcome to help broker a solution to a crisis rocking the All Progressives
Congress (APC) over the choice of the party’s candidates for top legislative
posts in the National Assembly, including President of the Senate and Speaker
of the House of Representatives. The APC had chosen Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan and
Femi Gbajabiamila as their candidates for the Senate Presidency and Speaker
slots respectively.
But in a stunning development, Mr. Saraki was this morning
elected as President of the Senate after garnering the block support of the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some APC senators who broke rank with their
party. In a similar vein, PDP members of the House of Representatives threw
their block votes behind Yakubu Dogara, selecting him as Speaker over the
APC-endorsed Gbajabiamila.
Our Presidency source accused Mr. Saraki, who had earlier
shunned a meeting with Vice Present Yemi Osibanjo, of inviting President Buhari
to intervene in the widening internal schism within the APC. In refusing to
attend an earlier peace meeting with the vice president, Mr. Saraki had
reportedly fumed that he could not be summoned to a meeting by a mere
commissioner, a comment he later denied making.
Soon after Mr. Buhari arrived in Abuja early on Tuesday, he
invited all APC legislators to a meeting with him at the International
Conference Center at 9 a.m. “Senator Saraki assured the president that he would
attend the meeting,” said our source.
According to the source, Mr. Saraki instead “held a marathon
meeting with members of the People Democratic Party to cement their support for
him.”
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