Senators Shops For Saraki's Successor
Category: Nigerian National News
According to a report by Punch, members of both the SUF and pro-Saraki senators under the aegis of
Like Minds Senators had started making contacts on how to agree on an
acceptable candidate to succeed Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
The Code of Conduct Bureau is prosecuting Saraki for alleged false
declaration of his assets. Virtually all legal and political steps taken
to stop Saraki’s trial by the Danladi Umar-led trial appeared to have
hit the rocks.
Some senators were said to have
agreed that the Deputy Senate President, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, would not
be affected by the change as he would be allowed to continue in office.
“However, senators from the
anti-Saraki’s SUF group were advocating the change of the principal
officers to reflect the position of the leadership of APC,” one of those
privy to the plan had told SUNDAY PUNCH.
If the SUF members should have their
way, the implication is that Lawan would take over from Sen. Ali Ndume
as Senate Leader, while Sen. Bala Ibn N’Allah might lose his Deputy
Leader seat to Sen. George Akume, who has not been attending activities
in the Senate for some time. The newcomer from Edo State, Sen. Francis
Alimikhena, might also be asked to vacate his seat as Deputy Whip for
Sen. Abu Ibrahim.
It is still not clear how the issue of
principal officers would be resolved but one of the Like Minds Senators
said Saraki’s successor might come from his state or from the
neighbouring Nasarawa State.
He said, “Both the SUF and Like Minds
Senators had agreed to support the emergence of somebody from the
North-Central geopolitical zone, a Muslim, who will be a bridge builder
and acceptable to every senator.”
He also said the Saraki loyalists, who
were in the majority at the upper chamber, had insisted that his
successor must also be a member of the ‘New PDP’, a breakaway faction of
the PDP which joined the APC at its formation.
The lawmaker said, “This issue had gone
beyond SUF or LMS. We are coming together as one to ensure a rancour
free arrangement that would lead to the emergence of a new senate
president. Most of the people that we have consulted agreed that another
senator from Kwara North should take over the mantle of leadership.
“It has been agreed that with this, the
people of Kwara would not feel too bad, while the current arrangement in
the red chamber will remain as it is. ”
Close watchers of the development at the
senate were of the opinion that the resumption of Saraki’s trial at the
CCT this week will obviously shape the nation’s political history.
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