A founding member of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje has warned that the
worst will happen if the Senate President, Bukola Saraki is removed from office,
as the All Progressives Congress, APC, may “have the PDP taking over the Senate
presidency and deputy.”
The former acting National
Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, made this assertion in an
interview with some journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. He observed
that no other Senate president has suffered “dry, blatant, political tyrannical
and open persecution” as Bukola Saraki, since the return of democracy in 1999.
Baraje further disclosed that
prior to the 2015 general elections, the APC had only three states in the North
Central but “with a dint of hard work, Saraki delivered the zone 100 per cent.”
He added that the APC should be
proud of producing the Senate President, stressing that “The PDP episode with
Tambuwal (former House of Representatives Speaker) is still fresh in history.
The PDP then didn’t throw the baby away with the bath water, knowing fully well
that such move will be counterproductive. It was well managed and Tambuwal
remained the Speaker under the then PDP.
“Our party may loath the ways of
PDP, but out of every bad situation and experience, there are atoms of
goodness, and every visionary leader will separate the chaff from the corn and
take what is good out of it. So, it is not as if the Senate president has gone
against his party.”