Senate President: Bukola Saraki Is Winning, See His Strategy

It looks like Senator Bukola Saraki is still a master strategist. George Akume was meeting with leaders who are not members of the Senate, Saraki is meeting the right men, Senators who will vote for him.

To this end, PDP Governors-elect on Tuesday night attended a serious meeting held by some of their APC counterparts rooting for the emergence Saraki as Senate President ahead of Akume and Lawan.

The meeting which held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja had 65 senators-elect in attendance.

A source who attended the meeting listed Godswill Akpabio, Theodore Orji and Sam Egwu among the PDP senators-elect that were in attendance.

Our source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said some of the PDP senators-elect were backing Saraki because it appeared that the APC leaders were in support of Ahmad Lawan.

The source said, “For now, the PDP has not endorsed any candidate but some of us are in support of Saraki because the APC leaders appear to be supporting Lawan.”

A senator-elect from Kogi State, Dino Melaye, confirmed to journalists on Wednesday that some PDP senators-elect attended the meeting by Saraki supporters.

Melaye said that the PDP and the APC senators had already confirmed their endorsement of Saraki.

According to him, the meeting was attended by many PDP and APC Senators, including Sabo Nakudu, Mohammed Gobil, Ali Ndume, Danjuma Goje, Binta Garba, Ubah, Shehu Sani and Aliyu Wamakko,

He said, “The meeting was a mixture of PDP and APC senators. Forty APC and 25 PDP senators were in attendance. We resolved that we have to produce a senator that is made by senators. Eighty per cent of senators from Lawan’s North-East attended the meeting and endorsed Saraki.”

Besides Saraki (North-Central) and Lawan (North-East), George Akume (Benue) is also contesting the senate presidency.

But APC has yet to zone the position and others, including the speakership of the House of Reps.

Although it was gathered that some members of the APC caucus in the North-West, who were earlier reported to have endorsed Lawan had started supporting Saraki.