2019. I AM CONSULTING AND CONSIDERING RUNNING AGAINST BURHARI-SARAKI

Bukola Saraki

Senate President Bukola Saraki has told Bloomberg that he is considering running against President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 general elections.

“I am consulting and actively considering it. I believe I can make the change,” Bloomberg quoted Saraki as saying in an interview conducted on Tuesday in Abuja.

The Senate President defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and will be seeking to actualise his ambition on the new platform.

He however feared that government may use security to rig the elections, speaking against the backdrop of recent blockade of the National Assembly by security operatives.

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Police Invitation is a Mere Political Game, Says Saraki

Saraki

Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has stated that the invitation to him by the Police to report to a station in Guzape over the Offa robbery investigation is a mere afterthought which is designed to achieve political purpose.

Saraki in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, stated that he has it on good authority that the Police had already decided on the suspects to arraign in court in Ilorin, Kwara State on Wednesday based on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Mohammed U.E. and that the turn around to invite him was a ploy aimed at scoring cheap political points.

" I have been reliably informed that the police invitation was planned by IG as a ploy to stop an alleged plan by some Senators and House of Representatives members from defecting from the All Progressives Congress (APC). It was also said that if I was detained between Tuesday and Wednesday, that will abort the so-called defection plan.

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