Reports say Senators are
holding meetings to get a suitable replacement for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, if he is indicted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal.
According to Vanguard Newspapers, members of the Senate Unity Forum (SUF) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) leadership met to consider possible replacements for the
Senate President.
Vanguard also reports that Senator George Akume, from Benue (North-Central), Senator Barnabas Gemade (Benue), and Senator Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa State), are the three top
considerations.
A source who spoke to
Vanguard said “subterranean and nocturnal
moves by the PDP Senators to upstage us by backing one of them to take over the
office of the Senate President, if Saraki goes. We are not unaware of a series
of meetings by PDP elements in the Senate since Saraki’s trial began, some of
the meetings in the dead of the night.”
Adding that “Those of us in the APC, as the
majority party in the Senate cannot sit idly by and allow a minority party in
the Senate to take over a position that rightly belongs to us as a party. I can
assure you that it is going to be a titanic battle on the floor of the Senate
if Saraki goes. What happened on June 9 cannot be allowed to repeat itself no
matter how strong the PDP caucus feels it is.”
“We have
already launched out to position Akume, Gemade and Adamu as our possible
choices just in case the need arises to replace Saraki at the instance of CCT
ruling,” the
source said
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