Nigeria: Is the 8th Senate About Saraki?

opinion

Ever since he used the enormous resources at his disposal to install himself as the Senate President in June 2015, Abubakar Bukola Saraki has become such a big issue in our national politics, particularly the uneasy relations between the Senate and the Presidency. Even after his ascendancy, he made sure that his acolytes emerged as principal officers of the Senate. It took a lot of cajoling and compromise gestures for Saraki to agree to some of the demands of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly clear that Saraki's desperation to become Senate President was, among others, intended to accord him the necessary clout to stave off or negotiate his way out of the many scandals trailing him. Beginning with the untidy manner he became the Senate President, even disdaining his party by facilitating the election of Senator Ike Ekweremadu of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) as his deputy, and his outright refusal to adopt APC's list of other principal officers for the Senate, Saraki is bound to fight on many fronts to sustain his lust for power. Recall that the state has let go its previous challenge of the methodology of his emergence as Senate President.

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