Saraki In Big Move To Shock APC …Backing Ex-Governor As New Senate President

A plot by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to influence the emergence of a new Senate leadership, when the 9th Senate is inaugurated in June has unsettled the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The plan, being championed by the current Senate President, Bukola Saraki, said to be working on a fall-back position, having lost his reelection bid for the Kwara Central senatorial seat, is aimed at installing a former governor of Gombe State, Senator Danjuma Goje as next Senate President.
Senator Goje hails from the North-East, but the party’s leadership is yet to decide on which zone will produce the president of the 9th Senate, which is most likely the North East.

The National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC, which is said to have been unsettled by the plot, is to meet to decide not only the Senate leadership, but on other positions in the National Assembly.

Besides the APC leadership, the plot is also said to have unsettled members of the APC caucus in the Senate as well as incoming senators. However, the various organs of the party are said to have been activated to counter the Saraki group. An APC Senator-elect from the South-West, who confirmed the plot, said: “Yes, they want to use Goje to repeat the APC/PDP experience of 2015.”