A Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) Senator and chairman of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Affairs, Peter Nwaboshi has boasted that his party would replace Bukola Saraki as Senate President if members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) succeeded in their plans to ease him out of office.
Political watchers had posited that, some APC members were determined to punish Senator Bukola Saraki, who defied the party’s directive to step down for another party member as the senate president, but rather went through the back door to win the seat.
They averred that Bukola Saraki’s ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal might have provided a window for them to unseat him.
Meanwhile Nwaboshi boasted, the PDP was ready to replicate the current system in the United States (U.S.) where the Republican Party was in charge of the parliament, while the Democrats controls executive.
He said, “Well, I wish All Progressives Congress (APC) the best of luck if they are making that wild goose chase, but I want you to mark what I’m saying, I was the first to address the press in Port Harcourt and I told them that Saraki was going to win the Senate Presidency, I gave them my reasons. Then, nobody ever thought that Saraki was going to win. People were saying that APC had decided. But it was clear to me that he was going to win and I had to address the press.”
Adding that,“If anybody is thinking that a PDP man is going to vote against a PDP candidate, he is telling you a lie. We have people and we know how to get the people from APC. We will win and that will be very interesting. What is happening in America is going to happen in Nigeria. America has a Republican Senate but the executive is led by Democrats. So, it’s happening in different parts of the world. I can tell you with what’s on the ground that we will produce the next Senate President.”
“The man (Saraki) is going to court and he is obeying the court order. Until it is proven that he is guilty, no amount of blackmail will make us shift our ground and our support for him. In any case, my party, the PDP, we have resolved in our meeting to support him. So, there is no basis for him to resign,” Nwaboshi concluded.
