The All Progressives Congress, APC, has been warned to forget producing another Senate President if Bukola Saraki is removed from office.
Saraki is battling with his party, which wants him out because of the way he got the position. He is presently standing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, for alleged false declaration of assets while he was the governor of Kwara State.
Speaking in an interview on Wednesday, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta, Peter Nwaboshi, threatened that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will take over the Senate Presidency from the APC if Saraki is eventually booted out.
Nwaboshi said Saraki’s trial at the CCT is a blackmail.
“I was the first to address the press in Port Harcourt and I told them that Saraki was going to win the Senate Presidency and I gave them my reasons.
“Eventually, we went there, he won. If, but God forbids, because we don’t see it coming, by chance Saraki is removed; I can tell you that the PDP will produce the next Senate President.
“We only need three and we have it. The calculation is very clear to me. The calculation is very clear for the PDP.
“We know what it will take us. When I told them that Saraki was going to win, I did a lot of mathematical calculations based on the facts on the ground and it is even clearer to me now that the PDP will win it. We will win it.
“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 the APC. We will win and that will be very interesting. I can tell you with what’s on the ground that we will produce the next Senate President,” the lawmaker said.
It would be recalled that Saraki emerged as the Senate President after he allianced with the PDP Senators in June 2015 when the Senate was inaugurated.
At the moment, the APC has 58, PDP 44 and LP has a Senator in the person of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege of Delta Central. The reruns for six Senatorial Districts are being conducted.
