I Respect Tinubu, I Will Meet Him Soon, Says Saraki

Despite rebelling against the wish of the All

Progressives Congress (APC) for Ahmad Lawan

to be senate president, Bukola Saraki says he

still holds Bola Tinubu, national leader of the

party, in high esteem.

Tinubu was himself opposed to Saraki’s bid to

lead the senate but Saraki defied the directive

of APC to align with Peoples Democratic Party

(PDP) to clinch the country’s number three

position, and both the national assembly and

the APC have known no peace since then.

But speaking to journalists in Abuja on

Saturday, Saraki admitted that he was not in

agreement with Tinubu regarding the leadership

of the assembly, but he said he had reached out

to him in the interest of the progress of the

party and the nation.

“Regards to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; as you all

know, he is one of the leaders of the party. I

have great respect for him. We have worked

closely together before. Unfortunately, my

group did not agree with him on this issue,” he

said.

“However, we are both responsible and

committed to the project of the party and

Nigeria that we will overcome this and move

forward. It is part of our plans, as part of the

healing process, to meet with him and it will

happen soon.”

Saraki noted that out of his respect for the

party and President Muhammadu Buhari, he

dropped his presidential ambition.

He accused some unnamed individuals who

allegedly worked against Buhari’s interest of

trying to create enmity between him and the

president.

“I was the first person that stepped down his

political ambition, once General Buhari

announced that he was going to contest the

presidential election. And since then, prior to

the period of election, I worked tirelessly to

support his emergence,” he said.

“Even some of my friends who are not

supporting me now are doing so because I did

not support them in their presidential ambition

and that I supported President Buhari. That is

why I find it funny that the same people are

now claiming to love Buhari more than me. It is

a very funny world.

“These are people that I was begging to leave

the stage for Buhari to run since all of us are

young. They are now the one going round to

say that Saraki did not like Buhari but time will

tell.”

When asked if he would contest the presidential

election in 2019, Saraki dodged the question in

a diplomatic manner.

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