By Emmanuel Aziken, Political Editor; Henry
Umoru, Joseph Erunke, Johnbosco Agbakwuru &
Abiodun Alade
ABUJA— The rumbles from Tuesday’s election of
Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President
continued, yesterday, with opponents and
supporters of the nation’s new number three man
stalking one another in furtherance of upturning
or sustaining the new order.
Senator Saraki was nevertheless conciliatory
towards his antagonists in the ruling All
Progressives Congress, APC, as he dismissed
insinuations of his imminent defection from the
party. His insistence nonetheless, the bad blood
flowing from Saraki’s upset of the APC’s official
nominee for Senate President flowed into the
Senate session, yesterday, as the different camps
in the party squabbled over the legitimacy of the
inauguration. Besides, Senator Oluremi Tinubu,
yesterday, publicly snubbed a handshake from
the Senate President at the swearing-in of 28
senators who missed the oath-taking on Tuesday.
SARAKI’S FIRST PLENARY SESSION: Senate
President Bukola Saraki (M) going in for his first
plenary session as President of Senate yesterday.
Behind him is Deputy Senate President, Ike
Ekweremadu. Photo: NAN.
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in its own
intervention, chided the APC over its threat of
sanctions on the new National Assembly
leadership, saying the ruling party had proved to
all that it was not prepared for governance. www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/war-of-words-in-senate-over-saraki/

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