By Johnbosco Agbakwuru & Joseph Erunke

ABUJA— A first class emir that was forced out of his top Federal Government office may have joined the campaign to elect Senator Bukola Saraki as the president of the Senate.

Sources close to the development revealed that the first class emir from the North-West has been leading the Saraki campaign to fellow emirs in the North with a steadfast determination to enthrone the former Kwara State governor as the country’s number three man.

The campaign for Saraki, Vanguard learnt, was partly in appreciation of the large support that he got from Saraki during his ordeal with the Presidency that led to his exit from his high flying office last year.

The recruitment of the emir into the Saraki campaign follows the strategic alliance between Saraki’s major rivals for the office, Senator Ahmad Lawan and George Akume, both of whom forged an alliance last weekend. The alliance, it was gathered, was said to have jolted the Saraki campaign into action.

That move was also against the background of claims by the Lawan camp that they were in control of the majority of senators-elect from the North-West.

It was learnt, weekend, that senators of core northern extraction were being wooed by their emirs at the instance of the first-class revered monarch from the North-West to consider Saraki above Lawan in the contest.

One strategy of the northern emirs, it was gathered, was to woo the senators-elect through their governors.

The emirs, it was gathered, had tried to reach out to their senators-elect through the governors at the retreat that broke out into two last weekend. The retreat organised by the All Progressives Congress, APC, for its senators broke out after supporters of Lawan addressed a press conference to endorse the alliance between Akume and Lawan.

At the end of the retreat, the Saraki camp announced that 35 of the 59 senators-elect in the party were fully committed to their cause.

tolexy007:
k

princeokpara:
C

princeokpara:
C

Meiji:
Why not just mention Muhammadu Sanusi II, make we hear word?

baybeeboi:
saraki has it