Baseless accusation.
While it's not impossible dat Tinubu may be nursing presidential ambition (as politicians r unpredictable, esp naija politicians), saying som1 is having a desperate ambition shudn't be heard frm Saraki, chiefest of desperados.
Buh wot do I know

All of you.... una be same same.... We want new people in this government abeg...

0balufonlll:
x

Everyone knows power is coming back to the Southwest in 2023 then back up north after 8 years then back to Southwest & the cycle goes on.

Your head dey there my man.




It will be trending in circles

I admire Saraki's comportment in this trying times ... His responses so far is laced with sophistication , devoid of gutter language

I don't like tinubu but I will prefer him 100 times over saraki

oya now

seuncyber:
We are not one in this country


Abeg make we divide



I don tire

After you succeeded in booking space with the letter k , you came up with this dry comment?

ridwanomooba:
The Tinubu Rhetoric: My Response, by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki

I have always restrained from joining issues in the media with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and this is based on my respect for him. However, I will not allow him to create a wrong, false and mischievous impression about the reasons for my decision to exit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and present his prejudice as facts for public consumption.

I have been consistent in my complaints to all leaders of the APC, including Tinubu, that a situation where the National Assembly is not constructively engaged or carried along in key policy decisions, particularly those that will eventually require legislative approval, is not in the best interest of the nation. No genuine leader of the legislature will be comfortable that the Presidency will simply write a terse letter to the National Assembly on key issues which the federal legislature is expected to later deliberate upon and give its approval. The Buhari administration consistently treats the legislature with contempt and acts as if the lawmaking body should be an appendage of the Executive. To me, this is unacceptable.

In the same way, I find it very objectionable that many stakeholders who worked strenuously to get the administration into office have now been excluded in the government and not consulted on key decisions as necessary and expected. In fact, some of them are treated as pariahs. A party that ignores justice, equity and inclusion as basic pre-conditions for peace, unity and stability cannot sustain its membership and leadership.

Let me redirect the attention of the former Governor of Lagos State to the aspect of my July 31, 2018, statement announcing my exit from APC in which I emphasized that the decision "has been inescapably imposed on me by certain elements and forces within the APC who have ensured that the minimum conditions for peace, cooperation, inclusion and a general sense of belonging did not exist".

In that statement, I further noted that those APC elements "have done everything to ensure that the basic rules of party administration, which should promote harmonious relations among the various elements within the party were blatantly disregarded. All governance principles which were required for a healthy functioning of the party and the government were deliberately violated or undermined. And all entreaties for justice, equity and fairness as basic precondition for peace and unity, not only within the party, but also the country at large, were simply ignored, or employed as additional pretext for further exclusion. The experience of my people and associates in the past three years is that they have suffered alienation and have been treated as outsiders in their own party. Thus, many have become disaffected and disenchanted. At the same time, opportunities to seek redress and correct these anomalies were deliberately blocked as a government-within-a-government had formed an impregnable wall and left in the cold, everyone else who was not recognized as “one of us”. This is why my people, like all self-respecting people would do, decided to seek accommodation elsewhere".

Tinubu himself will recall that during the various meetings he had with me at the time he was pursuing reconciliation within the APC, I raised all the above issues. I can also vividly recall that he himself always expressed his displeasure with the style of the government and also mentioned that he had equally suffered disrespect from the same government which we all worked to put in office. I also made the point that whatever travails I have gone through in the last three years belong to the past and will not shape my decisions now and in the future.

However, during those meetings, the point of disagreement between Tinubu and I is that while I expressed my worries that there is nothing on ground to assure me that the administrative style and attitude would change in the next four years in a manner that will enable us to deliver the positive changes we promised to our people, he (Tinubu) expressed a strong opinion that he would rather 'support a Buhari on the hospital stretcher' to get a second term because in 2023, power will shift to the South-west. This viewpoint of Tinubu’s was not only expressed to me but to several of my colleagues. So much for acting in national interest.


It is clear that while my own decision is based on protecting the collective national interest, Tinubu will rather live with the identified inadequacies of the government for the sake of fulfilling and preserving his presidential ambition in 2023. This new position of Tinubu has only demonstrated inconsistency — particularly when one reviews his antecedents over the years.


Again, let me reiterate my position that my uncertain and complex relationship with Tinubu has been continually defined by the event of 2014 when myself and other leaders of the APC opposed the Muslim-Muslim ticket arrangement about to be foisted on the APC for the 2015 polls. It should be noted that he has not forgotten the fact that I took the bull by the horns and told him that in the interest of the country, he should accept the need for the party to present a balanced ticket for the 2015 General Elections in terms of religion and geo-political zones. Since that time he has been very active; plotting at every point to undermine me, both within and outside the National Assembly.

It is a surprise to me that Asiwaju Tinubu is still peddling the falsehood about the fact that my defection is about automatic ticket and sharing of resources. Members of the public will recall that when the issue of my decision to quit APC came to the fore and many APC leaders were holding meetings with me, a newspaper owned by the same Tinubu published a false report about the promise of automatic tickets, oil blocks and other benefits. I immediately rebutted their claims and categorically stated that I never discussed any such personal and pecuniary benefits with anybody. My challenge that anybody who has contrary facts should come forward with them still remains open.

It should be known that Democracy is a system that allows people to freely make their choices. It is my choice that I have decided to join others to present a viable alternative platform for Nigerians in the coming elections. Tinubu and leaders of the APC had better respect this decision or lawfully deal with it. As for me, Allah gives power to whom He wishes. Human beings can only aspire and strive to fulfill their aspirations.

Signed:

Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, CON
President of the Senate

But we know these
"Somebody is mocking Oshomiole who started as a factory worker to attained & achieved greater heights?. But pls who is he in the first place??
--- A common thief who was trained abroad with tax payers money returned to Nigeria with dual citizenship .
----Claimed to be a Medical Doctor with untraceable & unspecific discipline in the Medical Line. Was Manager of a Bank who later defrauded people of their hard earned money.
----Father brought him to Political limelight. Greediness, over ambitiousness, and desperation led him to betrayed Father who later died with that soar in his heart.
----Pocketed Kwara state for more than a decade. Uses Kwara state Government money to run and pursued his Political career till date..
---And still have mouth to mocked a humble beginner and true Son of his Father like Oshiomole who started from nothing to something??
BUKOLA SARAKI lacks iota of Shame!!

ridwanomooba:
The Tinubu Rhetoric: My Response, by Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki

I have always restrained from joining issues in the media with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and this is based on my respect for him. However, I will not allow him to create a wrong, false and mischievous impression about the reasons for my decision to exit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and present his prejudice as facts for public consumption.

I have been consistent in my complaints to all leaders of the APC, including Tinubu, that a situation where the National Assembly is not constructively engaged or carried along in key policy decisions, particularly those that will eventually require legislative approval, is not in the best interest of the nation. No genuine leader of the legislature will be comfortable that the Presidency will simply write a terse letter to the National Assembly on key issues which the federal legislature is expected to later deliberate upon and give its approval. The Buhari administration consistently treats the legislature with contempt and acts as if the lawmaking body should be an appendage of the Executive. To me, this is unacceptable.

In the same way, I find it very objectionable that many stakeholders who worked strenuously to get the administration into office have now been excluded in the government and not consulted on key decisions as necessary and expected. In fact, some of them are treated as pariahs. A party that ignores justice, equity and inclusion as basic pre-conditions for peace, unity and stability cannot sustain its membership and leadership.

Let me redirect the attention of the former Governor of Lagos State to the aspect of my July 31, 2018, statement announcing my exit from APC in which I emphasized that the decision "has been inescapably imposed on me by certain elements and forces within the APC who have ensured that the minimum conditions for peace, cooperation, inclusion and a general sense of belonging did not exist".

In that statement, I further noted that those APC elements "have done everything to ensure that the basic rules of party administration, which should promote harmonious relations among the various elements within the party were blatantly disregarded. All governance principles which were required for a healthy functioning of the party and the government were deliberately violated or undermined. And all entreaties for justice, equity and fairness as basic precondition for peace and unity, not only within the party, but also the country at large, were simply ignored, or employed as additional pretext for further exclusion. The experience of my people and associates in the past three years is that they have suffered alienation and have been treated as outsiders in their own party. Thus, many have become disaffected and disenchanted. At the same time, opportunities to seek redress and correct these anomalies were deliberately blocked as a government-within-a-government had formed an impregnable wall and left in the cold, everyone else who was not recognized as “one of us”. This is why my people, like all self-respecting people would do, decided to seek accommodation elsewhere".

Tinubu himself will recall that during the various meetings he had with me at the time he was pursuing reconciliation within the APC, I raised all the above issues. I can also vividly recall that he himself always expressed his displeasure with the style of the government and also mentioned that he had equally suffered disrespect from the same government which we all worked to put in office. I also made the point that whatever travails I have gone through in the last three years belong to the past and will not shape my decisions now and in the future.

However, during those meetings, the point of disagreement between Tinubu and I is that while I expressed my worries that there is nothing on ground to assure me that the administrative style and attitude would change in the next four years in a manner that will enable us to deliver the positive changes we promised to our people, he (Tinubu) expressed a strong opinion that he would rather 'support a Buhari on the hospital stretcher' to get a second term because in 2023, power will shift to the South-west. This viewpoint of Tinubu’s was not only expressed to me but to several of my colleagues. So much for acting in national interest.


It is clear that while my own decision is based on protecting the collective national interest, Tinubu will rather live with the identified inadequacies of the government for the sake of fulfilling and preserving his presidential ambition in 2023. This new position of Tinubu has only demonstrated inconsistency — particularly when one reviews his antecedents over the years.


[i]Again, let me reiterate my position that my uncertain and complex relationship with Tinubu has been continually defined by the event of 2014 when myself and other leaders of the APC opposed the Muslim-Muslim ticket arrangement about to be foisted on the APC for the 2015 polls. It should be noted that he has not forgotten the fact that I took the bull by the horns [/i]and told him that in the interest of the country, he should accept the need for the party to present a balanced ticket for the 2015 General Elections in terms of religion and geo-political zones. Since that time he has been very active; plotting at every point to undermine me, both within and outside the National Assembly.

It is a surprise to me that Asiwaju Tinubu is still peddling the falsehood about the fact that my defection is about automatic ticket and sharing of resources. Members of the public will recall that when the issue of my decision to quit APC came to the fore and many APC leaders were holding meetings with me, a newspaper owned by the same Tinubu published a false report about the promise of automatic tickets, oil blocks and other benefits. I immediately rebutted their claims and categorically stated that I never discussed any such personal and pecuniary benefits with anybody. My challenge that anybody who has contrary facts should come forward with them still remains open.

It should be known that Democracy is a system that allows people to freely make their choices. It is my choice that I have decided to join others to present a viable alternative platform for Nigerians in the coming elections. Tinubu and leaders of the APC had better respect this decision or lawfully deal with it. As for me, Allah gives power to whom He wishes. Human beings can only aspire and strive to fulfill their aspirations.

Signed:

Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, CON
President of the Senate

Not only tinubu even myself and my family. So try to join that headache.

They some flat heads will also support your stupidity even when that stupidity is obvious

Hehehehehe,politicians well I'm more concerned about the senate reconvening......

Igbo don't know how to play politics,.

I STAND WITH BOLA TINUBU.

That ugly frog eyed baboon called tinubu will soon meet his Waterloo. He thinks he is smart but he can only deceive the sophisticated morons while Saraki is a hundred times smarter and honest than him. Abiola's shameful end will be a child's play compared to what will happen to him by the time the abo.kis will finish dealing with him. One thing he can be sure of is that he will never rule Nigeria but he can continue in his wild goose chase in the meantime.

seunmsg:
Politics is all about interest, whether selfish or altruistic. In 2015, Tinubu wanted the vice presidency position while Saraki wanted to become Senate president. They both pursued their personal ambition that is within their rights. Attacking Tinubu based on his 2015 aspiration is plain silly.

As regards 2019, it is again all about interest, selfish or altruistic. Tinubu is supporting Buhari because his group will stand a good chance of getting the presidency in 2023. Igbo's are supporting Atiku with the hope that south east will get the vice presidency and subsequently get the presidency after his tenure. Atiku, Saraki, Tambuwal, Kwakwanso etc all rejoined PDP simply because of their presidential ambition. Power will go back to the south for 8 years if Buhari wins a second term. So, they have to fight it out with him now. Politics is all about interest, alignment, positioning and calculation.

You ended up foaming at the mouth without anything reasonable

But make I ask o. If we yoruba muslims decide to contest for presidency on APC in 2023 and North + SESS contest for PDP. Na who go win.

E be like say SE and SS no go vote Afonja like us o, dem go vote north + SE/SS and we yoruba go lose presidency. Our ojukokoro go put us for trouble.

Na wa o.

BENZINA:
There is something great about this man(Saraki) i still find difficult to explain.

You find it difficult to explain because there's nothing great about the man (Saraki)

Saraki has boxed himself into a corner. His selfish ambition has come back to bite him. This is as good as it gets for him, he wont return as senate president and he will never become president of this country. You can quote me on this.

BTW neither will Tinubu!

Calers:
Igbo don't know how to play politics,.

Shut up. Face Saraki and leave Igbos out of it.

Bukola you made me cry today after all I did for you as a son that I love so much you will be disgraced out of this game of politics except if am not your father”.

Auxtin85:
If Tinubu's plan is for Nigerians to keep suffering because of his evil political agenda, himself and Buhari won't see 2023

that's the plan now - he doesn't care

South west cannot produce vice president for 8 yrs and produce president for another 8 yrs.

This will not happen

saraki should stop mingling facts and whipping unnecessary sentiments.we all read his statement in his defection and it was all laced with personal interest which he no doubt has a right to pursue, politics is about interest. I will respect a tinubu any day than a saraki simply based on principles.
party loyalty is key, if it doesn't go ur way now things can turn around later and favour u, jumping up and down like a dog on heat demeans any iota of diligence and integrity

Soft banana peel will derail Tinubu 2023 bid and those goggles will get broken.

hooklover:
South west cannot produce vice president for 8 yrs and produce president for another 8 yrs.

This will not happen

I think the next president after Buhari will come from the SS, My money is on Amaechi

Bukola is intelligent

n0fav0rs:
Bukola is intelligent

So was Hitler!

geometricaxis:
Saraki has boxed himself into a corner. His selfish ambition has come back to bite him. This is as good as it gets for him, he wont return as senate president and he will never become president of this country. You can quote me on this.

BTW neither will Tinubu!

Even if pdp win the general election, God forbid, no right thinking President would want an ambitious Ilorin Mesujamba like Saraki as the head of the National Assembly.

Stewpid and childish response from Saraki, is Tinubu not a Nigerian, what should stop him at the appropriate time to contest for the presidency? Somebody laid foundation of APC you are talking of him contesting 2023 as if it is a crime.

Tinitifbu gat no problem,coneheads and sophisticated mourouns and zombies sef dey him back.

Lzaa immhotep shalomc onyeoga pointzerom

Sirjamo:
Saraki would either support himself or another nothern Muslim from the pdp in 2019, and that could automatically mean the south east will be shut out for another eight years.

Buhari and APC on the other hand, is willing to let them taste the presidency as soon as 2023, but their hatred and bigotry will never let them see the low hanging fruit

Big lie. Tinubu and south westerners want to succeed Buhari after which it will go back to the North.
SE will be better off waiting for another 8 years than another 20 years with APC and Buhari