Senators loyal to Buhari said they would have chased Saraki out of recent meeting at Aso Rock

SENATORS loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari have revealed that they would have driven senate president Bukola Saraki out of their recent meeting at the presidential villa had he had the temerity to show up.

Last Tuesday morning, about 15 All Progressives Congress (APC) senators left the party with the bulk of them joining the main opposition the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Also, in the House of Representatives, 37 members left the APC for the PDP as did governors Samuel Ortom and Aminu Tambuwal of Benue and Sokoto states.

In a swift response, the presidency hurriedly arranged a meeting between the remaining senators and President Buhari at the presidential villa. At the meeting, one or two of the aggrieved senators like Senator Lanre Tejuosho of Ogun Central Senatorial District were convinced to return to the APC.

Senator Abdullahi Adamu of Nasarawa West Senatorial said that had Senator Saraki showed up, he would have been chased out of the meeting. According to Senator Adamu, the senate president betrayed President Buhari and the national mandate of the APC by supervising the defection of some federal lawmakers to the PDP.

According to Senator Adamu, Senator Saraki’s group in the senate were fond of opposing and sabotaging the government of President Buhari. He accused Senator Saraki of deliberately leading the senate into recess so as to give him and his associates time to perfect measures to manoeuvre the unpleasant effects of his much anticipated defection to the PDP.

Senator Adamu said: “There’s no question that Saraki is going to dump the APC, he’s not in the APC anymore. We were there in the presidency, the APC caucus but he wasn’t there, so, don’t say he will and as far as we’re concerned, he’s gone.

“If he had turned up for the meeting with the president, I would have sent him out. I would have told them that you don’t belong here, you betrayed the president, you want to continue with the game of betrayal? Get out of this place."

He added that each time they talk about strengthening institutions, the Saraki camp means strengthening their bogey position of office. According to Senator Adamu, they will never play along, supporting their own government.

“Take it from me that our colleagues who are now members of the PDP have made the mistake of their lives and they have committed a political blunder. You can start counting the days of failure that confronts the PDP.

“We were not suppose to go on recess on Tuesday and this is the longest recess we’re having, which is about two months. The whole thing is to give them time to manoeuvre to do what they want to do but it is an end game for them,” Senator Adamu added.