- Kwara PDP says rumour of imminent suspension of Saraki fake
- State Working Committee calls for calm and unity among party members in Kwara
Rumours making the rounds about the imminent suspension of the former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are fake, Kwara State chapter of the party has said.
The State Working Committee, SWC, says there was no plan whatsoever to suspend the former Kwara state governor.
The party debunked the rumour in a communique issued after the SWC meeting in Ilorin, the state capital, on Saturday.
The SWC implored party members and supporters to remain calm and disregard the rumoured suspension of the former two term governor of the state.
“We urge our party members and supporters to be calm and discountenance the purported rumoured suspension of our leader, Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki, by the State Working Committee members as mischievously circulated by some people aimed at causing disharmony in the party,” the communique signed by the state party Chairman, Babatunde Mohammed and the state Secretary, Abdulrazaq Lawal said.
It explained that the enlarged meeting called on June 1, 2023, to review the outcome of the 2023 general elections, “was misconstrued or misrepresented by some disgruntled elements.”
Saraki was a two term governor of Kwara state under PDP. He governed the state between 2004 and 2011. He dumped the party in 2014 with other rebellious chieftains and governors of the party to join the then newly formed All Progressive Congress. He emerged the senate president in 2015 despite not being the anointed candidate of the APC and the former president Muhammadu Buhari, a situation that put him on a collision course with his party and contributed to losing his return bid to the senate in 2019.
Saraki left APC in 2018 and returned to PDP under which he contested for a seat in the semate but lost.
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