We will take over the Senate if Saraki loses at CCT – PDP Senators

The Peoples Demicratic Party, PDP, may have fired a warning shot at the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as Senators elected on its platform, have warned that they would take over the upper chamber of the National Assembly, should Saraki lose at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.

This was stated by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Niger Delta, Peter Nwaoboshi, while speaking with journalists in Abuja.

Accorsing to him, the PDP caucus woukd not support another APC Senator from becoming the Senate President but seize the opportunity to produce a PDP Senate President.

He said: “Well, I wish APC the best of luck if they are making that wild goose chase. But I want you to mark what I am saying. I was the first to address the press in Port Harcourt and I told them that Saraki was going to win the Senate presidency and I gave them my reasons.

“Then, nobody ever thought that Saraki was going to win. People were saying that APC had decided. But it was clear to me that he was going to win and I had to address the press.

“I said Saraki was going to win and that he was going to get my vote. Eventually, we went there, he won. If, but God forbids, because we don’t see it coming, by chance Saraki is removed, I can tell you that PDP will produce the next Senate President”, Senator Nwaboshi said.

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According to him, all the PDP needs to clinch the Senate Presidency is three APC Senators which he said they have.

“The calculation is very clear to me. The calculation is very clear for PDP. We know what it would take us.

“When I told them that Saraki was going to win, I did a lot of mathematical calculations based on the facts on the ground and it is even clearer to me now that the PDP will win it. We will win it.

“If anybody is thinking that a PDP man is going to vote against a PDP candidate, he is telling you a lie. We have people and we know how to get the people from APC. We will win and that will be very interesting.

“What is happening in America is going to happen in Nigeria. America has a Republican Senate but the executive is led by a Democrat, so it’s happening in different parts of the world. I can tell you with what’s on the ground that we will produce the next Senate President.”

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