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With Saraki’s exit, Lai now relishing role of APC leader in Kwara

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With Saraki’s exit, Lai now relishing role of APC leader in Kwara

The defection of Senate President Bukola Saraki from the All Progressives Congress (APC) has been described as bringing good fortune for the ruling party in Kwara State.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, made this claim when he appeared as guest on a Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) programme, “Stepping Up” on Sunday, claiming that many opposition politicians have been defecting to the APC as a result of Saraki’s defection.

Saraki, the governor of Kwara, Abdulfatah Ahmed; 23 out of the 24 members of the state House of Assembly, and many other chieftains of the APC, including its former national publicity secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, had recently dumped the ruling party for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

With the exit of Saraki, Lai has become the most senior government official of the party from the state, and automatically the leader of the APC In Kwara State, a position he has been trying to justify since Saraki left.

But Mohammed claimed that the APC was not bothered by the defection as the party has gained massively from the development in the state.

He said, “Yes, we lost some people who left with the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, like the state governor and 23 of the 24 members of House of Assembly. But the good news is that APC had gained massively. Many PDP members who could not stand in the same party with Saraki are defecting to APC.

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“The most important thing is that the people of Kwara are very much with us and I am confident that come 2019, we will win massively in Kwara State”.

Though the ruling APC has maintained that it was never bothered by Saraki’s defection, it has however vowed to use everything legally possible to throw sack Saraki from his seat as Senate President.

 

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