Saraki’s Imminent Sack: APC Drops Lawan, Roots For Akume, Tinubu As Senate President, Deputy

National Mirror – As Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki appeared yesterday before the Code of Conduct Tribunal over alleged false assets declara­tion, the, All Progressives Congress, APC ,was said to be considering former sen­ate leader, George Akume, wife of the national leader of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu , Senator Remi Ti­nubu and two other rank­ing senators from the South West zone as Saraki’s replacement.


Apart from Senator Akume who is from the North Central zone and Remi Tinubu, no other names were mentioned but sources said other two rank­ing senators also from the South West are being con­sidered on APC shop list.

Feelers from Abuja reaching Kaduna, the sec­ond home of President Mu­hammadu Buhari revealed that, barring any last min­ute change of plan, Saraki may be asked to resign or if he refused, may be im­peached on moral ground to concentrate on his trial.

National Mirror gath­ered that, Senator Ahmed Lawan who was anointed by APC as its sole candidate but lost to Saraki would emerge senate leader from the North East, since the Speaker is also from the zone.

One of the credible sources explained that, though Saraki and Dogara jettisoned APC’s ,earlier zoning of National Assem­bly principal officers which favoured the north which has both the Senate Presi­dent and Speaker but that under the new power shar­ing deal, South West zone may produce the senate president.

South East and South-South have no APC sena­tors and are already out of the new deal.

Meanwhile, one of the anti -Saraki’s groups, Northern Ethnic Nation­alities Unity Congress, NENUC, had called on the senate president to re­sign or face impeachment over CCT 13 count charges against him.