Ah! Saraki has just dug his own grave
At
the inception of this administration, the president and the ruling
party, APC made it known to all that they don’t need a senate president
with excess baggage.
They don’t need a senate president with
outstanding corruption cases because they want to maintain a neat
leadership devoid of personalities with ongoing corruption cases.
Ordinarily,
Senator George Akume was supposed to emerge as the senate president in
the sense that he was the senate minority leader when his party (APC)
was in the opposition.
With his party coming to power, he was supposed to be automatically elevated to the senate presidency.
His
ambition was cut short after the president insisted that his number
three man must be devoid of any outstanding corruption case . Akume has an outstanding case with EFCC.
Seeing
the danger ahead and also not wanting to go against his party wish, the
political field Marshall, the JAGABAN BORGU, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who
had supported the Akume candidature, did a political somersault and
adviced his friend, Akume to deter his ambition and transfered his
support to the party’s preferred choice being Senator Lawan of Yobe
State.
Once
again, Tinubu proved to be the master political strategist, knowing
when to either pull out, move forward or move backwards.
Unlike
Akume, Saraki has more serious outstanding corruption cases hanging on
his head and could have deferred his ambition but pride and stupidity
took hold of him and he decided to go extreme.
He did not only
disobey his party but went as far as conspiring with the PDP and
betrayed his party by making a PDP man the Deputy Senate president.
Well, after the president and vice declared their assets, the next person was the senate president.
And what do we expect the government to do when its senate president defaulted?
To leave him and create the wrong impression that the government’s anti-corruption stance is just a fluke?
Please
blame Saraki for his problems. He was prior informed about what is in
stock for a senate president with excess baggage, but he still went
ahead and decided to destroy himself.
So how does his issues now translate to witch hunting when he was fore warned of the implications of his ambition? He dug his own grave out of pride and greed.