2019 Elections: Saraki speaks on dumping APC

Saraki opens up on dumping APC.

Senate President Bukola Saraki, said on Tuesday that he will not dump the All Progressives Congress, APC.

The Senate President, who told Punch through his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, noted that as a founding father of APC, he would not leave the party.

“There is nothing like that and there is nothing to suggest that. Every member must come from somewhere. Are you going to ask the President Muhammadu Buhari whether he would go back to the Congress for Progressive Change?” he asked.

“You’re not going to ask Asiwaju Bola Tinubu whether he will return to the Action Congress of Nigeria.

“Everybody has where they are coming from. As far as my principal is concerned, he is a founding father of this party. There is nothing like that,” he said.

The former Governor of Kwara State was among 10 other members of the Senate, who defected from APC to PDP on January 29, 2014.

Last week, former vice president Atiku Abubakar decamped from APC to PDP. His defection has generated insinuations that some other chieftains of APC may leave the party ahead of 2019.