Politics
“I Am Speaking From The Heart” – Saraki Tells Why He Parted With Buhari
“We had great hopes and intentions”
Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has revealed why he parted ways with President Muhammadu Buhari and returned to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
Saraki left the PDP for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to help Buhari become President.
The move enabled Saraki to become Senate President.
But things fell apart between Saraki and other promoters of the APC before the 2019 election and he returned to the PDP where he was unable to secure re-election.
Explaining why he parted ways with President Buhari and the APC, Saraki who was a guest on a Twitter Spaces discussion championed by Rinu Oduala – one of the prominent faces of #EndSars Protest – on Saturday stated
“My view in 2015, honestly, was that there was an issue of security and the level of corruption at that time and the issue of integrity, ability to lead the country with honesty and good intentions; a lot of us felt that there was going to be a change,” he said.
“There was nothing personally one was gaining out of it. It wasn’t that one was doing it out of any personal gain at all.
“You could see that when I realised that what we hoped to achieve and deliver for Nigerians was not happening, we parted ways.
“I think that that was an acceptance for me to say that this was not what we bargained for. That is the truth, I am speaking from the heart about what happened.
“We had great hopes and intentions. It did not happen. I, unlike others, said ‘look this is not what I promised Nigerians, and I can’t continue’, and we parted ways, and that is the truth about that.”
