{"id":38335,"date":"2015-05-04T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=38335"},"modified":"2015-05-04T16:43:28","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T15:43:28","slug":"senate-saraki-joins-forces-with-goje-to-stop-lawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/senate-saraki-joins-forces-with-goje-to-stop-lawan\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate: Saraki Joins Forces With Goje To Stop Lawan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facts emerged at the weekend that the immediate past governor of Kwara State, Senator Bukola Saraki, has entered a deal with Senator Danjuma Goje from Gombe State, to stop Senator Ahmad Lawan from becoming the next Senate President.<\/span><\/div>\n
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On Thursday, 20 senators from the northwest geo-political zone unanimously endorsed Lawan, a senator from Yobe State, North east get-political zone, as their preferred candidate to lead the Eighth Senate.<\/span><\/div>\n
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However, barely 24 hours after the endorsement by the northwest senate caucus, Goje, who served as governor of Gombe State from 2003 to 2011, told Senate correspondents that Lawan wasn\u2019t the consensus candidate of his northeast zone.<\/span><\/div>\n
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However, further checks in Abuja revealed that Goje\u2019s press conference was sponsored by Sarakim Both men served as governors at the same time and are known friends and political and business associates in and S outside the Senate They jointly left the PDP for the new-PDP and later, the APC.<\/span><\/div>\n
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A ranking senator from the northwest, where President-elect. Muhammadu Buhari hails from,\u00a0who later got wind of the arrangement, expressed disappointment in Goje.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cThis is typical of Goje, always willing to do the dirty job. We heard that Saraki has promised to make him deputy Senate President. Even at that, it remains to be seen how such treachery will pay off,\u201d said the senator.<\/span><\/div>\n
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It was further gathered that Lawan\u2019s endorsement by the north west caucus had greatly unsettled Saraki who saw it knocking him off the race for the Senate Presidency.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Another senator from the North west said they were worried that Saraki might play the spoiler and ruin Lawan\u2019s chances of becoming the next Senate President.<\/span><\/div>\n
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He, however, cautioned that, \u201cThis is not APC and definitely not PDP where anybody will play spoiler and get away with it. The Sarakis are best known for criss-crossing parties whenever they don\u2019t get what they decree. We are closely monitoring him.\u201d<\/div>\n
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He continued, \u201cSaraki\u2019s, sorry, Goje\u2019s press conference was to create the false impression that the northeast is not united and create an excuse to zone the Senate Presidency out of the zone to the northcentral.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201cClaims that Lawan was imposed on the zone are lies. Who imposed who? If there is any imposition, it is Goje who wants to impose his godfather so that the northeast can continue to be political vasals,\u201d he declared.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Goje is clearly working against the North east because of his deputy \u00a0senate president ambition.<\/div>\n

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