Senate President, Bukola Saraki was not part of the Northern Elders forum meeting which was held yesterday to determine the political future of the Northern region.
According to Leadership newspaper, the Senate President was not in the meeting and was just as surprised as anyone at the outcome, which was that there was immense dissatisfaction at the current state of affairs in the country.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF) and 16 other leading groups met and decided that Buhari might not be the right candidate moving forward.
The position of the summit was contained in a four-page communiqué, which was read by the chief of staff to the Senate president, Dr Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
And while the reader of the communique is a member of staff of the Senate President, Saraki was reported not to have known much about the content of the document.
According to the Leadership’s source; “The Senate President, like other members of his team, was surprised to see the Channels news report in which Baba-Ahmed was presented reading the communiqué.
“In fact, the Senate President has verbally queried the Chief of Staff and members of his media team.
“Saraki’s media team immediately had a meeting to look at the implication of the Chief of Staff taking on such a role which can be misinterpreted”