Senator Bukola Saraki representing Kwara central senatorial district at the National Assembly has been endored for Senate Presidency by the chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the six states that made up the north-central zone of the country. The states are Benue, Kwara, Kogi, Nasarawa, Plateau and Niger.
According to a statement signed by issued after the end of their meeting in Ilorin yesterday, the Chairmen said they have no doubt in their minds as to Saraki being the best man for the job.
The statement which was signed by Hon. Ishola Balogun- Fulani, and his Kogi state’s counterpart, Mr. Haddi Ameto, who is the secretary of the forum read “We, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chairmen from the North-central Geo- political Zone met at the weekend and unanimously endorsed Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki as our preferred candidate as the Senate President for the 8th National Assembly.
“Our decision to endorse Senator Saraki, representing Kwara Central Senatorial District at the upper chamber of the National Assembly was borne out of his unprecedented commitment to the growth and success of the party at all levels in the Zone and across the country.
“We, the party chairmen, who are the field officers can attest, without any contradiction that Saraki’s unparalleled commitment to the party broke the hitherto political Jinx in the zone where the PDP was holding sway and delivered the zone to All Progressives Congress (APC) a feat that was unprecedented in the history of the zone and indeed Nigerian political history.
“As the party leaders in our various states we hereby unequivocally say that our people unanimously give their support to Saraki Senate Presidency without iota of doubt in his ability to make the zone and Nigeria proud in no distance future and as well deliver as he had done in other endeavors he had involved in the past.”