Date: 2015-05-11

Senator Bukola Saraki's ambition to emerge as the 8th Senate President of the National Assembly got a major boost recently as the chairmen of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the North-Central region has backed his candidacy.

Saraki, who is also from the region, was unanimously adopted as the sole candidate of the zone by the leaders of Kwara, Benue, Plateau, Kogi and Nasarawa APC. Saraki is the senator currently Kwara Central Senatorial district at the National Assembly.

The statement by the leaders reads: "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. Advertisement "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." In a related development, amidst rumours that the APC is set to zone the position of the Senate Presidency to the North-Central region against the wish of senators from the North East region, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is set to play a fast one the APC by backing Senator Danjuma Goje. Meanwhile, female marketers from various banks have flooded the International Conference Centre, the venue of an ongoing induction course for newly elected senators and House of Representatives members to persuade the lawmakers to ope bank accounts with them.