Efforts by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, to convince his social media fans that he remained loyal to the ruling All Progressives Congress caused a stir on Facebook and Twitter.

His position, which he made known through a Facebook post, generated a heated controversy. His fans were divided on whether the APC still deserved the loyalty of the Senate President, who is being tried for alleged forgery and false asset declaration - offences, legal experts said, could send him to jail.

a statement published on his Twitter and Facebook pages, the Senate President described as false social media reports, which claimed, on Wednesday, that he (Saraki) had renewed his Peoples Democratic Party's membership.

"This fabrication is entirely untrue as the Senate President stands committed to the APC, a party that he helped midwife and worked for to achieve victory in the 2015 elections.

"In his official capacity as the Senate President and Chairman, National Assembly, he attended the end of session event of the PDP caucus on Wednesday evening and spent only 30 minutes before leaving the members to continue with the event," said a Facebook post by Saraki's media team.

However, the social media was, on Wednesday, awash with speculations that embattled Saraki had renewed his union with the PDP, a party he left less than three years ago. Interestingly, the Facebook statement was one post that did not earn the former Kwara State governor sympathy.

Online fans of the PDP, who had long expected him to know that he was no longer feeling at home in the APC, were as bitter as those of the ruling party, who were not convinced by "a mere" claim to loyalty.

His Facebook fan, Favour Peter, asked, "Even if you (Saraki) decide to return to the PDP, is it a crime? The former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, used to attend functions organised by the then opposition party. Heaven did not fall; he spent his tenure. Are you the Senate President of the APC or Nigeria?

Another Facebook subscriber, Oluwakayode Abbey, who was rather sarcastic, responded, "I pray that you go back to the PDP where you belong. I will be happy to see you return as that would motivate me to go back to Kwara South to join hands with your political opponents to rescue the state from you."

Meanwhile, the APC, on Thursday, kicked off a Twitter campaign on how the country could fight corruption, especially among public officials. "There is the need to increase the benefits of being honest and the costs of being corrupt in Nigeria," it noted in a series of tweets that streamed on Twitter timeline for over an hour.