Nigerian Senate President, Bukola Saraki is expected to resign from office ahead of the judgement of the Code of Conduct Tribunal in his trial for false declaration of assets and corruption as some of his hardline loyalists are already advising him to quit office to save face, The Vanguard is reporting.
The senators, who included some of his loyalists that followed him to his Maitama, residence in Abuja after the trial yesterday rose from a special meeting asking him to consider resigning to save the sanctity of the senate as an institution.
But while Saraki was yet to make up his mind, Senators of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, are already scrambling among themselves over who to succeed the embattled senate president.
Also, senators of the People Democratic Party are already scheming to make one of their own Saraki’s Successor.
“I can confirm to you that at a special meeting held yesterday, we asked the Senate President to consider the option of resignation.
“We believe that doing so would preserve the institution of the Senate. This was just thrown at him this evening. We believe that he would do the right thing,” Vanguard claimed an unnamed PDP senator told its correspondents.
Meanwhile, names of senators Abdullahi Adamu, representing Nasarawa West from the APC and Suleiman Adokwe of the PDP were being touted as possible replacements of the Senate President to press time.
