Bukola Saraki mulls running against Muhammadu Buhari in presidential poll
Nigerian Senate president Bukola Saraki is considering running against President Muhammadu Buhari when Nigeria holds elections in February. "I am consulting and actively considering it," Saraki said on Tuesday in an interview at his home in the capital, Abuja. "I believe I can make the change." After recently defecting from the ruling All Progressives Congress, Saraki said that if he decided to run, it would be under the banner of the main opposition People’s Democratic Party. He would need to win the party’s ticket during primary elections in October. At odds with Buhari ever since he emerged as the Senate leader against the president’s wishes in 2015, Saraki is a former member of the PDP who, despite joining the APC, often went against the party line. His defection back to the PDP in July came amid a wave of such departures from the APC, including dozens of senators and at least two state governors. After security operatives surrounded Saraki’s in July for undisclosed reasons, the...
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