Senator Bukola Saraki elected Senate President with solid PDP backing

Senator Bukola Saraki has defied All Progressives Congress Change position to emerge Senate President.
The kingmaker of APC, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s candidate for the Senate Presidency Ahmad Lawan, lost out in a selection that saw the Bukola Saraki returned unopposed.
Tinubu had engineered the party to adopt Lawan as its candidate for the covet position in a shadow election held last Thursday in Lagos.
Ahmad Lawan, the preferred candidate of the APC, was not even nominated.
When Abubakar Sani, the clerk of the national assembly, called for more nominations, the chambers of the 8th Senate was silent. Shortly afterwards, he declared Senator Bukola Saraki the duly elected president of the senate.
The Rainbow learnt that 57 out of the 108 inaugurated the 8th National Assembly with the reading of the proclamation letter from President Muhammadu Buhari by the Clerk of the National Assembly, Alhaji Salisu Maikasua.
According to the reports, 57 Senators out of which 49 are from PDP nominated and endorsed Senator Bukola Saraki.
a three-term senator from Kwara state as the President of the Senate.
Only 55 senators are required to choose a senate president.
Saraki, a three-time Senator and former Governor of Kwara State, had staged a relentless campaign for the job, until it appeared all hopes had been lost with the APC’s adoption of Lawan.
The APC leadership had called for the postponement of the inauguration of the 8th assembly.