NIGERIAN TRIBUNE has a report of how Bukola Saraki emerged, speaker of the Nigerian senate without the support of his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.

A new political reality berthed in the nation on Tuesday, with a precedented legislative coup and well-oiled rebellion in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), producing a hybrid of leadership in the National Assembly, with analysts positing that the real impact of the horse-trading that produced an APC Senate President in the person of Senator Bukola Saraki of Kwara Central and a PDP Deputy Senate President in the person of Senator Ike Ekweremadu of Enugu West, would be more telling in the race for presidency in 2019, which is thought to have commenced.

 Though the dynamics of the the new “political rapprochement” were slightly different in the House of Representatives, with the APC producing both the Speaker in Honourable Yakubu Dogara, representing Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa-Balewa federal constituency of Bauchi State and the Deputy Speaker in Honourable Sulaiman Lasun Yusuf, representing Irepodun/Osogbo federal constituency of Osun State, it was still the show of the new opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which teamed with APC rebels to snatch the most prized diadem in the lower chamber from the ruling party-anointed, Honourable Femi Gbajabiamila, representing Surulere federal constituency, just as it did in the Senate, when its “collaboration” with Saraki supplanted APC-anointed, Senator Ahmad Lawan.

Interestingly, the franchise of opposition party exploring internal discontent in the ruling party to promote rebels to positions of authority in the National Assembly while the former holds the level of power belongs to one of the APC’s legacy parties, the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), whose loyalists dominated the National Working Committee (NWC) of the new ruling party, now spurned on its choices of Senate president and speaker.

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SOURCE: Nigerian Tribune