Word on the street is that Senate President Bukola Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari are still not on speaking terms; close to two months after the former emerged Senate President without the blessings of his party, the APC.

Buhari is disgusted that Saraki’s emergence for the position paved the way for the opposition PDP to return to reckoning on the floor of parliament in the mould of Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. The President has publicly expressed his concerns on this front.

Now The Punch is reporting that traditional leaders have been tasked by Saraki to help smoothen things between him and the number one citizen in the land.

In realising this objective, the senate president, has sought the help of the Emir of his home town, Ilorin, Kwara State, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, an aide of the emir told The Punch.

According to the emir’s aide who spoke on condition of anonymity, the senate president has requested some prominent traditional rulers in the state led by Sulu-Gambari, who is also the Chairman, Kwara State Council of Traditional Rulers, to intercede on his behalf with Buhari.

It was gathered that the monarchs had wanted to meet with Buhari but could not as a result of the President’s visit to the United States and his recent visit to Cameroon to seek for regional collaboration against Boko Haram.

The aide also said this would not be the first time Sulu-Gambari had interceded on behalf of Saraki concerning the senate presidency.

According to him, the Emir of Ilorin before the emergence of Saraki as the Senate President had sent a team of emissaries to the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, with a view to getting the former Lagos State governor soften on his stand against Saraki’s ambition to occupy the exalted position.

He said Saraki is now more worried with the resolution of the leadership tussle in the House of Representatives, where the Speaker, Alhaji Yakubu Dogora, after meetings with Buhari and other APC stakeholders acceded to the party’s decision and announced Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila as the House Leader.

The aide added that Saraki was in Ilorin at the weekend, adding that the Senate President would continue with his mobilisation for prominent stakeholders to smoothen the relationship between him and Buhari.

“We shall continue to observe”.