Desperate Saraki dumps APC to run with Ekweremadu

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Plans to get Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) senators-elect and members of the House of Representatives-elect to vote en bloc for principal officers during today’s inauguration of the Eighth National Assembly collapsed on Monday.
There was also a split among the PDP governors on who to support between Senator Ahmed Lawan and Senator Bukola Saraki for Senate president.
At a meeting of PDP Senators-elect in Abuja, inside source told The Nation that 28 members agreed to back Saraki/Ike Ekweremadu ticket; 17 agreed to back Lawan/Akume ticket, after Saraki decided to work with PDP in a desperate move to win the race.
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Source:: New Mail