PDP reportedly plots to pick Senate president should Saraki be convicted by CCT

Pro-Saraki senators and Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) senators are reportedly working on a plan which will lead to the election of a new Senate President from the opposition party, should Saraki be convicted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) – the ''worst case scenario''

''Some loyalists of Saraki and PDP senators have been meeting on the options available and how to tackle President Muhammadu Buhari,'' an insider told The Nation. ''At the meeting in Abuja, they resolved to stand by Saraki but if he is convicted, they will make sure that the next president of the Senate is from the PDP. They are really aggrieved and have vowed to stop the candidate of the Unity Forum, Sen. Ahmed Lawan, from emerging as Saraki’s successor.

The source added, ''From the way PDP and its senators are rallying around Saraki, no one needs a soothsayer to know that a bigger conspiracy is in the offing. The PDP has not come to terms with the fact that it lost the last general elections.''

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