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Dr. Bukola Saraki
By Akpan David, Calabar
A former Senate President, Bukola Saraki has been cautioned not to be cajoled to contest the 2023 presidential election.
In recent times, there are calls and slogan ‘Sai Bukky Sai Nigeria’ all over Kwara State that he former governor of the state, Saraki should prepare to contest.
But Prof Asiwaju Busari Shaamsuddeen Akande, who contested the same Kwara Central Senatorial election in 2019 on the platform of Abundant Nigeria Renewal Party (ANRP) alongside Saraki said, “My own candid advice to him is that, he should come back for the Kwara Central Senatorial slot, God’s willing, he will win. It’s better he finds his way back to the Senate and amend his ways to be back to mainstream politics. He is intelligent and experienced. 2019 election was to checkmate him and make him humble.”
Akande spoke in Calabar during a Leadership and Governance Retreat organised by the Chartered Institute of Leadership and Governance USA, Togo Republic Chapter.
Akande said he had joined the senatorial race in 2019 in order to challenge the belief then that if the Sarakis do not endorse no one succeeds politically.
According to him, Kwara State is now better positioned following the emergence of new set of power players which has paved ways for them who never thought would be elected without the input of the Sarakis.
He said having been humbled because Good wanted him to learn more and know who to trust, while at the Senate, God will direct his ways to who will make use of him and he will be very relevant.
“Thereafter, God keeping him, the coast might be cleared for him to become a President or VP as the case maybe. He is an asset to Nigeria.”
