A senator, Abdullahi Adamu (APC-Nasarawa), has
faulted the defection of the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, from the
All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Mr Adamu, who made this known in an interview
with journalists in Abuja on Friday, said “Saraki had stepped on banana peel
and should be prepared to bear the consequences of his action.”
Messrs Adamu and Saraki, former political
allies, have been antagonists since the former accused the senate president of
working against the interest of President Muhammadu Buhari.
Mr Saraki earlier in the week attacked Mr Adamu, saying he was a deceptive, manipulative
and desperate liar.
“He feels the best way to play his
self-survival game and ingratiate himself to the government in order to save
his skin is for him to be seen to be fighting Saraki, even if that would
require him to tell brazen lies and peddle mischief in his old age,” Me Saraki
said of the Nasarawa senator who had repeatedly criticised him.
In his Friday statement on the senate
president, Mr Adamu said, “If Saraki knows political intricacies and the
political terrain or the path where the banana peel in political landscape is,
he will be more cautious.
“The way he is going now, he has obviously
stepped on banana peel and only God knows how far he will slip.
“I will not pretend. I think he made a mistake
and he took a wrong decision. He will have stories to tell along the line.
“It is not the best he could have done. He had
a duty to his father to keep the flag of the family flying but the way he is
going, I do not think he is doing that.”
He then urged Mr Saraki to step down to avert
consequences, adding that “he should honourably return the crown or be ready to
bear the consequences.”
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