BY PATRICK WEMAMBU (With Agency Report) Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has expressed optimism that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would overcome all its challenges and bounce back in the 2027 elections. Saraki, who is the Chairman of the PDP Reconciliation Committee, said he is committed to working with others to rescue the party. According […]
By Tunde Opalana Former President of the Senate, Dr.Bukola Saraki said he was not disturbed by the gale of defection that hit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as he is ready to team up with other loyal members to rebuild the PDP. This followed the development in the Delta State chapter of party in which […]
By Tunde Opalana Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki has distanced himself from planning to join other political gladiators in the proposed opposition coalition set to tackle President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2027 presidential election. A statement by his media adviser, Yusuph Olaniyonu described the rumoured move as fabrications and […]
By Tom Okpe Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki has called for protection of the Institution of the Senate, and it’s leadership, the Senate President, instead of trying to protect the individual. Saraki, reacting to the ongoing allegations of sexual advances leveled against the incumbent President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, by the Senator representing Kogi […]
By Kemi Ayoola The recent demolition of the Crystal Place shopping mall in Ilorin has sparked an outcry from former Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki, who has seized this event as an opportunity to portray himself as the voice of Kwarans. His press release condemning Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq’s government reeks of desperation, falsehood, and hypocrisy, […]
Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has denied that he antagonized the ambition of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu to become President Muhmmadu Buhari’s running mate in 2014 for national interest. The former presidential aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, stated this while reacting to […]
By Tunde Opalana A Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Bukola Saraki in Abuja on Thursday informed Nigerians of what he will do differently if he becomes Nigeria’s next president. The former Senate President promised to fix the nation’s ailing economy, improve on the threatened security architecture and solve […]
Dr Bukoka Saraki, a former Senate President, has met delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, appealing to them to support his move to secure the party’s presidential ticket. He told the delegates that he remained their own as someone who last defeated the “Emperor of Bourdillon” who vowed that he would not […]
Posters of former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, for the 2023 presidential election have surfaced in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Our correspondent recalls that Saraki ruled Kwara State as governor between 2003 and 2011 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Saraki who moved from PDP to APC after ruling Kwara State […]
The Kwara Consultative Stakeholders Forum, which sued the state governor, Abdulrazak AbdulRahman and others on the proposed N35billion bond/loan, has denied any connection with Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, a former governor of the state, in the suit. The group, in a statement signed by its chairman, Alhaji Ayodele Olaegbe, said linking Saraki to the group […]
At the Eid praying area in Ilorin on Tuesday, supporters of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and former Senate President Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki got into a shouting match. Security personnel struggled to keep the mob under control as the situation threatened to spiral out of control. Around 9:08 a.m., the governor arrived at the premises, where […]
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Senate President Bukola Saraki, and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State are the main contenders for the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential ticket in 2023. According to a report in the Daily Independent, a former senator and member of the party’s Board of Trustees, it would be difficult for a […]
Tunde Opalana, Abuja Former Senate President and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Bukola Saraki has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to seek the assistance of past political office holders in finding a solution to the perennial security challenges that are drifting the country towards the edge. Saraki who cataloged ugly incidents in the […]
By Tunde Opalana As the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is belaboured with the zoning of its presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 general election, a rumoured intention of the former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki may further put the party in dilemma. Early callers to the PDP national secretariat, Wadata Plaza, Abuja on Tuesday were […]
Former president of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki pleads on nigerians to give the Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) another chance to govern the country and lookout what they will do. Saraki who made these remarks at the inauguration of DLA road and its adjoining street projects and government primary school, junior staff quarters Asaba […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the naming of some railway stations along Lagos-Ibadan and Itakpe, Ajaokuta, Aladja, Warri corridors after some deserving Nigerians, Daily Times gathered. This was disclosed through a statement by the ministry of transportation’s Director of Press, Eric Ojiekwe on July 27. The statement noted that the deserving citizens have contributed to […]
Bukola Saraki ,former Senate President, has reacted to the death of Emir of Kaura-Namoda in Zamfara, Alhaji Ahmad Asha who died due to coronavirus complications. Recall that the monarch died on Sunday after being isolated at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau. The Emir’s blood sample was taken to Abuja for test, having been suspected […]
The EFCC on Thursday arraigned one Ope Saraki, cousin to the former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki before a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, for alleged contract scam. The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), arraigned Ope on a two-count charge bordering on employment scam, put at over […]
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stakeholders in Ilorin West Local Government Area Kwara State have appealed to the former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, to sheath their swords and allow peace to reign in the state. The Stakeholders, who noted that both Saraki and AbdulRazaq hail from Ilorin West Local […]
The Kwara Progressives Group (KPG), an association in the vanguard of an egalitarian Kwara, has called on the Kwara State Government to investigate the numerous death of Kwara indigenes at Ile-Arugbo during the past administration. On May 27, 2011 several people died at Saraki’s Ile-Arugbo as they scrambled for rice and other items. Mr Rotimi […]