Buhari Avoids Meeting With Saraki, Because He Is Still Pained – Sources Disclose

President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly refused another series of moves by Senate president Bukola Saraki to hold an official meeting with him.

After Saraki’s emergence as the president of the Red Chamber, which was surrounded by controversy within the All Progressives Congress, the two met only once. The Punch provides with reference to reliable sources that all efforts by Saraki to have another meeting have failed.

“The truth is that the President is still displeased with what transpired in the National Assembly, especially the Senate. Their encounter during the APC National Executive Council (NEC) meeting, when they shook hands, was the first meeting between President Buhari and Saraki since he emerged as the president of the Senate.

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“We are aware that Saraki has been going about begging people to assist him to plead with the President to meet with him. That was one of the reasons why he visited former President Obasanjo.

“I can tell you that the president is very pained by what happened. He felt that since he had been transparent with the party, everybody should play that way. But since Saraki took that path, the president was and he is still pained. Let us just hope that at the end of it all, they will be able to put the matter behind them.”

Another top official disclosed to the correspondent that the even during the NEC meeting, the handshake between the two politicians was for cameras.

“President Buhari is still upset because of what happened. If you read in-between the line his speech during our last NEC meeting, he reminded people who joined the party after it was formed not to rubbish the sacrifices made by party leaders.

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“It was not for the fun of it that the President took time to go down the memory lane to trace the genesis of the APC. Although the president said he was prepared to work with anybody who emerged as leader in the National Assembly, he did not envisage a scenario where Saraki would emerge as the Senate president and Ike Ekweremadu, a member of the PDP, would emerge as the deputy president of the Senate.”

Recall that after Saraki’s victory, which contradicted the results of the mock election conduced on the eve of the final voting, President Buhari still characterized the outcome as contitutional.

The situation, however, caused deep crisis within the party. The APC authorities accused Saraki and his supporters of playing a double game for the sake of their own interests. Saraki, on his part, insisted he had neither intention nor plan to shatter the party’s confidence.

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