Crisis Will Make PDP Stronger Democratically– Saraki

Senator Bukola Saraki representing Kwara Central at the national assembly has assured that the on-going crisis in the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) will soon be resolved and will make the party to be stronger for future elections. The Senator who is one of the PDP leaders in the Baraje-led PDP faction, said this while addressing journalists inside the great hall in his residence on the crisis rocking the ruling party which he noted will soon be resolved. The chairman of the senate committee on environment and ecology while being welcomed to Ilorin by tumulus crowd at the Ilorin international airport also called on the losers of the recently concluded rerun local government election in Offa to take legal means to express their grievances instead of demonstration which could be hijacked by hoodlums. He said the interest of members of the party should be paramount in the minds of political leaders as he thanked indigenes for believing in him to always fight for their cause. He denounced the insinuations that his faction of the PDP had concluded arrangement to defect to another party assuring that the party will be salvage to meet the yearnings of the members. Commenting on the crisis in the party, the senator representing Ilorin south at the House of Representatives, Dr Ahmad Alli and the Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Rasak Atunwa described the efforts of the Baraje faction as means of salvaging the party from dictatorial tendencies of the Bamanga Tukur faction. On the outcome of the rerun local government election in Offa local government, Senator Saraki urged the opposition party to pursue legal means to air their grievances, which is in the best in democratic setting instead of demonstration which could further worsen the political situation in the area.