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I'M WITH BUHARI - SARAKI'S SISTER

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After the defection of the Senate President Bukola Saraki from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, it seem the political rivalry in the Saraki dynasty has again be awoken, the rivalry that can be traced back to the 2011 general election.
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Some hours after the Senate President has made his official announcement, his sister and arch political rival, Gbemisola Ruqayat Saraki declared her unflagging support for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari and the success of the APC in the firth coming general election. After a long political battle the Senate president wrote yesterday that ```While I take full responsibility for this decision, I will like to emphasise that it is a decision that has been inescapably imposed on me by certain elements and forces within the APC who have ensured that the minimum conditions for peace, cooperation, inclusion and a general sense of belonging did not exist,``` he said.It can be recalled that Saraki and the G7 governor were part of the people who left the then ruling party PDP in 2014 for APC, Saraki stated that PDP has learnt more from its defeat in the 2015 election than the ruling party (APC) has learnt from its victory.```The PDP that we return to is now a party that has learnt its lessons the hard way and have realised that no member of the party should be taken for granted; a party that has realized that inclusion, justice and equity are basic precondition for peace; a party that has realized that never again can the people of Nigeria be taken for granted.``` Subsequently after her brother announced his parting with APC Gbemisola Saraki, in a Facebook post, reaffirmed her support for President Muhammadu Buharis re-election and the APC.```I maintain my unwavering support for President Muhammadu Buhari, now and for his re-election in 2019, and for the success of our party, the APC, in Kwara State and across the federation,``` she wrote.```All members of my political organisations including GRS Movement (GRSM); GRS Foundation (GRSF); GRS Friends on Facebook (GRSFOF), Paramount Women Forum (PWF) and GRS Grassroots Youth Movements (GRS-GYM) will begin to implement the first phase of our Get-Out-The-Vote for PMB and APC.Politics is a public service to the people and we ought to conduct it with dignity, peace and love for our fellow citizens.May Allah grant us direction, guidance and restraint in our utterances and conduct,``` she wrote. The rivalry between the siblings can be traced back to 2011, when Gbemisola, who had been a member of the House of Representatives (from 1999 to 2003 under the defunct All Peoples Party) and two-term senator (from 2003 to 2011 under the PDP), wanted to succeed her brother, who was then outgoing governor of their native Kwara State. She got the backing of their late father, Olusola Saraki, but her brother kicked against the idea arguing that it was not morally correct for the position to be rotated between siblings. He then backed the incumbent governor of the state, Abdulfatah Ahmed. Having lost control of the PDP in the state to his son, their father, popularly called Baba Oloye, left the party and formed the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) under whose platform Gbemisola contested but lost to Mr Ahmed. Mr Saraki was then also elected senator to represent Kwara Central Senatorial District.In 2014, then as a member of the PDP, after her brother had defected to form the APC, she tried to contest for the governorship position of the state but was defeated at the partys primary by Simoen Ajibola. She remained in the PDP till 2015 but under acrimonious conditions as members of the states chapter of the party saw her as an extension of her fathers hegemony and blocked her every move. Though it is not clear if she is interested in contesting in the coming election.

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