he Federal Government on Wednesday said that the defection of the Senate President Bukola Saraki from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), was a great relief, saying the party suffered more under his leadership as the number three man in the country.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who stated this while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the Senate President has become the greatest obstacle to the government.

He said that if Dr. Saraki was not a member of the APC, “I don’t think the government would have suffered more as regards the delay in passing the budget.

“The Senate President has behaved all along as if he was a member of the opposition.”
He said the APC stands to lose nothing with the defection of the Senate President and his loyalists, adding that the APC in the state will grow stronger with his exit.
He also said that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state have also defected to APC in disapproval of Saraki’s coming back to the party.
https://independent.ng/saraki-greatest-obstacle-to-buharis-administration-fg/

bad government. when you operate a bad system of govenance what do you expect?

"The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed........said the Senate President has become the greatest obstacle to the government."

Chai! So Saraki is to be blame now Saraki the biggest obstacle to APC clueless, useless, rudderless, lawless, tyrannical and satanic government
No more the lack of blueprint on good governance, presidency cabal, or killer BH, fulani atrocities?

I laugh in Spanish.the worst mistake one should avoid is to lie to one's self. Lie Mohammed even lies to himself. Let me grab popcorn and watch the movie.

I thank God for Saraki. History will show that more bills were passed in the 8th Senate than any other Senate before.

Typical example of the Saraki obstacle is the case of Magu. Where the executive nominated Magu and yet an agency of the executive the DSS wrote a damaging security report on Magu. Saraki asked the executive to either correct the DSS report or withdraw Magu. The DSS wrote a second report standing by their initial damaging security report while the same executive refused to withdraw Magu's name from consideration. Instead they were trying to bully the NASS to confirm an Anti-Corruption head that was given a damaging security report by the DSS even though they know that clean security report is a pre-requisite for NASS confirmation. The Senate did the needful and withheld confirmation.

Saraki at no time tried to attack or unjustly block Buhari's agenda. Saraki only presided over a Senate that tried to stick to the rules.

I think the 8th Senate is the best Senate in the history of Nigeria because neither PDP nor APC has overwhelming majority to pass anything and hence bills and government policy were subjected to more scrutiny before they could pass.

I hope that no matter who occupies the Presidency in future whether the PDP or APC we continue to have this kind of slim margin in the NASS because that way the Government is held more accountable.

presidency will soon decamp

The only people that will still continue to support Buhari are only the enemies of Nigeria.
The stories are endless:
Killings of Shiites;
Killings of IPOB;
Killings in Benue;
Killings in Zamfara;
Killings in Adamawa;
Killings in Taraba;
Killings in NE;
Killings of our soldiers. buhari is not doing nigeria good for our democracy. he is running prison-yard democracy. oshiomole is even destroying Apc the more. more defection coming.

The blame game shift from GEJ to Saraki hmmmm

You're on your own

Don Saraki we know

Who hath thou

The nepa bill led federal government has been blaming everything since 2015 till now. Shameless cow government!

The suffering has just begun, remember PDP is now the Senate President and the Deputy Senate president.
He refused to be a rubber stamp president.

Fifth columnist. A PDP holding a broom aloft with one hand while hiding his umbrella in the back with the other hand.

So Saraki was responsible for the MDAs that refused to defend their respective budgets?

Lai Mohamed must be very stupid