Saraki considering contesting the 2019 presidential election
The President of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, has said that he is considering contesting the 2019 presidential election, adding that he believes he can “make the change.”

Saraki, who stated this in an interview with Bloomberg, expressed concerns about the invasion of the National Assembly by operatives of the Department of State Services.
Bloomberg quoted the Senate President as saying, “I am consulting and actively considering it …I believe I can make the change.”
Saraki, who recently defected from the All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic Party, said all Nigerians should be concerned about the invasion of the National Assembly.
He stated, “If a government can go and lock up an arm of government -and it’s never happened in our history – we should all be very concerned,” Saraki said.
The Senate President said that he would not be surprised if the government used security agencies for elections.”
According to Saraki, investors and Nigerians have lost confidence in Buhari.
He stated that Nigeria needed to be governed by a genuinely pro-business administration that would be able to tackle recurrent security issues.
Saraki said, “Most of the inflows that have come in are merely hot money, and that is because the oil price has gone up. Investment in the real sector is not seen. The private sector, in my view, has probably taken a position that the confidence is not there in the government. The country requires a government that is truly pro-business and a President that sees himself as a chief marketing officer.”
On the involvement of security forces in political matters, Saraki said, “There has been a persistent disregard for due process and a lack of neutrality for some of these issues. For you to have credible elections, you must have safe elections. Security agencies are actively getting involved in the politics.”
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