Should Senators Begin Search For Saraki's Successor?

It appears members of the upper chamber of the National Assembly are closing in on a successor to Senate president, Bukola Saraki in case the inevitable happens.

Senate President, Senator Saraki

This is as a result of the failure to secure a safe landing for the Senate president at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. 

All legal and political steps taken to stop the trial of Saraki at the CCT have hit a brick wall and the tribunal has fixed March 11 to start his trial.

 The Senate president had sought an order quashing his trial before the CCT but the court ruled that his trial should be continued. Report has it that Saraki’s friends and political associates within and outside the National

 Assembly had equally intensified efforts to lobby the presidency to prevail on the CCT to stop the case but major political actors in the presidency claimed that their hands were tied on the matter because all facts were already in the public domain. 

A senator who claimed to be privy to the lobby option said Saraki’s emissary to the presidency said attempting a political solution at this stage would cause a setback for President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade. 

Source: Naij.com