Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has lost nothing by the defection of the Senate President Bukola Saraki from the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Saraki and the governor of Kwara state, Abdulfatah Ahmed, announced their exits from the APC on Tuesday evening to the major opposition Peoples Democratic Party.
And Mohammed, addressing the press after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja, said Saraki had all along been behaving like a member of the opposition even while still a member of the APC.
As stated by Mohammed, who, like Saraki, hails from Kwara, the senate president had been slowing down the progress of the Buhari government from within.
He said, “If Senate President Bukola Saraki were not a member of the APC, the party and the government it leads could not have suffered more than they had already done, with regards to the delay in passing the budget, approving key appointments and so on.
“In other words, Saraki has behaved all along as a member of the opposition, deliberately slowing down the progress of the APC-led Federal Government.
“It is therefore neither a surprise nor a blow that he has defected.
“Perhaps, the only surprise is that when he eventually defected, it was a mere whimper!
“If we didn’t gain by having our member as Senate President, we stand to lose nothing by losing him.”