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Nigerian leader Muhammadu Buhari suffered another blow when the Senate Speaker left the ruling party less than a week after some 50 lawmakers joined opposition ranks. in full expansion before the elections
. After long consultations, I decided to take leave of the Congress of Progressives ", and join the opposition People's Democratic Party, Bukola Saraki, said Tuesday in a statement by e-mail. is the third highest ranked politician after the president and his deputy, in the first oil producer in Africa.
He is the most prominent figure to leave the APC before the February 2019 elections with Buhari, 75 years old The realignment of Saraki follows the announcement of last week by more than fifty legislators that they were joining the opposition, with a majority in the Democratic People's Party , who ruled Nigeria for 16 years until Buhari's victory in 2015.
] "The significance of this, for the ruling party, is immense," said Clement Nwankwo, executive director of the plaid legal and political office based in Abuja. "If the head of the legislative power leaves the ruling party for an opposition The governor of the southwestern state of Kwara, Abdulfatah Ahmed, also left the APC and went to the PDP Shortly after the announcement of Saraki, according to the release .. a message from his Twitter account Saraki is a former governor of that state.
A spokesman for the presidency, Garba Shehu, said that he was not immediately in a position to comment on the developments when He telephoned to the Togolese capital, Lome, where Buhari was attending a closed meeting of the Economic Community of African States of West, he said. "Governing Nigeria, it's less about ideology than about access to wealth and power in this oil-rich nation. nearly 200 million people.
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