A former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Saturday called on political appointees seeking to contest offices in 2023 to resign their ministerial appointments before pursuing their ambitions.
He also faulted the request by the President, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari , for the National Assembly to remove section 84 from the Electoral Act. The section bars political appointees from voting or being voted for at party congresses and conventions. Saraki, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, spoke with our correspondent in Abuja shortly after a meeting with the National Youth Leader of the PDP and the Zonal and State Youth Leaders at the party’s National Secretariat.
“If you want to contest, for heaven’s sake, go out, resign and go and contest? Why would you stay in political office? It’s even wrong for us to be debating it. It is so selfish.”
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