Saraki Won’t Run For Presidency

A ruler of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria’s main opposition party, senator Bukola Saraki has said he will not run for president in 2015.

He pulled out of Presidential race ‘in the interest of the country and his party’.

Dr. Saraki says he is deciding to drop his presidential ambition even with major supports from key shareholders and youth groups based on his leadership profile described by infrastructural development, economic growth and striving social wellbeing.

He says Nigeria’s political position for 2015 is very difficult and “this is the time for every patriotic politician to situate his personal ambition in the context of the country’s overall interest.”

According to him, “party primaries in any healthy democracy would always leave several contenders disappointed and, sometimes bitter, as there would be only one winner. The party would then invest so much energy and time afterwards managing and reconciling various interests.I don’t think our party can afford too much internal rancour going into next year’s election. I, therefore, think some of us need to make the sacrifice and be part of the solution rather than part of the problem of the party.”
Saraki doesn’t think his party can give too much inner rancor going into next year’s race.

Senator, who is considered to be one of the masterminds of a major breakaway from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) earlier in the year says, “I therefore think some of us need to make the sacrifice and be part of the solution rather than part of the problem of the party.”

Dr. Bukola Saraki had on August 14, 2014, expressed optimism that the party will show extraordinary victory come 2015 elections.

The leadership of APC had announced last month that it would start its primary elections in October 2014, to enable them nominate a presidential candidate for the 2015 general election.
Bukola Saraki was elected governor of Kwara State, Nigeria, on 29 May 2003. He served two terms in office.