Senator Abiodun Olujimi, the Minority Leader of the Senate, has said the PDP will not field any candidate for the position of Senate president, but the ruling APC will play into their hands.
Olujimi said this while featuring on Politics Today programme on Channels TV on Sunday.
She said anyone contesting for the position of Senate presidency and thinks 44 PDP senators out of 109 senators are not needed will be making the greatest mistake of his life.
“The controversy is unnecessary because the dynamics of the Senate is different from what is outside. What will happen is that whoever will be the Senate president will have to network between APC and PDP lawmakers.
“Anyone who thinks 44 members out of 109 senators are not important will have another thing coming. Anyone who ignored that will suffer just like it happened when we resumed in 2015.
“No. We are not going to field a candidate but they are going to play into our hands”, she said.
Also speaking at the same programme, Senator-elect for Ekiti Central, Opeyemi Bamidele said his party, APC is concerned about the gimmick of 2015.
“It’s not about Lawan. The concern we have is that it must not be the same old story. We all saw what happened in 2015. When there is confrontation with executive and legislative arms of government, it is the country that suffers.
“From all who have come out to contest as Senate president, I have not seen anyone who is not eminently qualified but there are global parliamentary best practices that must be followed.
“This is about democracy and definitely you cannot stop people who feel strongly about contesting from contesting but we need a leadership that is not only experienced but that can relate with people across party lines.
“Senator Lawan is the most experienced. By the time we will be inaugurated, he would have spent 20 years in the National Assembly”, he said.
