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Nigeria - PUNCH reports that Ex President Olusegun Obasanjo's reconciliation of Senate President Bukola Saraki with aggrieved member of his party has hit a brick wall.
Saraki had during the week paid a well publicised visit to Obasanjo to seek his intervention in the crisis rocking the ruling party caused by his emergence as senate president.
However reports from PUNCH says the former president’s intervention has failed to yield the results desired by Saraki and his camp.
It was gathered that shortly after Saraki’s visit to the former president, Obasanjo made a telephone call to Buhari advising him to make up with Saraki. The former president had reportedly told the president to work with Saraki and let the party deal with all the disciplinary issues that the former governor of Kwara State had been accused of. However, the President was said to have been non-committal.
It is believed that the telephone call initiated by Obasanjo was not the first time the former president would intervene in the matter - Obasanjo had met with Buhari in South Africa, last Sunday, and sought his help in resolving the crisis in the ruling party.
He was in Zambia for the 22nd annual general meeting of the African Export-Import Bank, had travelled from there to South Africa to meet with President Buhari.
However the party's chiefs are still not in accord with the senate president, PUNCH says.
Saraki had during the week paid a well publicised visit to Obasanjo to seek his intervention in the crisis rocking the ruling party caused by his emergence as senate president.
However reports from PUNCH says the former president’s intervention has failed to yield the results desired by Saraki and his camp.
It was gathered that shortly after Saraki’s visit to the former president, Obasanjo made a telephone call to Buhari advising him to make up with Saraki. The former president had reportedly told the president to work with Saraki and let the party deal with all the disciplinary issues that the former governor of Kwara State had been accused of. However, the President was said to have been non-committal.
It is believed that the telephone call initiated by Obasanjo was not the first time the former president would intervene in the matter - Obasanjo had met with Buhari in South Africa, last Sunday, and sought his help in resolving the crisis in the ruling party.
He was in Zambia for the 22nd annual general meeting of the African Export-Import Bank, had travelled from there to South Africa to meet with President Buhari.
However the party's chiefs are still not in accord with the senate president, PUNCH says.
