Former Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki has been dismissed by the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Kogi State as not having enough power to save the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.

Dr. Tom Ohikere, Secretary of the APC Campaign Council’s Media and Publicity Committee, who spoke at a media briefing in Abuja, said Saraki was never a close friend of the state’s people to carry out an impossible task.

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He said Saraki doesn’t have what it would take to promote the kind of reconciliation that can save the state’s PDP, which might be expected to save it from defeat in the governorship election next month.

PDP National Chairman Prince Uche Secondus last Friday named Dr. Saraki as the chairman of a five-man reconciliation committee, charged with the task of reuniting Jonathan and Idris with the PDP chapters in their home states.

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Ohikere said: “What does Bukola Saraki know about Kogi politics? He never established any warm relationship with our people, even the state chapter of the PDP, not even when he was Senate President. What did the state chapter of the PDP benefit from him?

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“Now all of a sudden, they want the PDP in Kogi State to defer to him, a party that is desperately struggling to find its bearing amid a surge of defections and altercations.

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