A public commentator, Farooq Kperogi, has branded former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, “a self-conceited, thoughtless, and narcissistic political bully”.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Saraki and Bauchi State governor Bala Mohammed are to be presented as northern consensus candidates ahead of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential primary in respect of the 2023 elections.
Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, had dismissed the report on consensus agreement as false. In a similar vein, another PDP presidential aspirant, Mohammed Hayatu-Deen, at the weekend faulted the process that produced Saraki and Mohammed, as northern consensus candidates.
Wading into the matter, Kperogi was particular about Saraki, questioning why the former Kwara State Governor needs a consensus to emerge the PDP’s presidential flagbearer.
He claimed that Saraki’s political star has dimmed, adding that the presidential hopeful rode on the back of his father’s goodwill to occupy public offices.
“How can a self-conceited, thoughtless, and narcissistic political bully like Saraki who has shown a chilly disdain for fairness in the representational politics of his own state expect to benefit from the same ideal at the national level?” Kperogi said in a piece on Sunday night.
“Most importantly, though, why does Saraki need “consensus” to emerge as PDP presidential candidate? Why is he in dread of actual democratic contest against other contenders in a primary election?
“I think it’s because he realizes that his political star has dimmed irretrievably in both Kwara State and nationally, so he wants to get his political desires through dishonest shortcuts.
“For years, he’d ridden on the coattails of his late dad, who was a way better politician than he is, but the coattails are now threadbare and past their sell-by date.”
