For having your primary, secondary schools education in Lagos, we will support you, Lagos PDP endorses Saraki

*As Senate President cautions Party delegates against colleague aspirants

*Says aspirants promising Nigeria restructuring are deceptive

*Pledges to help Lagos PDP take over Lagos from Tinubu

*No government can create enough jobs to tackle unemployment – Saraki

By Our Correspondent

“What you have been fighting for many years, you will have it during the coming election because you now have somebody that has intention and charisma to deal with those disturbing you. I have a medicine of the man who regards himself as godfather terrorising Lagos State. We have their formula, come next year, PDP will take over Lagos.”

Lagso State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may have found a cogent reason to make as its favourite candidate the embattled Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who is aspiring for the presidential ticket of the party for the next general elections.

This was as Saraki visited Lagos on Monday as part of his nationwide tour seeking PDP delegates’ support to vote him at the coming presidential primaries as flagbearer of the party.

Saraki had earlier told party delegates in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Sunday that Nigeria needed a digital, youthful candidate from 2019 and urged them to vote for him at the coming primaries.

Accompanied by his Campaign DG Dr. Doyin Okupe, Senator Dino Melaye, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, Senator Bukola Saraki said he was in Lagos to solicit for the support of the Lagos delegates ahead of the party’s presidential primaries and assured them that he will do everything within his reach to ensure PDP produce the next governor of the state.

Promising the state PDP that he had the medicine of the man terrorizing Lagos State and he will help them take over the state from him in 2019, Saraki secured endorsement of the delegates in the Centre of Excellence as their favourite candidate for the presidency.

Saraki said: “What you have been fighting for many years, you will have it during the coming election because you now have somebody that has intention and charisma to deal with those disturbing you.

“I have a medicine of the man who regards himself as godfather terrorising Lagos State. We have their formula, come next year, PDP will take over Lagos.”

He warned Nigerians to be mindful of presidential aspirants promising to restructure Nigeria, if elected president.

The Senate President said restructuring agenda was not something a president could single-handedly promise as it required the input of the legislature.

He said:  “Many aspirants will tell you that they will restructure Nigeria, but don’t let them deceive you because restructuring is not something only a president can do because certain laws also need to change.

“So you need a president that has political sagacity to carry people along. But there are very few aspirants today that possess such charisma. Once I assume office, I will devolve more powers to the state.’’

On unemployment, Saraki said no government could create enough jobs, stressing that it was only private sector that could do so.

He said: “You need a president that can speak private sector language. So, this is the time to elect the right president to lead the country.

“In Nigeria, we are at the crossroads and we need to save the soul of this country because we have not been so divided like we are currently across the country.”

Responding on behalf of the Lagos PDP, Acting Chairman of Lagos State PDP, Alhaji Wali Hassan, assured the Senate President of their support, even as he commended him for the love he had for the party in Lagos.

“As you can all see, he had his primary and secondary school education in Lagos and his wife is a Lagosian, so we are going to support him,” Hassan said.

On the visitor’s entourage were former Minister of State for Power, Alhaji Mohammed Wakili; immediate past governor of Kogi State, Captain Idris Wada; Dr. Doyin Okupe, former Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs to former President Goodluck Jonathan; Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye; and Chairman of the now rested nPDP, Kawu Baraje, among others.