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Senate President Bukola Saraki has advised politicians and the media to stop “peddling empty speculations about his recent visits to the Presidential Villa and linking such visits to the request by the Buhari administration for approval of the National Assembly to get $29.9bn loan from foreign sources.”
The Senate President, through a statement issued on Thursday by his special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said that his recent meetings with President Muhammadu Buhari had nothing to do with the loan request.
The Senate President described the comments by some politicians on the loan issue “without any factual basis” as “unfortunate.”
Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, had warned Saraki not to join the Federal Government in ruining the country by supporting Buhari’s request for the foreign loan.
In a statement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, Fayose stated: “No matter how much he (Saraki) tries to warm himself into the hearts of the Aso Rock cabal, they can never love him and accept him into their fold.”
Saraki however said, “Like I once told the media, these politically-motivated commentaries are trivialising a serious national issue and presenting it as if it is a personal matter that can be decided at meetings between Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The National Assembly, which I head as Senate President, has taken a position on the issue as required of it by the laws of the land and legislative conventions.