Senate President, Bukola Saraki paid a visit to Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo at his Hiltop villa in Abeokuta today, June 19, 2015.

Bukola was accompanied by
Oyinlola, Andy Uba and more.
A source who was part of the meeting informed
PREMIUM TIMES
that the Senate President was in Abeokuta to beg Mr. Obasanjo to
reconcile him with President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All
Progressives Congress, APC.
Mr. Saraki emerged as the president of the Senate
against the decision of APC leaders. He was also elected when most
Senators from the APC were at the International Conference Centre
waiting to hold a meeting with Mr. Buhari to discuss the election of the
Senate president and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
It was also gathered that Mr. Saraki lamented that although the party leaders
have stated that they have accepted his emergence, there was “complete
communication breakdown between him, the president and the party”.
The
national chairman of the APC, John Oyegun, had abruptly cancelled a
scheduled meeting with Mr. Saraki last week without giving another
appointment.
Likewise, we also gathered that Mr. Saraki had tried
severally to meet with Mr. Buhari after his emergence, but was always
denied audience.
Another source in the presidency informed us
that the President was angry with Mr. Saraki and the management of the
national assembly for going ahead with their election despite adequate
knowledge of an invitation for a meeting with Mr. Saraki and his
colleagues.
“The president considered it as a mark of disrespect
for his office for Saraki to ignore an invitation to meet with him and
his colleagues,” our source said.
In his response, Mr. Obasanjo promised to do his best to “ensure communication between all parties”.
However, the spokesperson for the president, Garba Shehu, said the Senate president did not seek to meet with Mr. Buhari.
“I
am not aware of any request for a meeting, the president would have
seen him, he represents a key institution in our democracy,” he said.
Calls to Mr. Saraki and his aide, Bamikole Omishore, were not answered.
However,
the former president in his usual self also joked with the delegation,
saying “ you children of nowadays only run to elders when you have
finished making the damage”.
PREMIUM TIMES also learnt that after
he was informed of the visit, Mr. Obasanjo called Mr. Buhari to inform
him that Mr. Saraki is leading a delegation of Senators to his Abeokuta
home and Mr. Buhari simply said “you have to see them now, are they not
your boys?”.
Among Mr. Saraki’s delegation include former governor of
Gombe state, Danjuma Goje, Andy Uba, former Zamfara governor, Ahmed
Sani, Olagunsoye Oyinlola and others.
Culled from CCNA