Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has been appointed as the National Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the party’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Thursday.
Saraki will replace deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who held the position until the defection of Saraki and other top All Progressive Congress (APC) members to the PDP.
The arrival of Saraki was heralded by loud ovation as he was led into the venue of the meeting by PDP national chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, and other top leaders of the party.
Rabiu Kwankwaso, Sokoto State governor Aminu Tambuwal and Benue State governor Samuel Ortom were all present at the meeting.
The NEC meeting attended by the four former members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was in a celebratory mood as the politicians exchanged banters.
Apart from the former APC chiefs, the meeting hall had key figures of the PDP, including governors, lawmakers and some of the presidential aspirants.
