The Federal Government on Wednesday said that the defection of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was a great relief to the party.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed stated this while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja, said the Senate President has become the greatest obstacle to the government.

He said that if Dr. Saraki was not a member of the APC “I don’t think the government would have suffered more as regards the delay in passing the budget. The Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki has behaved all along as if he was a member of the opposition.”

He said the APC stands to lose nothing with the defection of the Senate President and his loyalists adding that the APC in the state will grow stronger with his exit.

He also said that the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in the state have also defected to APC in disapproval of Saraki’s coming back to the party.

•Culled from a Vanguard report