The story of a politician is rarely told like a nursery rhyme, but Bukola Saraki’s career repeatedly sounds like one: full of squabbles, reconciliations, and lessons for the next generation. He has been Senate President, opposition strategist, and, perhaps most enduringly, a patient gardener of youthful ambition in Kwara.
In July 2025, Saraki presided over a stormy reconciliation at the PDP headquarters in Abuja. Leaders clashed over the position of national secretary. The 100th National Executive Committee meeting nearly collapsed until Saraki coaxed compromise. By nightfall, Samuel Anyanwu was affirmed, and peace was stitched back into the party’s fabric.
Saraki’s hand in that fragile truce was less about preserving titles and more about modeling a skill usually missing in Nigerian politics: negotiation with grace. For young Kwarans watching from afar, it was a practical tutorial showing that political capital is built through sacrifice, persuasion, and a stubborn belief in unity.