Shehbaz should be PM, ‘else dark horse will emerge’

Vawda claims bidding of independents currently under way

ISLAMABAD:

 

Former senator Faisal Vawda has said that if Nawaz Sharif becomes the prime minister and PPP does not become a part of the alliance, the firecracker will go off in six months – suggesting that the government will not last for even six months against the constitutional mandate of five years.

In a conversation with a private TV channel, the politician credited PPP Co-chairman Asif Zardari for the party’s “win-win position”. “A coalition government will be formed and the PPP will take over everything,” he claimed

Vawda said that he had already said that it was an issue of horoscopes.

“If the father [Nawaz] becomes the prime minister, the daughter [Maryam Nawaz] will not become the chief minister. If the daughter will be the chief minister, the father will not be the prime minister.”

After that, Vawda said, there are “more chances that Shehbaz Sharif should be the prime minister, otherwise a dark horse [an unexpected winner] will emerge”.

In response to a question regarding independent members of the National Assembly supported by the PTI, he said that under the judicial selection 2024, a reference to the general elections, if “you catch 93, then 30 are those who are not in their favour”.

“They are always independent, they come and wherever the government is formed, they go there.”
Vawda said so reduce the 30 and shift them towards the PML-N, adding that of the remaining 63, “more or less 30 or 35 will be sold”.

“Their bidding is under way. Even as we speak, final bids are due in the next 72 hours.”