Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday said Asif Ali Zardari had once called him a future president of Pakistan. When I was sentenced by a judge of an accountability court, Asif Ali Zardari, now the president of Pakistan, was present in that court and told the judge that he [judge] was sentencing a future president,” Gilani said in a ceremony to mark the regularisation of 490 PTV employees. Gilani said Zardari had called him the future president because PPP leaders and workers always considered Benazir Bhutto to be their prime minister.