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Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by bilms(m): 4:01pm On Jun 04, 2015
BEFORE YOU VOTE SARAKI AS THE SENATE PRESIDENT
"Before Bukola Saraki is Coronated as Senate President of the 8th National Assembly: A word of Caution to Career Politicians in the Nigerian Senate

By:

Dr. Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi

Bukola Saraki has been in the news lately. The fellow I understand wants to be the next President of the Senate and the Chairman of the National Assembly. As a Nigerian and a Senator, he has the right to vie for the office in question. His colleagues in the Senate however have a moral duty to reject him unless of course they are as corrupt and criminally inclined as he is.

Before we go further, I must introduce myself. My names are Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi, a clinical psychologist and a scion of the Imam Fulanis of Ilorin Emirate, Kwara state. I have witnessed first hand Bukola’s maladministration in my state. The tales are too many. I will list just a few. Before I do that, I will also make a detour to write about Bukola’s sordid past long before he became Governor of Kwara state – a gift his daddy gave him before he clocked 41 in 2003. It will become apparent in a little while that Bukola is not cut from any moral fiber.

Bukola Saraki and his immediate younger sister, Gbemisola Saraki have always lived on daddy’s dime. In the mid 1990s, Bukola Saraki and his sister were regular visitors to Criminal Investigation Department at Panti, Yaba, Lagos, over allegations of theft leveled against the two by the Nigerian government under General Sani Abacha. It is a blatant lie by Bukola to claim that former President Goodluck Jonathan set the EFCC after him because he moved a motion on fuel subsidy – Bukola was only trying to be clever by half. We shall come to that later. It was at CID Panti that Bukola Saraki met one of his later sidekicks, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Lanre Jimoh (popularly called Lanre Olopa). ACP Lanre Jimoh was a junior officer during this period and he went out of his way because of his Ilorin kinship to assist Bukola Saraki maneuver the Nigerian police muddle. I am not aware that the case was ever closed. It was more like it was hushed like everything else in Bukola Saraki’s life. In the mid 1990s when this happened, was Abacha also witch hunting Bukola Saraki?

This is what actually happened from our findings at the Kwara Restoration Project. After Bukola Saraki spent countless years trying to be a medical doctor in England, he finally managed to pass the medical exams in 1988. This, after spending a decade in British higher education in the pursuit of a medical degree. In 1989, Bukola did his House job as a medical officer at one of the hospitals in England and moved back to Nigeria to join Société Générale Bank in 1990 as the Vice Chairman representing his father’s interest. Bukola continued what he knows how to do best – spending other peoples’ money. He didn’t care that there were many other stakeholders at Société Générale Bank - Shareholders, Employees and Customers, he dipped his hands into the Bank’s purse voraciously and his little sister Gbemisola partook in the bazaar. When Abacha took over, he was intent on punishing the bank robbers of the day, Bukola Saraki was one of them and thus Bukola became a regular visitor to CID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

Abacha’s death saved Bukola from going to jail but Société Générale could not be rescued, when the late Admiral Muhammad Lawal, former Governor of Kwara state, fell out with Dr. Olusola Saraki, the Sarakis liquidated Societe Generale to finance Bukola’s governorship campaign. Since then, Société Générale Bank, Nigeria Limited became history until recently when Bukola in cahoots with some others invested in Heritage Bank through proxies.

When Société Générale became insolvent, a lot of hardworking Nigerian families lost their entire savings and many lost their lives in the process. As a clinical psychologist I know that when we talk about money, we ought to go beyond the paper and look underneath to see the men and women whose lives depend on it. Bukola Saraki and his family stole depositors’ money and in the process destroyed millions of lives in the process. These lives are not mere statistics, they are someone’s son and daughter, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, father, mother, mother in law, father in law etc. and the most prominent amongst these individuals is Austin Jay Jay Okocha who lost a considerable amount of money in Société Générale. Later, as Governor of Kwara state, Bukola sought to bribe Jay Jay Okocha with some type of arrangement at the Kwara Football Academy which he established with Kwara state money but later converted into a private concern. There is more to that deal than the scope of this paper will allow.

When Bukola became Kwara state Governor, he continued in his characteristic corrupt ways. He assumed that the Kwara treasury was an extension of Société Générale and daddy’s magnanimity. He dips his hand into the Kwara treasury at will and disregards government due process. Those who try to stand up against his impunity were dealt with mercilessly. Dr. Hezekiah Bamidele Oyedepo was one of those individuals. After the gentleman couldn’t stomach Bukola’s excesses any longer, he transferred his services to the Federal Government under President Olusegun Obasanjo as a Director in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. There are countless others who are not so fortunate.

A case in point was when Bukola Saraki, drunk on power slapped Alhaji Saka Isemin, a commissioner under his administration for being more loyal to Bukola Saraki’s own father than to Bukola.

Bukola’s eight years reign as Governor of Kwara state was typified by stealing and the conversion of state properties into his own using cronies such as Kamaldeen Ajibade, the former Kwara state Attorney General and one non Kwara, Yomi Ogunsola. These two individuals more than others within Bukola’s corrupt inner cycle hold many of Kwara’s converted assets.

I will list some of them here; Kwara Cashew Company, Kwara Tourist Kitchen, Patigi Regatta Motel, Kwara Advanced Diagnostic Centre (Now renamed Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre), the Shonga Farms was largely financed by Kwara under a very shadowy arrangement. The Kwara mall and countless other state properties were converted by Bukola Saraki.

Now, some of us at the Kwara Restoration Project are not averse to entrepreneurship. In fact, we welcome it. What we are averse to is stealing of government properties and converting same into personal estates. By all means, if Bukola Saraki makes his own money and invests such in Kwara state, we welcome it and we perhaps may even celebrate it. But in this case, we have incontrovertible evidence of Bukola’s daylight robbery of Kwara state. We were fortunate through our contacts at the corporate affairs commission to get certified copies of how these companies were transferred to the two cronies earlier mentioned. We took it upon ourselves to hand these documents to our senior ulamas (Islamic scholars) in Ilorin to act on and call Bukola to order but they sat on it. During the just concluded elections, the opposition PDP got the documents from us and they sought to publish same in the Punch Newspapers but the Punch Editor told them that Bukola had already got a court to give him a spurious injunction restraining all Nigerian media, print, broadcast, etc against publishing any negative article on his person even if they are true. On this issue of converted Kwara state assets, anyone that doubts the veracity of my claims should please make an independent verification from the CAC in Abuja.

Bukola Saraki has also been linked with Arson in Kwara state. Shortly after Bukola left office as Governor of Kwara state and his personality conflict with former President Goodluck Jonathan is simmering over Jonathan’s refusal to honour his side of the bargain for Saraki’s assistance during Jonathan’s 2011 election as President; Bukola panicked when the EFCC began to go over the Kwara state financials between 2003 and 2011. Bukola in cahoots with some of his foot soldiers like Otunba Tunde Morakinyo organized some cult boys to burn the computer office of the Kwara state Ministry of Finance. The cultists who carried out this operation did not cart away anything besides burning down the documents. It is noteworthy that they went with a generator to perpetrate their criminal act. One security guard who was not in the know of things and tried to resist was shot dead. The police commissioner at the time, an elderly gentleman from the eastern part of Nigeria was in the know and perhaps a few others.

It is also important to point out that the heroic security guard that was killed crossed over to the state police command that is directly opposite the scene of the crime and was refused help before taking matters into his own hands. May his soul rest in peace with his Maker. The state police command is literally opposite the Kwara State Ministry of Finance and yet the cultist stayed for over one hour burning and destroying documents in the middle of the night with no official state power confronting them. The police commissioner who went along with this nefarious act was later shot dead by hired assassins on his way to his village during the Christmas of 2012. I do not know whether Bukola was involved but the coincidence was too ominous.

When Bukola Saraki left office physically in 2011 as Kwara Governor, he made sure to install a placeholder in his stead thus guaranteeing him ruling by proxy. Bukola is the only Nigerian politician who is serving an unconstitutional fourth term because AbdulFatah Ahmed is tied to his apron strings and cannot make any independent decision on his own. Directors and permanent secretaries in the Kwara state civil service have been known to route memos to Bukola behind the back of the placeholder AbdulFatah Ahmed. This is a feat that even his godfather, former President Olusegun Obasanjo could not pull off.

In essence therefore, distinguished Senators of the 8th National Assembly, you are advised to stay clear from coronating Bukola Saraki as your Senate President. He does not typify any decent, democratic values. He is greedy, corrupt, self absorbed, violent, autocratic and does not have regard for the basic tenets of African culture and tradition in the way he treats those older than him with disrespect until lately.

The only reason you will elect Bukola Saraki as your President is only if he is just like you men and women who populate the Senate chamber, in which case, you would have found a perfect replica of yourselves.

Dr. Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi is a clinical psychologist and writes from Ilorin, Kwara state"

Culled from comments thread on a post in The Punch Newspapers

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by banito1(m): 4:11pm On Jun 04, 2015
What is this
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by bilms(m): 5:02pm On Jun 04, 2015
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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by kart042000(m): 9:14pm On Jun 04, 2015
The facts speak volume
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by ochejoseph(m): 9:40pm On Jun 04, 2015
Hmmmmmm "change"

May God help Kwara state
May God Bless Nigeria
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by AWONEYAN(m): 10:45pm On Jun 04, 2015
Bukola saraki has no good records even in kwara state...charity begings at home they say....
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Dannyset(m): 11:13pm On Jun 04, 2015
All these just because u don't want this man to become the Senate President? This is the left over of the hate, slander and rubbish that characterised the past election. Am sure its not going to leave us soon. Since we aint the ones that's going to vote them, pls take ur wahala to the Senators and leave us out of this.

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by oluwadare26(m): 11:30pm On Jun 04, 2015
The same way you criticized Buhari, sponsored hate campaign against PMB, now its Bukola turn..I pray to God that u and the others who don't want him on dat president seat will be disappointed

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by tomakint: 11:38pm On Jun 04, 2015
He who has ears (among the Senators) should take this 'Voice of Reason' to heart, Bukola Saraki has no business being the President of the Senate, he is a bloody rogue and a terrible arrogant human being not fit to be a leader.

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by bilms(m): 11:46pm On Jun 04, 2015
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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by delpee(f): 11:59pm On Jun 04, 2015
Really? shocked
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Kog45(m): 12:09am On Jun 05, 2015
bilms:
BEFORE YOU VOTE SARAKI AS THE SENATE PRESIDENT
"Before Bukola Saraki is Coronated as Senate President of the 8th National Assembly: A word of Caution to Career Politicians in the Nigerian Senate

By:

Dr. Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi













Bukola Saraki has been in the news lately. The fellow I understand wants to be the next President of the Senate and the Chairman of the National Assembly. As a Nigerian and a Senator, he has the right to vie for the office in question. His colleagues in the Senate however have a moral duty to reject him unless of course they are as corrupt and criminally inclined as he is.


Before we go further, I must introduce myself. My names are Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi, a clinical psychologist and a scion of the Imam Fulanis of Ilorin Emirate, Kwara state. I have witnessed first hand Bukola’s maladministration in my state. The tales are too many. I will list just a few. Before I do that, I will also make a detour to write about Bukola’s sordid past long before he became Governor of Kwara state – a
gift his daddy gave him before he clocked 41 in 2003. It will become apparent in a little while that Bukola is not cut from any moral fiber
Saraki and his immediate younger sister, Gbemisola Saraki have always lived on daddy’s dime. In the mid 1990s, Bukola Saraki and his sister were regular visitors to Criminal Investigation Department at Panti, Yaba, Lagos, over allegations of theft leveled against the two by the Nigerian government under General Sani Abacha. It is a blatant lie by Bukola to claim that former President Goodluck Jonathan set the EFCC after him because he moved a motion on fuel subsidy –
Bukola was only trying to be clever by half. We shall come to that later. It was at CID Panti that Bukola Saraki met one of his later sidekicks, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Lanre Jimoh (popularly called Lanre Olopa). ACP Lanre Jimoh was a junior officer during this
period and he went out of his way because of his Ilorin kinship to assist Bukola Saraki maneuver the Nigerian police muddle. I am not aware that the case was ever closed. It was more like it was hushed like everything else in Bukola Saraki’s life. In the mid 1990s when this happened, was Abacha also witch hunting Bukola Saraki?
This is what actually happened from o findings at the Kwara Restoration Project. After Bukola Saraki spent countless years trying to be a medical doctor in England, he finally managed to pass the medical exams in 1988. This, after spending a decade in British higher education in the pursuit of a medical degree. In 1989, Bukola did his House job as a medical
officer at one of the hospitals in England and moved back to Nigeria to join Société Générale Bank in 1990 as the Vice Chairman representing his father’s interest. Bukola continued what he knows how to do best – spending other peoples’ money. He didn’t care that there were many other stakeholders at Société Générale Bank - Shareholders, Employees
and Customers, he dipped his hands into the Bank’s purse voraciously and his little sister Gbemisola partook in the bazaar. When Abacha took over, he was intent on punishing the bank robbers of the day, Bukola Saraki was one of them and thus Bukola became a regular visitor to CID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.







Abacha’s death saved Bukola from going to jail but Société Générale could not be rescued, when the late Admiral Muhammad Lawal, former Governor of Kwara state, fell out with Dr. Olusola Saraki, the Sarakis liquidated Societe Generale to finance Bukola’s governorship campaign. Since then, Société Générale Bank, Nigeria Limited became history until recently when Bukola in cahoots with some othersinvested in Heritage Bank through proxies.
When Société Générale became insolvent, a lot of hardworking Nigerian families lost their entire savings and many lost their lives in the process. As a clinical psychologist I know that when we talkabout money, we ought to go beyond the paper and look underneath to see the men and women whose lives depend on it. Bukola Saraki and his family stole depositors’ money and in the process destroyed millions of lives in the process. These lives are not mere statistics, they are someone’s son and daughter, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, father,
mother, mother in law, father in law etc. and the most prominent amongst these individuals is Austin Jay Jay Okocha who lost a considerable amount of money in Société Générale. Later, as Governor of Kwara state, Bukola sought to bribe Jay Jay Okocha with some type of arrangement at the Kwara Football Academy which he established withKwara state money but later converted into a private concern. There is more to that deal than the scope of this paper will allow.
When Bukola became Kwara state Governor, he continued in his characteristic corrupt ways. He assumed that the Kwara treasury was an extension of Société Générale and daddy’s magnanimity. He dips his hand into the Kwara treasury at will anddisregards government due process. Those who try to stand up against his impunity were dealt with mercilessly. Dr. Hezekiah Bamidele Oyedepo was one of those individuals. After the gentleman couldn’t stomach Bukola’s excesses any longer, he transferred his services to the
Federal Government under President Olusegun Obasanjo as a Director in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. There are countless others who are not so fortunate.
A case in point was when Bukola Saraki, drunk on power slapped Alhaji Saka Isemin, a commissioner under hisadministration for being more loyal to Bukola Saraki’s own father than to Bukola.
Bukola’s eight years reign as Governor of Kwara state was typified by stealing and the conversion of state properties into his own using cronies such as Ajibade, the former Kwara state Attorney General and one non Kwara, Yomi Ogunsola. These two individuals more than others within Bukola’s corrupt inner cycle hold many of Kwara’s converted asset
I will list some of them here; Kwara Cashew Company, Kwara Tourist Kitchen, Patigi Regatta Motel, Kwara Advanced Diagnostic Centre (Now renamed Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre), the Shonga Farms was largely financed by Kwara under a very shadowyarrangement. The Kwara mall and countless other state properties were converted by Bukola Saraki.
Now, some of us at the Kwara Restoration Project are not averse to entrepreneurship. In fact, we welcome it. What we are averse to is stealing of government properties and converting same into personal estates. By all means, if Bukola Saraki makes his own money and invests such in Kwara state, we welcome it and we perhaps may even celebrate it. But in this case, we have incontrovertible evidence of Bukola’s daylight robbery of Kwara state. We wer fortunate through our contacts at the corporate affairs commission to get certified copies of how these companies were transferred to the two cronies earlier mentioned. We took it upon ourselves to hand these documents to our senior ulamas (Islamic scholars) in Ilorin to act on and call Bukola to order but they sat on it. During the just
concluded elections, the opposition PDP got the documents from us and they sought to publish same in the Punch Newspapers but the Punch Editor told them that Bukola had already got a court to give him a spurious injunction restraining all Nigerian media, print, broadcast, etc against publishing any

negative article on his person even if they are true. On this issue of converted Kwara state assets, anyone that doubts the veracity of my claims should please make an independent verification from the CAC in Abuja
Bukola Saraki has also been linked with Arson in Kwara state. Shortly after Bukola left office as Governor of Kwara state and his personality conflict with former President Goodluck Jonathan is simmering over Jonathan’s refusal to honour his side of the bargain for Saraki’s assistance during Jonathan’s
2011 election as President; Bukola panicked when the EFCC began to go over the Kwara state financials between 2003 and 2011. Bukola in cahoots with some of his foot soldiers like Otunba Tunde Morakinyo organized some cult boys to burn the computer office of the Kwara state Ministry of Finance. The cultists who carried out this operation did not cart away anything besides burning down the documents. It is noteworthy that they went with a generator to perpetrate their criminal act. One security guard who was not in the know of things and tried to resist was shot dead. The police commissioner at the time, an elderly gentleman from the
eastern part of Nigeria was in the know and perhaps a few others.
It is also important to point out that the heroic security guard that was killed crossed over to the state police command that is directly opposite th scene of the crime and was refused help before taking matters into his own hands. May his soul rest in peace with his Maker. The state police command is literally opposite the Kwara State Ministry of Finance and yet the cultist stayed for over one hour burning and destroying
documents in the middle of the night with no official state power confronting them. The police commissioner who went along with this nefarious act was later shot dead by hired assassins on his way to his village during the Christmas of 2012. I do not know whether Bukola was
involved but the coincidence was too ominous.
When Bukola Saraki left office physically in 2011 as Kwara Governor, he made sure to install a placeholder in his stead thus guaranteeing him ruling by proxy. Bukola is the only Nigerian politician who is serving an unconstitutional fourth term because AbdulFatah Ahmed is tied to his apron strings and cannot make any independent decision on his own.Directors and permanent secretaries in the Kwara state civil service have been known to route memos to Bukola behind the back of the placeholder AbdulFatah Ahmed. This is a feat that even his godfather, former President Olusegun Obasanjo could not pull off.
In essence therefore, distinguished Senators of the 8th National Assembly, you are advised to stay clear from coronating Bukola Saraki as your Senate President. He does not typify any decent, democratic values. He is greedy, corrupt, self absorbed, violent, autocratic and does not have regard for the basic tenets of African culture and tradition in the way he treats those older than him with disrespect until lately.
The only reason you will elect Bukola Saraki as your President is only if he is just like you men and women who populate the Senate chamber, in which case, you would have found a perfect replica of yourselves.
Dr. Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi is a clinical psychologist and writes from Ilorin, Kwara state"
Culled from comments thread on a post in The Punch Newspapers
It is a pity Dr Abdullahi bcs u epistle shows that u are not happy with this Man and d reason is simple.Baba Saraki(Oloye)used your Father's generation like a playing card and his son Bukola is using your own generation like a card too,which u cannot do anything about it,your Father's generation and your own generation have mortgaged their life to Saraki dynasty.I pray that your son's life will not be mortgaged by Bukola's son.Please this is not d time for story bcs majority of kwarans still want this man bcs last election reflected it.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Kog45(m): 12:14am On Jun 05, 2015
bilms:
BEFORE YOU VOTE SARAKI AS THE SENATE PRESIDENT
"Before Bukola Saraki is Coronated as Senate President of the 8th National Assembly: A word of Caution to Career Politicians in the Nigerian Senate

By:

Dr. Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi













Bukola Saraki has been in the news lately. The fellow I understand wants to be the next President of the Senate and the Chairman of the National Assembly. As a Nigerian and a Senator, he has the right to vie for the office in question. His colleagues in the Senate however have a moral duty to reject him unless of course they are as corrupt and criminally inclined as he is.


Before we go further, I must introduce myself. My names are Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi, a clinical psychologist and a scion of the Imam Fulanis of Ilorin Emirate, Kwara state. I have witnessed first hand Bukola’s maladministration in my state. The tales are too many. I will list just a few. Before I do that, I will also make a detour to write about Bukola’s sordid past long before he became Governor of Kwara state – a
gift his daddy gave him before he clocked 41 in 2003. It will become apparent in a little while that Bukola is not cut from any moral fiber
Saraki and his immediate younger sister, Gbemisola Saraki have always lived on daddy’s dime. In the mid 1990s, Bukola Saraki and his sister were regular visitors to Criminal Investigation Department at Panti, Yaba, Lagos, over allegations of theft leveled against the two by the Nigerian government under General Sani Abacha. It is a blatant lie by Bukola to claim that former President Goodluck Jonathan set the EFCC after him because he moved a motion on fuel subsidy –
Bukola was only trying to be clever by half. We shall come to that later. It was at CID Panti that Bukola Saraki met one of his later sidekicks, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Lanre Jimoh (popularly called Lanre Olopa). ACP Lanre Jimoh was a junior officer during this
period and he went out of his way because of his Ilorin kinship to assist Bukola Saraki maneuver the Nigerian police muddle. I am not aware that the case was ever closed. It was more like it was hushed like everything else in Bukola Saraki’s life. In the mid 1990s when this happened, was Abacha also witch hunting Bukola Saraki?
This is what actually happened from o findings at the Kwara Restoration Project. After Bukola Saraki spent countless years trying to be a medical doctor in England, he finally managed to pass the medical exams in 1988. This, after spending a decade in British higher education in the pursuit of a medical degree. In 1989, Bukola did his House job as a medical
officer at one of the hospitals in England and moved back to Nigeria to join Société Générale Bank in 1990 as the Vice Chairman representing his father’s interest. Bukola continued what he knows how to do best – spending other peoples’ money. He didn’t care that there were many other stakeholders at Société Générale Bank - Shareholders, Employees
and Customers, he dipped his hands into the Bank’s purse voraciously and his little sister Gbemisola partook in the bazaar. When Abacha took over, he was intent on punishing the bank robbers of the day, Bukola Saraki was one of them and thus Bukola became a regular visitor to CID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.







Abacha’s death saved Bukola from going to jail but Société Générale could not be rescued, when the late Admiral Muhammad Lawal, former Governor of Kwara state, fell out with Dr. Olusola Saraki, the Sarakis liquidated Societe Generale to finance Bukola’s governorship campaign. Since then, Société Générale Bank, Nigeria Limited became history until recently when Bukola in cahoots with some othersinvested in Heritage Bank through proxies.
When Société Générale became insolvent, a lot of hardworking Nigerian families lost their entire savings and many lost their lives in the process. As a clinical psychologist I know that when we talkabout money, we ought to go beyond the paper and look underneath to see the men and women whose lives depend on it. Bukola Saraki and his family stole depositors’ money and in the process destroyed millions of lives in the process. These lives are not mere statistics, they are someone’s son and daughter, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, father,
mother, mother in law, father in law etc. and the most prominent amongst these individuals is Austin Jay Jay Okocha who lost a considerable amount of money in Société Générale. Later, as Governor of Kwara state, Bukola sought to bribe Jay Jay Okocha with some type of arrangement at the Kwara Football Academy which he established withKwara state money but later converted into a private concern. There is more to that deal than the scope of this paper will allow.
When Bukola became Kwara state Governor, he continued in his characteristic corrupt ways. He assumed that the Kwara treasury was an extension of Société Générale and daddy’s magnanimity. He dips his hand into the Kwara treasury at will anddisregards government due process. Those who try to stand up against his impunity were dealt with mercilessly. Dr. Hezekiah Bamidele Oyedepo was one of those individuals. After the gentleman couldn’t stomach Bukola’s excesses any longer, he transferred his services to the
Federal Government under President Olusegun Obasanjo as a Director in the Federal Ministry of Water Resources. There are countless others who are not so fortunate.
A case in point was when Bukola Saraki, drunk on power slapped Alhaji Saka Isemin, a commissioner under hisadministration for being more loyal to Bukola Saraki’s own father than to Bukola.
Bukola’s eight years reign as Governor of Kwara state was typified by stealing and the conversion of state properties into his own using cronies such as Ajibade, the former Kwara state Attorney General and one non Kwara, Yomi Ogunsola. These two individuals more than others within Bukola’s corrupt inner cycle hold many of Kwara’s converted asset
I will list some of them here; Kwara Cashew Company, Kwara Tourist Kitchen, Patigi Regatta Motel, Kwara Advanced Diagnostic Centre (Now renamed Harmony Advanced Diagnostic Centre), the Shonga Farms was largely financed by Kwara under a very shadowyarrangement. The Kwara mall and countless other state properties were converted by Bukola Saraki.
Now, some of us at the Kwara Restoration Project are not averse to entrepreneurship. In fact, we welcome it. What we are averse to is stealing of government properties and converting same into personal estates. By all means, if Bukola Saraki makes his own money and invests such in Kwara state, we welcome it and we perhaps may even celebrate it. But in this case, we have incontrovertible evidence of Bukola’s daylight robbery of Kwara state. We wer fortunate through our contacts at the corporate affairs commission to get certified copies of how these companies were transferred to the two cronies earlier mentioned. We took it upon ourselves to hand these documents to our senior ulamas (Islamic scholars) in Ilorin to act on and call Bukola to order but they sat on it. During the just
concluded elections, the opposition PDP got the documents from us and they sought to publish same in the Punch Newspapers but the Punch Editor told them that Bukola had already got a court to give him a spurious injunction restraining all Nigerian media, print, broadcast, etc against publishing any

negative article on his person even if they are true. On this issue of converted Kwara state assets, anyone that doubts the veracity of my claims should please make an independent verification from the CAC in Abuja
Bukola Saraki has also been linked with Arson in Kwara state. Shortly after Bukola left office as Governor of Kwara state and his personality conflict with former President Goodluck Jonathan is simmering over Jonathan’s refusal to honour his side of the bargain for Saraki’s assistance during Jonathan’s
2011 election as President; Bukola panicked when the EFCC began to go over the Kwara state financials between 2003 and 2011. Bukola in cahoots with some of his foot soldiers like Otunba Tunde Morakinyo organized some cult boys to burn the computer office of the Kwara state Ministry of Finance. The cultists who carried out this operation did not cart away anything besides burning down the documents. It is noteworthy that they went with a generator to perpetrate their criminal act. One security guard who was not in the know of things and tried to resist was shot dead. The police commissioner at the time, an elderly gentleman from the
eastern part of Nigeria was in the know and perhaps a few others.
It is also important to point out that the heroic security guard that was killed crossed over to the state police command that is directly opposite th scene of the crime and was refused help before taking matters into his own hands. May his soul rest in peace with his Maker. The state police command is literally opposite the Kwara State Ministry of Finance and yet the cultist stayed for over one hour burning and destroying
documents in the middle of the night with no official state power confronting them. The police commissioner who went along with this nefarious act was later shot dead by hired assassins on his way to his village during the Christmas of 2012. I do not know whether Bukola was
involved but the coincidence was too ominous.
When Bukola Saraki left office physically in 2011 as Kwara Governor, he made sure to install a placeholder in his stead thus guaranteeing him ruling by proxy. Bukola is the only Nigerian politician who is serving an unconstitutional fourth term because AbdulFatah Ahmed is tied to his apron strings and cannot make any independent decision on his own.Directors and permanent secretaries in the Kwara state civil service have been known to route memos to Bukola behind the back of the placeholder AbdulFatah Ahmed. This is a feat that even his godfather, former President Olusegun Obasanjo could not pull off.
In essence therefore, distinguished Senators of the 8th National Assembly, you are advised to stay clear from coronating Bukola Saraki as your Senate President. He does not typify any decent, democratic values. He is greedy, corrupt, self absorbed, violent, autocratic and does not have regard for the basic tenets of African culture and tradition in the way he treats those older than him with disrespect until lately.
The only reason you will elect Bukola Saraki as your President is only if he is just like you men and women who populate the Senate chamber, in which case, you would have found a perfect replica of yourselves.
Dr. Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi is a clinical psychologist and writes from Ilorin, Kwara state"
Culled from comments thread on a post in The Punch Newspapers
It is a pity Dr Abdullahi bcs u epistle shows that u are not happy with this Man and d reason is simple.Baba Saraki(Oloye)used your Father's generation like a playing card and his son Bukola is using your own generation like a card too,which u cannot do anything about it,your Father's generation and your own generation have mortgaged their life to Saraki dynasty.I pray that your son's life will not be mortgaged by Bukola's son.Please this is not d time for story bcs majority of kwarans still want this man and last election reflected it.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Rexology: 12:46am On Jun 05, 2015
Dannyset:
All these just because u don't want this man to become the Senate President? This is the left over of the hate, slander and rubbish that characterised the past election. Am sure its not going to leave us soon. Since we aint the ones that's going to vote them, pls take ur wahala to
the Senators and leave us out of this.

Was the write up addressed to you? Did you not read where he said" distinguish Sanators of 8th Assembly"? are you one of the Senators of the 8th Assembly?

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by coolitempa(f): 12:55am On Jun 05, 2015
Even as a supporter of APC....I cannot support this man as senate president.....his past is toooo..... shocked

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Nobody: 1:28am On Jun 05, 2015
Kog45:
It is a pity Dr Abdullahi bcs u epistle shows that u are not happy with this Man and d reason is simple.Baba Saraki(Oloye)used your Father's generation like a playing card and his son Bukola is using your own generation like a card too,which u cannot do anything about it,your Father's generation and your own generation have mortgaged their life to Saraki dynasty.I pray that your son's life will not be mortgaged by Bukola's son.Please this is not d time for story bcs majority of kwarans still want this man bcs last election reflected it.
You ain't typing that trash? Are you? Nobody here in kwara wants Saraki.

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Kog45(m): 2:40am On Jun 05, 2015
keyzid:
You ain't typing that trash? Are you? Nobody here in kwara wants Saraki.
If i'm typing thrash ,then u are typing rubbish.Nobody want Saraki in Kwara and APC swept all the political posts including Offa town that have been d stumbling block.My question is simple if Kwarans don't want him,why not vote him out d way Nigerians voted Jonathan out.Until people like u understand Kwara politics d way Fayose understand Ekiti politics,may be Saraki will stop ruling u or else u continue to serve him as u served his father.

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Nobody: 3:11am On Jun 05, 2015
Kog45:
If i'm typing thrash ,then u are typing rubbish.Nobody want Saraki in Kwara and APC swept all the political posts including Offa town that have been d stumbling block.My question is simple if Kwarans don't want him,why not vote him out d way Nigerians voted Jonathan out.Until people like u understand Kwara politics d way Fayose understand Ekiti politics,may be Saraki will stop ruling u or else u continue to serve him as u served his father.





If you understand the concept of Godfatherism, then you wouldn't hesitate to believe that Bukola holds open and close key of kwara state. On the assertion that he swept the election polls in kwara, that was possible due to the change everybody was clamoring for. The trend which was followed was the fact that no more PDP governance. Bukola his a clever man. He had seen the political revolution coming.....he never wasted time switching sides. All are games. So don't give me the rubbish conclusion that we in kwara here still want bukola. As I am writing you, I do not wish for the covetous bastard to get the senate house chairmanship post. Dig?

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Kog45(m): 9:50am On Jun 05, 2015
keyzid:
If you understand the concept of Godfatherism, then you wouldn't hesitate to believe that Bukola holds open and close key of kwara state. On the assertion that he swept the election polls in kwara, that was possible due to the change everybody was clamoring for. The trend which was followed was the fact that no more PDP governance. Bukola his a clever man. He had seen the political revolution coming.....he never wasted
time switching sides. All are games. So don't give me the rubbish conclusion that we in kwara here still want bukola. As I am writing you, I do not wish for the covetous bastard to get the senate house chairmanship post. Dig?
This is my major issue with u Kwarans,u don't face d reality but keep on giving excuses for failing to understand simple Kwara politics.Keep on ranting,by 2019 u people will still vote for dis Man bcs he think politically ahead of others in Kwara politics.Apart from Saraki tell me any serious minded politician in Kwara state.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by Kog45(m): 9:51am On Jun 05, 2015
keyzid:
If you understand the concept of Godfatherism, then you wouldn't hesitate to believe that Bukola holds open and close key of kwara state. On the assertion that he swept the election polls in kwara, that was possible due to the change everybody was clamoring for. The trend which was followed was the fact that no more PDP governance. Bukola his a clever man. He had seen the political revolution coming.....he never wasted
time switching sides. All are games. So don't give me the rubbish conclusion that we in kwara here still want bukola. As I am writing you, I do not wish for the covetous bastard to get the senate house chairmanship post. Dig?
This is my major issue with u Kwarans,u don't face d reality but keep on giving excuses for failing to understand simple Kwara politics.Keep on ranting,by 2019 u people will still vote for dis Man bcs he think ahead of others in Kwara politics.Apart from Saraki tell me any serious minded politician in Kwara state.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 11:46am On Jun 05, 2015
After reading through the Sponsored hate Article and not Submission, I took time to read each comment and am happy to have seen perfect comments which obviously justified audience were not Convinced because it's so Glaring that, it was a sponsored concoction to assassinate the image of Senator Bukola Saraki. Anyway, The writer can do better than this and not until he misinformed audience to give edge to the bench warmer, Sen. Ahmed Lawan.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 11:59am On Jun 05, 2015
What many people failed to realise when trying to assassinate image of any political stalwart in Nigeria is that, "You don't try to build the weak by Pulling down the strong",. If the writer thinks all this allegation is real, common senses will always draw pple like us back to ask why and how he delivered kwara 100 percent to APC Nigeria in the last election without any allegation of rigging exercise in kwara. We need to think beyond hate politics and not preaching hates, Peddling lies to defame unlawfully just to give edge to perfect personal interest at the expense of Nigerians.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 12:07pm On Jun 05, 2015
Saraki family is not the only prominent family in kwara but the question goes thus; How many prominent families in kwara are ready to do what the Saraki family is doing to assist people? They begin to go closer to people in kwara at the eve of election but only saraki leaves his doors open through out the 4years yet, you question his victory and acceptance in kwara.. I will implore the writer to urge other prominent kwarans to stand up and do the same or better than Saraki is doing to see if they won't get the result Saraki is getting in kwara.

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Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 12:22pm On Jun 05, 2015
I want people with sincere conscience here to question the writer, I mean Salient questions. Nigeria is not so weak to let lose Senator Bukola Saraki if he is truly guilty of the charges as claimed by the writer. I don't think we have any guilty and corrupt leader that will ever kick against FG when he knows he has Skeleton in his cupboard and that will definitely be used against him to clip him down but Senator Saraki cleared many doubts even when I was personally doubting if he is corrupt or not, He waged sane revolution against the ruling power and danced to the beat of the hunters (EFCC) and nothing found till date yet, We keep assuming fairy tales and dishing out concoction to assassinate his character to give Edge to Ahmed lawan that I never knew until the race of SP!
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 12:31pm On Jun 05, 2015
I don't know Senator Bukola Saraki Personal but in Nigeria today, We have known him to be one of the strong forces that fought bloodless and Sane revolution. Be as it may, You don't just begin to dent image of your own for the sake of personal interest and greed at the expense of Nigerians...It is better the writer come out plan to tell Nigerians who he is supporting to be the 8th SP than stylishly denting image of anyone to give edge to the person we don't even know until Ambition and Personal interest Set in.. I am not supporting Sen. Ahmed Lawan to be the next SP but I can't stoop to low to begin to sail falsehood around to dent his image when Nigerians already know who is who after the both Contenders had interview with ChannelsTv...
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 12:40pm On Jun 05, 2015
LOL, The last election said it all and they are here crying fowl claiming their Dad owe Okocha money, Its possible to owe Igbo man money for 24hrs without crying? Shiroo
keyzid:
You ain't typing that trash? Are you? Nobody here in kwara wants Saraki.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by yusufalabere(m): 1:15pm On Jun 05, 2015
let me just start with what you said and I quote "the police commissioner who went along with this nefariou act was later shot dead by hired assassins on his way to his village during the Christmas of 2012. I do not know whether Bukola was involved but the coincidence was too ominous". so far you not sure of what you are saying it means all your aligation against Bukola Saraki has no evidence. my advice for you is to put stop to all this before is too late.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babdap: 1:22pm On Jun 05, 2015
continue your iranu as if I read your shit.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 1:24pm On Jun 05, 2015
To me, The writer is just playing a kind of hate Politics
yusufalabere:
let me just start with what you said and I quote "the police commissioner who went along with this nefariou act was later shot dead by hired assassins on his way to his village during the Christmas of 2012. I do not know whether Bukola was involved but the coincidence was too ominous". so far you not sure of what you are saying it means all your aligation against Bukola Saraki has no evidence. my advice for you is to put stop to all this before is too late.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by babanett: 1:27pm On Jun 05, 2015
Then who is better to be the Senate President of the 8th Assembly? Is it Ahmed Lawan that nver sponsored any Bill through out his 3 terms as Senator or what?
coolitempa:
Even as a supporter of APC....I cannot support this man as senate president.....his past is toooo..... shocked
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by yusufalabere(m): 3:49pm On Jun 05, 2015
It is clearly in your article that you vomit hatred against Bukola Saraki, but your hatred doesn't stop kwarans not to love this man, because he is the man of the people, the people's choice.
Re: Call For Caution, Before You Vote Saraki As The Senate President by octopusfreaky(f): 3:58pm On Jun 05, 2015
I so much detest him,,,,,the hatred i have for him no be on planet earth,,,i can't pinpoint what he did for Kwarans...Saraku ....

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