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Senate Leader Teslim Folarin Remanded In Agodi Prisons by qblaze(m): 3:57pm On Jan 04, 2011
http://www.lagostimes.com/2011/01/04/491/

Teslim Folarin , the leader of the PDP senate caucus, has been remanded in Agodi Prison, Ibadan after being arraigned alongside three associates on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder at an Ibadan Magistrate Court. Mr Folarin who is locked in a bitter power struggle with the governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, is being held for the murder of Lateef Salako, a former factional leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW). Mr Salako was a powerful member of the transporters’ union that wields much power in Nigerian politics. He was allied with the state governor and had also been accused of thuggery and murder when he was still alive. He was killed after violence broke out during a party congress at Ona-Ara in Oyo state.
The police had earlier detained Mr Folarin at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) after he responded to an invitation from the authorities. He reportedly tendered a statement to the Commissioner of Police, Baba Adisa Bolanta.
Folarin arrived at the court premises at around 10.45 AM in a Peugeot 406 car and was taken to the court amid heavy security. A crowd of supporters and top party bosses stormed the court in support of the senate leader.
Folarin and his three co-defendants are being represented by Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN and fourteen other lawyers. Akeredolu said the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case since it involved a murder charge. The Chief Magistrate Sakirat Baderu adjourned the case till January 14, 2011 and remanded the senate leader in prison custody pending the transfer of the case. Folarin left the court in a Toyota Hilux prison van.
Re: Senate Leader Teslim Folarin Remanded In Agodi Prisons by tunnytox(m): 4:24pm On Jan 04, 2011
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