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Anybody But Saraki !!! by lolade123: 8:47pm On Jun 03, 2015
Before Bukola Saraki is Coronated as Senate President of the 8th National
Assembly: A word of Caution to Career Politicians in the Nigerian Senate

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 firsthand 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.
Re: Anybody But Saraki !!! by dunkem21(m): 8:54pm On Jun 03, 2015
Jagabantics ..So, he is a common thief and your people elected him as a senator?

..I don't know why the APC is afraid of their own Saraki ..

On Saraki, we stand! ..if he is corrupt as the article posits, then Buhari should jail him ..

Till then, SARAKI!

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Re: Anybody But Saraki !!! by captainBIAFRA(m): 8:54pm On Jun 03, 2015
shocked shocked shocked
Re: Anybody But Saraki !!! by Aminat508(f): 8:57pm On Jun 03, 2015
Saraki Kan, Ilorin Kan, kwara Kan... ..
Re: Anybody But Saraki !!! by SeverusSnape(m): 8:57pm On Jun 03, 2015
Saraki is a change Agent.
Re: Anybody But Saraki !!! by Paentera(m): 6:57am On Aug 15, 2018
How true this advice rings three years plus later. Sarakonda needs to be check mated.

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