The Peoples Democratic Party has debunked claims that the ruling All Progressives Congress and one of its national leaders, Bola Tinubu, were behind the ongoing investigation of the wife of the President of the Senate, Toyin Saraki, for corruption.
PREMIUM TIMES had on Wednesday exclusively reported the invitation, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, of Mrs. Saraki, who was the first lady of Kwara between 2003 and 2011, in relation to alleged questionable inflow of funds into companies in which she has interest.
But shortly after that news broke, a group of senators loyal to Senate President Bukola Saraki, under the aegis of ‘Like Minds,’ questioned the investigation, expressing concerns that the probe might be politically-motivated and suggesting that the leadership of the APC might be hounding Mrs. Saraki as a way of getting at her husband.
Mr. Saraki has been locked in battle with the leadership of the ruling party over his emergence as senate president on June 9 contrary to the wishes of the party.
Joseph Waku, a chieftain of the APC, had also on Friday accused Mr. Tinubu of masterminding a “baseless petition” that led to the invitation of Mrs. Saraki by the EFCC, a charge the former Lagos governor stoutly denied.
But in a statement Saturday, the Kwara state chapter of the PDP said it was a petition it (PDP) submitted to the EFCC that got Mrs. Saraki into trouble.
“It has become imperative to inform the members of the public that we have every reasons to believe that a petition recently submitted to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Kwara state chapter is largely responsible for the invitation and eventual criminal prosecution of the former Kwara First Lady and wife of the Senate President, Mrs. Toyin Saraki,” the party said in a statement by its spokesperson, Rex Olawoye.
The PDP added, “It will be recalled that our party had sometime early this year discreetly submitted a petition to the EFCC detailing how certain individuals in high places under the past administration of Dr. Bukola Saraki milked the state dry and left the people more impoverished than they met them.
“In the said petition, we carefully chronicled how state officials, including former First Lady, Toyin Saraki, former Special Adviser to the Governor on MDGs, Mr. Ope Saraki, Personal Assistant (PA) to ex-Governor Bukola Saraki, one Mr. Abdul Adama from Kogi state, a former Commissioner for Information, Mr. Tunji Morounfoye, all working in a ring, got enmeshed in a cesspool of corruption unprecedented in the history of Kwara state or any other state of the federal for that matter!
“Although, we believe that the arrest and prosecution of Mrs. Toyin Saraki is long overdue, we nevertheless take solace under the fact that the long arm of the law seems to have finally caught up with her and her cronies. We are particularly delighted that our painstaking efforts at chronicling the monumental heist that defined the eight years, almost uneventful rule of former Governor Bukola Saraki in Kwara, has not gone unnoticed.
“We therefore commend the EFCC for its resourcefulness and painstakingness. We pledge our cooperation with the EFCC and all other relevant anti-graft agencies to ensure that all those who knowingly looted our collective patrimony, but now walking the streets of Kwara free with their ill-gotten wealth, do not go unpunished.
“We urge the anti-graft agency not to buckle in to pressure or blackmail that is already being mounted by political jobbers over Mrs. Saraki’s invitation by the EFCC. Instead of sponsoring paid activist-for-hire to stampede the EFCC out of the prosecution, one would have thought that the most moral thing for Toyin Saraki and her handlers to do now is to allow the law to take its cause. Since the duo of Ope Saraki and Tunji Morounfoye are already standing trial for their crimes, one would expect Mrs. Saraki too to seize the moment and clear her name, instead of playing to the gallery.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we reiterate that the offences Mrs. Saraki is being accused of are criminal in nature and such offences are not known to be statute-barred. Therefore, the fact that it took over five years after Mrs. Saraki left office as Kwara First Lady before she is eventually brought before the law does not matter.
“What matters is that justice is ultimately served, especially for the sake of the hard-working Kwara civil servants, poor Kwara farmers and the promising children of Kwara who were and are still being subjected to all manners of deprivations as a result of the rapaciousness of a privileged few who could not contain the temptations to stare clear the cookie jar.”

Source: http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/187286-pdp-exonerates-apc-tinubu-in-toyin-sarakis-efcc-ordeal-says-own-party-behind-probe.html

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In Waku's voice:"NOOOO! I no gree! This is bullshyt! It must be Tinubu!!!"

Some people will bury their head in shame, they try all dirty politics to soil the name of " the politician of the centuary" in the person of " Jagaban", they though, they are the only one that can influence the opposition party, well they are wrong, JAGABAN is not call Asiwaju for nothing, now, Saraki is tamed, the Clark will soon be prosecuted, all the elections will be declared void and his wife will sing like canary at the end they will all go to jail or compromise and beg "Jagaba".

Tinubu is the greatest threat to some people's political ambitions, hence the need to always finger him in every situation they find themselves that is self inflicted.

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Tinubu hand dey jare!

Mods, front page please...
I want to read the reaction of wailers here who were already throwing trash at BAT and the APC

This PDP sha










Whoever coined that wailing wailers deserves an award

Tinubu 1-0 Waku. Why take panadol for another man headache? In yoruba language, waaku danu

I still don't trust the chief looter

Shame on waku and the wailing wailers. Tinubu will have a hard laugh on reading this.

Stupid Dr. Cespit Bukola Over-ambitious Saraki going, going, going,. . . .

Stories!

Question is, if PDP, Kwara State is completely and singlehandedly responsible for the probe of a former first Lady if their State, why now, 5yrs after she left office?

This is a punch below the belt for the architect of the earlier theory. Public lying is very serious an embarrassment when busted. Ask Doyin Bastardh Okupe.

patrickmuf:
Mods, front page please...
I want to read the reaction of wailers here who were already throwing trash at BAT and the APC

Na today? wait until they start telling u how, "Tinubu bribe the pdp kwara state chapter" even while saraki and his father are still very much alive! It is these statements of theirs that actually give Asiwaju all the influence he never deserved.

Opinedecandid:
Stories!

Question is, if PDP, Kwara State is completely and singlehandedly responsible for the probe of a former first Lady if their State, why now, 5yrs after she left office?

simple. when your oga-at-d-top wife is neck deep in corruption, how did u expect him to support d probe of another person's wife?
well mayb u still haven't know that power has change hands. Good morning ooo!

Interesting! I wonder how some people will take this news.

Opinedecandid:
Stories!

Question is, if PDP, Kwara State is completely and singlehandedly responsible for the probe of a former first Lady if their State, why now, 5yrs after she left office?

even if u are Saraki suppoter or Tinubu hater, that's no reason for talking like a novice...

....as if you didn't know that under last dispensation that "stealing is not corruption.

okay, why is that a government probe of NNPC is just coming now, after their many years of stealing?

and why is is that EFFC that has been before now in a deep slumber just sprung to life?

while some wailing wailers were busy pointing accusing fingers at APC when they are the one behind the probe. Time will tell!!

Opinedecandid:
Stories!

Question is, if PDP, Kwara State is completely and singlehandedly responsible for the probe of a former first Lady if their State, why now, 5yrs after she left office?

Saraki was in pdp until about a year ago

And some ignorant meanows who think themselves intelligent would be crapping all over cyberspace, egged on by their gullible fans and followers.

I just pity the Wailers.

bandely:
Interesting! I wonder how some people will take this news.

Look no further than four posts above yours to see how they'll take it.

They resent the truth with passion and would do anything it takes to turn a polar bear black. That is as bad as it gets.



Lalasticlala, I wonder what this thread is still doing in the dungeon.