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The Final Meltdown Of Saraki Hegemony. DG NBC Modibo Kawu by Rollymax77(m): 12:27am On Mar 17, 2019 |
Bukola Saraki
When the results of the senatorial
elections began to appear, three
weeks ago, and it became obvious
that Bukola Saraki had been utterly
defeated by his old nemesis, Dr.
Ibrahim Oloriegbe, many of his
social media rats, as well as even
editors of mainstream Nigerian
media establishments, launched a
pre-planned offensive. Their
approach was a systematic dis-
information project that was
desperate, even at that late hour,
to convince the Nigerian public, that
their “walking-bank-balance”, was
winning the elections. As usual with
Bukola Saraki and his hangers-on,
the situation of our people in Ilorin
and Kwara state, was merely an
inconvenient backdrop to his over-
arching political ambitions. But this
time, their plot had taken a dead-
on-arrival trip to the morgue of
Nigerian politics! Bukola Saraki had
literally been skinned alive by the
people of Ilorin Emirate (Kwara
Central Senatorial District). Dr.
Ibrahim Oloriegbe won by 123, 808
votes, to Bukola Saraki’s 68, 994!
The jubilation that followed the
announcement of the results (and
at a point everyone was
apprehensive that it was not going
to come, because the results for
Ilorin West and Ilorin South took a
frighteningly long time to be
returned!), was as deafening as it
was most liberating. Arguably, the
most reviled, most unpopular
individual in contemporary Nigerian
politics, had finally gotten his
comeuppance! Nigerians rejoiced all
over our country and thanked the
people of the Ilorin Emirate for
exorcising the political monster,
that had used a dubious Senate
Presidency, to hamstring the
programs of the Buhari
Administration, from the time he
constructed a coup in June 2015,
which earned him the poisoned
chalice that the eminent seat
became, in his hands. Not only did
Bukola Saraki lose the seat, the
people of our state ensured that
the other two senatorial seats in
Kwara North and South respectively,
were also won by the APC, as well
as the six House of Representatives
positions. Last weekend, the final
nail was knocked into the casket of
the Saraki Hegemony in Kwara
State. Bukola Saraki’s PDP lost the
governorship as well as the 24
seats in the Kwara State House of
Assembly. It was a rout; a
whitewash and the definitive end of
an incredibly arrogant hegemony,
that systematically underdeveloped
Kwara State; which was built as an
elaborate fraud and a platform of
heist that had no parallel in Nigeria’s
political history. The roots of the
Saraki hegemony effectively went
back to 1979, when their patriarch,
Dr. Olushola Saraki entered Senate
and was Senate leader (but we
might even date the roots to a few
years earlier, with the indirect
elections into the Constituent
Assembly, and his active
participation in the National
Movement that eventually
transformed into the NPN in the
Second Republic). The Saraki
Hegemony was instrumental in the
emergence and removal of six
Kwara state governors: Adamu
Attah, C.O. Adebayo, Sha’aba
Lafiagi, Muhammed Lawal, Bukola
Saraki and Abdulfatai Ahmed. They
hamstrung each governor; imposed
controls and generally made life
difficult for each one of these
governors, except for only one. And
that one, was Bukola Saraki, who
ran the state, at the height of the
powers of the hegemony, with an
uncommon arrogance; disrespect
for people and the values of our
people and state, and who
eventually imposed a long-term
sidekick, Fatai Ahmed as governor.
Bukola Saraki had actually
checkmated, for personal reasons
of sibling rivalry and the need to
protect his controversial 8-year
tenure, the temerity to attempt to
impose Gbemisola Saraki as
governor, after serving for 12 years
in the National Assembly as
representative and then Senator,
representing a people she literally
knew nothing about. And for the
eight years that Fatai Ahmed was
governor, 2011-2019, Bukola Saraki
was effectively the Governor-
General of Kwara 1 Like |
Re: The Final Meltdown Of Saraki Hegemony. DG NBC Modibo Kawu by BabbanBura(m): 12:30am On Mar 17, 2019 |
Rollymax77:. And u want mek we read this long epistle? |
Re: The Final Meltdown Of Saraki Hegemony. DG NBC Modibo Kawu by Rollymax77(m): 12:30am On Mar 17, 2019 |
The period from 2003 to 2019, is
arguably the WORST in the history
of Kwara state. And central to these
years was the arrogant presence of
Bukola Saraki. It was the period that
Kwara State received the highest
levels of allocation in our history
since it was created in 1967, yet, it
was the period which witnessed the
execution of projects that impacted
very little in terms of value, on the
lives of Kwarans. The sixteen local
governments, between 2003 and
2018, got a total of N298, 434, 186,
870. 78. From the Federation
Account. Yet, for the past few
years, they have been unable to
pay salaries of staff. The local
administration is dead and most, if
not all the local secretariats, exist
only in name. When Bukola Saraki
took over in 2003, he dissolved the
elected councils from the previous
Muhammed Lawal administration;
and for the next two years, Bukola
Saraki was effectively the Sole
Administrator, till 2005. There is no
account of their funds till today!
The suffering of local government
workers; the ruination of the
administrative structures as well as
the utter destruction of the ability
of local government administration
to impact upon the lives of people
at the local level, was actually one
of the greatest crimes of the Saraki
hegemony in our state. That led to
the massive drift of young rural
folks into the main urban centers
of the state, but especially Ilorin,
the state capital. These survive as
urban lumpens, who live marginally,
as OKADA riders; recharge cards
sellers, and are involved in sundry
petty crimes, to make ends meet.
Many are on drugs and a lot had
been recruited into gangs, 1 Like |
Re: The Final Meltdown Of Saraki Hegemony. DG NBC Modibo Kawu by Rollymax77(m): 12:33am On Mar 17, 2019 |
Any visitor to Ilorin, would see how
dysfunctional the city has become.
There is no development control
and the hegemony has parcelled
out every available piece of land
and sold, in a lunatic and desperate
search for funds, after the state
and local government allocations
have gone down the drain. As for
the State Government, it has taken
over N600 billion from the
Federation Account, yet, there is no
aspect of our lives that the Saraki
Hegemony has not devalued or
destroyed. An elder of the
community, Alhaji LAK Jimoh, used
the Agricultural Nursery by Oyun
River Bridge, as an example, in a
discussion last year. He reminded
that it was one of the best
nurseries in Nigeria. They created
new species of fruits and plants
and at a point, they even developed
a hybrid mango that came from
using stock from Burkina Faso.
People came from all over Nigeria
to buy these. Similarly, Military
Adminstrator, Peter Ogar,
encouraged development of a new
variety of pineapples at the
nursery. But what did the Saraki
Hegemony do? They sold the
nursery and dismantled the Ministry
of Agriculture and related
institutions, which dated back to
colonial times and the Northern
Regional Government, and a place
where, under the late Governor
David Bamgboye, Eagle Rice;
Chicken and so many other food
products were sold at reasonable
prices. Alhaji LAK Jimoh said the
years of the Bukola Saraki
Hegemony, 2003-2019, resemble
an invasions of a community by
Barbarian hordes of Antiquity! Scam
was practically central to every
project conceived from 2003 to
2019; none more so, than the
Zimbabwe Farm, which is a large
scale heist. The local people lost
their land to so-called Zimbabwean
farmers, who entered our state
with only suitcases! 1 Like |
Re: The Final Meltdown Of Saraki Hegemony. DG NBC Modibo Kawu by Rollymax77(m): 12:36am On Mar 17, 2019 |
Re: The Final Meltdown Of Saraki Hegemony. DG NBC Modibo Kawu by Rollymax77(m): 12:39am On Mar 17, 2019 |
Another side of the Hegemony, was
bringing in people from other
states to head vital institutions; so
Tope Daramola, who was said to be
Bukola Saraki’s Account Officer at
Intercontinental Bank, was
compensated with the position of
Director of Bureau of Land in Kwara
State; but following an outcry, the
Bukola Saraki hegemony appointed
the Ondo State indigene MD of the
cash cow called Harmony Holdings.
And for years, whenever a minister
was appointed from Kwara State,
the SA was either Koye Sogbola or
Kola Alagbada.
There is a well-known story, that
Kwara state is the only inheritance
that Dr. Olushola Saraki bequeathed
to the family. Bukola Saraki
therefore carried on with a sense
of entitlement, which explained the
indefensible pension scheme that
he crafted for himself. A classic
case of head I win, tail you lose!
That is a well-known story in Kwara,
but the truth will come to light only
with the new administration. And to
rub salt unto injury, Bukola Saraki
got the State House of Assembly to
move a motion that the State
University be named after his
father, Olushola Saraki! I had
wondered at the height of that
controversy, just why Bukola Saraki
won’t show love for his father, by
building a private university in Ilorin,
and name it after his father. It
would have been social
responsibility of the highest order.
Kwarans actually wizened to the
rapacious nature of the hegemony
since 2011. In 2015, he benefitted
from the President Muhammadu
Buhari effect, to return to senate.
That is obvious, because President
Buhari got more votes in Ilorin than
Bukola Saraki. It meant that
President Buhari won in our
community, in spite of Bukola, NOT
because of him! So when he began
to arrogantly claim that he was
going to teach the president
politics, he probably did not add up
the numbers, even in the
constituency that he was
supposedly representing in senate!
In the long run, he was the one that
was taught the most bitter political
lesson; not by President
Muhammadu Buhari directly, but by
the people of the Kwara Central
Senatorial District, who saw through
his arrogance; the 16-year
systematic underdevelopment of
the state, under his watch, and the
manner he behaved, as if he was
doing us a favour, sitting atop our
resources. He imposed individuals,
often from other states to run
strategic institutions to the
detriment of the best interests of
the state. 2 Likes |
Re: The Final Meltdown Of Saraki Hegemony. DG NBC Modibo Kawu by Rollymax77(m): 12:43am On Mar 17, 2019 |
BabbanBura: thats why i bought data for you and log into Nairaland for you and i started forcing you to read this . Shiohhhh MUSU 2 Likes |
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