A former Nigerian Ambassador to Cote D’Ivoire, Alhaji AbdulGaniy Folorunsho Abdulrazak has declared that the godfather of Kwara politics and the Turaki of Ilorin, Dr. Olusola Saraki, is not from Kwara State but an Egba man from Ogun State.

Saraki

In an interview published in this week’s edition of TheNEWS magazine, Alhaji Abdulrazak narrated how he became a close friend of Dr. Saraki’s father, the late Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki and what the older Saraki told him about his ancestry.

According to the former ambassador, Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki visited him one Sunday at home and they had an important and historic discussion.

Alhaji Abdulrazak recalled: “He asked me where I come from. I told him I am from Ilorin. Alhaji Saraki said he was an Egba man from Abeokuta. By this time I did not even know the existence of Olusola Saraki. So, the man told me he was from Abeokuta but he went to a Quranic School in Ilorin at Agbaji, an area reputed for Islamic scholarship. The man with his own mouth told me he was an Egba man from Abeokuta. This was in early 1963.”

Alhaji Abdulrazak disclosed that Alhaji Muttahiru Saraki introduced his son, Olusola Saraki, to him who at that time was studying Medicine in London. He recollected that at their first meeting, as the then young Saraki stretched out his hand to shake him, his father slapped him. But he calmed the elder Saraki. After the first meeting, the father said he was putting the younger Saraki in his care, stressing, “Take care of him for me.”

revomind:

This, everyone knows. Next please

desgiezd:

Here's a man who would refer to himself as "Oloye" while in the south but would prefer to be called "Malam" whenever he crosses River Niger towards the north. Now the son is proud to say he is "Bukola Abubakar Saraki", the "Abubakar" that has been so silent before the issue of presidential campaign came up.

toba:

with this revelation, OBJ might actually come from gombe state

desgiezd:

OBJ is an Igbo, in fact, a prince.

tpia1:

gbemi saraki [daughter]

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bukola saraki [son]





dr. olusola saraki [guy in question]










they are clearly mixed with something [most likely fulani or maybe not] .


On the egba connection- news to me but never say never. 

Abagworo:

Phenotype is one aspect that is difficult to use in passing judgement.Some Igala people look purely Fulani but they have no links.But I must confess the Sarakis look like a blend of Fulani and Yoruba.

Abagworo:

Saraki once used his own mouth to claim malian Fulani origin.It will be a shame if proven that he is an Egba man.

One lesson episodes like this should teach us Nigerians is to accept everybody as a citizen of wherever he is born or settled as long as he is a Nigerian.

revomind:

@dapobear, not that everyone knows he's egba but everyone knows he's yoruba atleast among kwarans and other Yorubas that care enough.
You can't judge where people come from solely from looks especially in Nigeria. People are always surprised to hear that I'm yoruba cuz of my looks when in fact, i'm a full-blooded one. This may be because of the stereotype that yoruba folks are dark complexioned. Gbemi can definitely be yoruba, money made her that fresh cuz there are many omo-alatas with a similar complexion.
Whatever the Sarakis wanna do with themselves is cool to me, no one is losing sleep.

revomind:

Whatever the Sarakis wanna do with themselves is cool to me, no one is losing sleep.

I have a problem with what they are doing because it causes division. The Sarakis are vipers in our midst.

alj harem:

thank u dapobear

i just want to make it clear and sound to any body that think or would ever think bukola is a northerner

1   bukola is a yoruba agent used by obj to rule us

2. how many northerners do u find in kwara (little) today compare to northerns found in lagos or abuja

3.  kwara is never a northern state ,,,,,,, i do not know were they get this arewa from in kwara but i know that they are not northerners

4.  yorubas can never rule us northerners ,,,,,,,,,,just because they are pretenting to be us when actually they do not like us

Ileke-IdI:

Oludashmi, lunch wo lo owe e? Ibo lo ti ri ibi ti awon Yoruba kan kan s'ebi pe omo Hausa- Fulani ni wan? Pretend to be what? Tufiakwa! walahi!

Anywaz.

oludashmi:

Ileke. . .oo mo wipe man yen ti fi ori won gba paaro ni ilu yen, infact ni last 2 weeks, omo kwara to dagba si 'le si salaye bi Saraki se ma n fun gbogbo won lowo ni kekere, just like alimanjiri stuff (kosi secret ni online so mi, le so gbogbo ee tan).

2. how many northerners do u find in kwara (little) today compare to northerns found in lagos or abuja

3.  kwara is never a northern state ,,,,,,, i do not know were they get this arewa from in kwara but i know that they are not northerners