The Leader of the Senate in the Second Republic, Dr. Olusola Saraki, on Sunday evening formally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party for the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria with a horde of supporters in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital.
At the event, Saraki said he would meet his son, Dr. Bukola Saraki, on the field. This development has set the stage for an epic clash between the veteran politician and his son, who is also the governor of the state and leader.
Saraki, who joined the ACPN at a formal ceremony at his Iloffa residence in the Government Reservation Area, Ilorin also said, “The Peoples Democratic Party is officially dead and buried in Kwara State.” At the event, the politician also directed his supporters to discard PDP property in their possession, adding that he was still discussing with other parties.
In his words, “I was the one you voted for in 1999, 2003 and 2007; but since they have decided to treat us like this, we will move to a party that will favour us and not suffer us the way PDP is doing.”
It however appears he is throwing up his daughter to take over the governance of the state from where his son stopped. Saraki said, “When you (his supporters) told me you wanted Bukola in 2003, I told you he was not a politician, but you said it was him you wanted. Now you are saying you want Gbemi (his daughter). When I told him Gbemi would take over from him, he said ‘no problem.’ I called him and asked him, ‘Do you know anybody who is better than Gbemi?’ "
The question I then ask is could it be possible that in a state like Kwara, the most intelligent professionals and politicians are from the immediately family of Olusola Saraki. I dare say No because the politician himself admitted that his son was 'inexperienced'...in his words, the leadership of PDP in the state capitalized on the “inexperience of the state leadership to perpetuate themselves and turn themselves into something else. Those who were not involved in the building of the party have now capitalised on the inexperience of the leadership to perpetuate themselves and to decide the fate of the real people on the state’s political turf.”
So he did not realize his son was inexperienced until after 8 years...Nawa o!
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