The younger sister of Bukola
Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President, Oyinkansola Saraki, has said her brother
failed to live up to expectations while he served as Kwara State governor.
Ms Saraki called out her brother
on a national TV programme.
She criticised her brother’s
performance and asked for forgiveness from Kwarans while appearing at
TVC’s”Your View” on Thursday.
Backstory
Mr Saraki lost his bid to return
to the Senate and may not be active politically for the next four years if the
PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, whom he supported does not succeed
in his bid to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari’s electoral victory.
Mr Abubakar lost to Mr Buhari at
the last presidential polls but is challenging the victory in court.
The Saraki dynasty in Kwara since
1979 has produced six governors from the time of late Olusola Saraki who is the
father of the Senate President.
The Saraki structure was strong
force that except you aligned with it politically, you were not likely to succeed
as a politician in Kwara State.
The Senate President was elected
governor of Kwara in 2003 through the help of his father.
After his tenure, he refused to
support the candidature of his sister, Gbemisola, a former senator. Instead, he
supported the incumbent governor, Ahmed Abdulfatai, who floored his sister
against the will of his father.
In the build-up to the 2015
election, Mr Saraki joined other aggrieved governors of the PDP to form the
nPDP. The nPDP would later join other parties to form the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
That did not affect his control
of the Kwara’s political machinery as Mr Saraki’s new party, APC, won the 2015
general elections in Kwara.
He began to face challenges after
the 2015 elections when he defied the APC, to emerge the Senate President,
working in cahoots with PDP lawmakers.
He, eventually, left the APC for
the PDP in 2018 and sought the presidential ticket of the latter. He lost at
the primary to Mr Abubakar.
Mr Saraki was floored in the last
elections. While the Senate President failed to deliver to PDP in the the
presidential, national assembly and governorship election, he also lost his
re-election to the Senate.
With the magic of the political
slogan, “Oto ge” (enough is enough), the PDP lost in all the 2019 elections in
Kwara.
Bukola, a failure – Sister
Reacting to the development,
Oyinkansola Saraki, said she was disappointed with the way her brother governed
the state.
“I am disappointed that Bukola
Saraki did not do well when he was a governor in Kwara State having studied in
the United Kingdom. Bukola and I studied in the United Kingdom, he knows all
the good things in the United Kingdom. We think (thought) he should (would)
reciprocate that in Kwara when he became the Governor but he failed them.
“Even as a Senate President, he
has not carried the people of Kwara along. I am not happy the way my brother
served Kwarans.”
She appealed to the newly elected
state governor, Abdurahman Abdurazaq, to give her the “opportunity to correct
the family wrong to avoid nemesis”.
“I just want the governor elect
to give me a chance to serve the people of Kwara. Just to say we are sorry. I
don’t need appointment. Nemesis will catch up. I don’t want nemesis to catch up
on my children, my grandchildren or upon myself. That’s why I am saying the
truth now.”
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