Abubakar Bukola Saraki the first son of the late political icon has been at loggerheads with the current Kwara State governor, Governor AbdulRahman Abudulrazak who has been trying to revoke a piece of land Saraki’s have owned for over 40 years.
Bukola Saraki has continued to service the old and vulnerable since the demise of his father, a tradition he continued even after he didn’t win re-election in the past 2019 election.
On 31st of December, the world woke up to news that the current governor has sent police officers with other government officials to take over the building, they were met with heavy resistance of aged women.
They received their usual care package from Bukola Saraki, but surprisingly, Gbemi Saraki who is in the same party with the governor and currently a serving minister and has kept quiet joined supporters of Her brother by providing bags of rice to distribute In Solidarity with her brother to protect their father’s name.
According to sources close to the Saraki family, Gbemi was said to have been enraged by the Kwara State Government’s move to wipe out the legacy of her father.
Recall that the latest in the onslaught by Gov Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq against the Saraki’s dynasty take over of a piece of land occupied by the Saraki family in Ilorin, the state capital. He said a new secretariat would be built on the land.
The chief press secretary to the governor, Rafiu Ajakaiye issued a statement, he said the land was originally meant for government secretariat and parking space of the Civil Service Clinic, but was unlawfully allocated to a private firm, Asa Investments Limited, without any record of payment to the state government.
‘No certificate of occupancy was issued in favour of the firm’
