Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Sunday night was forced to rushed down to Ilorin, Kwara state around 9:10 pm as result of violence that broke out at the ongoing Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship election in the state.
Saraki had insisted that he has no anointed candidate in the gubernatorial election in the state.
The race is between Hon. Razak Atunwa and Bolaji Abdullahi.
The delegates later discovered that the ballot boxes have been stuffed with Atuwa votes
Speaking in a statement through his media aide, Saraki said,” Dr. Saraki believes that competence, popularity and acceptability, must be the deciding factors in the selection of the party’s gubernatorial candidate, as such, due to the fact that many of the aspirants in question meet all three criteria, Dr. Saraki has stated that a level-playing field must be provided for all the aspirants to vie for the gubernatorial ticket of the PDP in Kwara,” the statement read.
“Going back to today’s incident, accreditation had already taken place, and delegates from two Local Government Areas had already voted. The third Local Government had started to vote, when a few people from that LGA raised certain observations about the process.
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“The organisers of the primaries then suggested that the LGA in question should either conclude voting while the observations were addressed, or allow another LGA to vote pending the resolution of the observations that were raised.
“It was at this point that hired thugs then forced their way into the venue of the primaries to disrupt the process.
“It is important to note that despite his influence in the politics of the state, Dr. Saraki has always worked to ensure that the democratic process is followed to the letter.
“Additionally, as many of his political associates are aspiring to become the next Governor of the state, he has maintained that he will allow the people to decide and worked to ensure that the party primaries in the state remain credible.
“That was why he stayed back in Abuja while the primary election in Ilorin was ongoing. He just left Abuja for Ilorin at 9.10pm following the news of the disruption.”
It will be called that Atunwa, who is from Abba in the Ilorin Central of d state was prepared in his close relationship with late Senator Olusola Saraki .
It was Atunwa ,our source disclosed who normally attends to the late politician’s needs whenever he travels to the United kingdom.
Besides he was said to be the late Oloyes preferred candidate instead of Governor Abdullahi fatai in the run up to the 2011 governorship elections.
