‘The World Should Hold The IGP Responsible If Anything Happens To Members Of My Family And Myself’ – Bukola Saraki

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‘The World Should Hold The IGP Responsible If Anything Happens To Members Of My Family And Myself’ – Bukola Saraki

Senate President, Bukola Saraki on Friday raised concern over his
safety and those of his political supporters in his state, Kwara.

Saraki, Director-general of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential
Campaign Organisation, at a news conference in Abuja, accused the
security agencies of giving cover to people who were unleashing violence
on the supporters of the PDP across the state.

Saraki said that the police had continued to show hostility to him
and his supporters in Kwara State as part of efforts to jeopardise and
undermine his personal security and that of his immediate and larger
family. The Senate President cited three incidents to illustrate his
fear about his security, alleged that on Thursday, some supporters and
thugs of the APC attacked PDP supporters at Adewole/Adeta, Ilorin, who
were holding their weekly ward meetings.

“They disrupted the meetings by shouting their party slogan and when
our people responded by mentioning our own slogan, they fired gun shots
into their midst in Adewole/Adeta. They also inflicted machete cuts on
some of them. As a result of this attack, two people suffered bullet
wounds.”

Saraki added that also on Thursday , the same thugs went to his
family quarters in Agbaji in Ilorin and vandalised houses, shops and
inflicted machete wounds on three persons.

“All these destructions took place in the presence of policemen who
came with them but watched without any care, as the APC thugs and
supporters unleashed violence on our people.

“For me, personally, I believe the decision to attack people and
properties in my family ancestral compound is a direct affront and
attack on my person.

“And whatever signal these APC elements with support from the police
believe they are sending is definitely sinister, uncivilized and
unfortunate.

“Our people have filed reports of the incidents in relevant police
stations in Ilorin but we have doubts that anything tangible and
constructive will come out of these reports.”

Saraki added that the same Police under the directive of Inspector
General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris on Thursday commenced the transfer
of Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) out of Kwara.

“It should also be noted that IGP has posted three different Commissioners of Police to Kwara State in the last six months.

“In fact, the previous and current Commissioner of Police in the
State got strict instructions from the IGP not to relate or engage with
the Senate President.

“The usual practice has been that the Commissioner of Police
personally ensures the security of the Senate President whenever he
visits his home state.

“That was the practice during the period of my predecessor and in my first year in office. “

Saraki said that now that he is set to begin ward to ward campaigns
in the state, he is not sure what instructions the IGP had given to the
police command in the state. “Thus, the entire world should hold the IGP
responsible if anything untoward happens to members of my family and
myself.”

Saraki alleged that IGP Idris had tried thrice to implicate him in
some criminal charges. One of them was the arrest of some cultists, who
claimed they worked for him. Another, he said, was the Offa robbery.
Saraki said none of the plots succeeded.

“A situation where political thugs and operatives attack
opponents of the APC under the watch and protection of law enforcement
agents does not present Nigeria well in the comity of nations,
” Saraki said.

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