Mr AbdulRazaq, a diplomat, politician and legal icon, had his last breath in the early hours of Saturday.
tested their popularity and political prowess at the poll for the first time. Mr AbdulRazaq lost the governorship contest to Mr Saraki’s candidate.
The deceased was a member of the Federal Parliament from 1964 to 1966 as the Federal Cabinet Minister of State for Transport.Mr AbdulRazaq was a member of the Capital Issues Commission from 1973 to 1978 and has also been a member of the International Commission of Jurists since 1959.Before the 1979 election, Mr AbdulRazaq was not a stranger to the Sarakis. The relationship dated as far back as the 60s.
“I said from their looks, Mr Saraki would be the older person. And because of that, I said I was recognising him as the leader of the community. And against my expectation, Alabi stood up and prostrated before Saraki, holding his leg and saying: ‘I accept you as my leader.’ And I told him he would be Saraki’s deputy.
He heeded the advice and declared interest in representing Asa local government in the parliament under the Northern Peoples Congress. Unfortunately, Mr Saraki lost to one Mr Babatunde, whom the party had decided to return unopposed.The Sarakis became a force to reckon with in Kwara State after Mr AbdulRazaq lost his political grip of the state in 1979.
However, in the 2019 governorship election, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, displaced the Saraki hegemony by winning all the seats sponsored and supported by the All Progressives Congress .Contesting the Saraki’s ancestry
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