Kawu Modibo’s Constant Campaign of Calumny Against bukolasaraki By Sola Ebiseni One can therefore only advise those who presently feel invested with the people's mandate to be focused on making a difference and shun the distractions from... READ MORE:
Kawu Modibo's usual attacks on the Saraki family, particularly Bukola Saraki, the enigmatic Nigerian Senate President, is not just a past time but actually, an occupation pursued with uncanny passion. A media man of repute, Lanre Kawu often leverages on the abundant press space available to him in his harangue of the person of the former Kwara governor and all he stands for.
Besides, Kawu should have sought other means of ingratiating himself to President Buhari rather than claiming that Saraki's acts, as the head of the Nigerian parliament, were responsible for the president's lacklustre performance.
This is the rationale behind the O TO GE message as the dominant campaign mantra in the current electioneering process in Kwara. It is not a political death sentence, but of the need to try other hands in the process of development. This is the inalienable right of the people in any democracy.
While revelling in what he saw as political revolution in Kwara, he mischievously and deliberately avoided the O TO GE message of the revolution because of his repulsion for the language and angst for its Yoruba ethnic nationality. I had engaged Modibo during the 2014 National Conference, of which we were both delegates, on why he changed his name from Olanrewaju, with which he was known back in school and later as a broadcaster.
The Saraki family and its political machine are a case study, not only in Kwara but, in the politics of Nigeria. Abubakar Olusola Saraki was Senate Majority Leader during Shagari's presidency of the Second Republic. Not much was known of him in the First Republic and the military politics thereafter but during Babangida's Third Republic, he contested in the presidential primary of the SDP before he and the likes of Shehu Ya'ardua, Olu Falae etc were by banned by Babangida.
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