Saraki Speaks On How APC Thugs, ‘Protected’ By Police Allegedly Injured His Family Members In Ilorin

Hold IGP Responsible If Any Evil Befalls Me And My Family – Saraki Cries Out

Senate President Bukola Saraki has alleged that the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris may be planning a sinister for him and is family members in Ilorin, Kwara State.

Addressing reporters in Abuja yesterday, Saraki who is also the Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential Campaign Organisation, claimed that on Thursday, thugs allegedly belonging to the All Progressive Congress, “shielded by policemen went to my family quarters in Agbaji in Ilorin and vandalized houses, shops and inflicted wounds with matchetes on three people.”

He said, “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.”

The Senate President further alleged that the police continued to show undisguised hostility towards him and his supporters in the state.

The former Kwara State governor said reports of the attacks were filed in relevant police stations in Ilorin, but expressed doubts that anything tangible and constructive would come out of the reports.

Saraki who raised notices of the public to the reposting of three different Commissioners of Police to Kwara State in the last six months, said ..”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”

He stated further that as part of the plot, the police, under the directive of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Ibrahim Idris, on Thursday, commenced the transfer of Divisional Police Officers (DPOs) out of Kwara State.

According to him, the usual practice has been that the Commissioner of Police personally ensures the security of the Senate President whenever he visits his home state.

He said all his predecessors in office were accorded that security cover whenever they visited their home states and that he also enjoyed it in his first year in office from 2015 to 2016.

Saraki expressed apprehension over his personal safety as the ward to ward electioneering is about to begin across the state.

“We need to make it clear to the entire world that now that ward to ward campaign is about to begin in the state and I am set to participate in that grassroots campaign, as I have always done, nobody is sure what instructions Mr. Idris has given to the police command in the state, Saraki added.
“Thus, the entire world should hold the IGP responsible if anything untoward happens to members of my family and myself” he said.

While the police are free to take decisions on the deployment of their personnel, we found the postings in Kwara State strange and more than a mere coincidence,” he said.

Meanwhile Naija News reports that this may be another strive that has risen between police and the senate President, after the Offa robbery Saga.

Saraki was last year indicted in the Offa robbery incidence that claimed scores of lives, including police officers, this made him and the Police Boss, Ibrahim idris to be at logger heads.