Police stall Saraki’s political gathering

Riot policemen on Saturday stalled a proposed political gathering in Ilorin where a former Governor of Kwara State, Dr. Bukola Saraki, was billed to address his supporters.

The policemen took over the secretariat of the erstwhile Peoples Democratic Party that was loyal to Saraki. They also blocked all roads leading to the secretariat at Nupe Road of the Government Reservation Area, Ilorin.

Some members of the Saraki faction of PDP, New PDP, had defected  to the All Progressives Congress in Kwara State.

The secretariat is being claimed by members of the mainstream PDP in the state following the defection of the new PDP to APC.

Scores of  mobile police vans loaded with armed mobile policemen were seen at the secretariat.

The PDP had laid claim to the ownership of the secretariat while the erstwhile Chairman of the new PDP, Mr. Ishola Fulani-Balogun, had said the rent of the secretariat was paid in his name.

The Kwara State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Olufemi Fabode, who was also at the secretariat told journalists that the policemen were there to forestall a breakdown of law and order.

He warned that  the secretariat would be sealed off and advised the two claimants to go to court to settle the right ownership of the secretariat.

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