OPINION: Senate President, Bukola Saraki and the Police, By Tobenna Obiano

Nigeria is a very funny nation. So, the Nigerian Police wants to make us understand, believe or accept the allegations leveled against Mr. Bukola Saraki and the incumbent Governor of Kwara State that they were involved in a crime related offense.


Again, what script are these guys playing this time around. So, as big, as influential and perhaps as successful as Saraki is today, what the police wants us to believe is that he’s also a petty road side criminal who runs a cartel of bank armed robbers.

Bukola Saraki, a trained Medical Doctor, a former Managing Director of a Bank, former Governor of Kwara State, a Senator and currently serving as the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in a quest to make more money would hire armed robbers to unleash terror on his own people of Kwara State, where commercial banks were raided and scores (32 persons) were shot to death, including pregnant women and a total of nine policemen.


Nigerian police force should’ve acted more professionally. They should’ve conducted themselves in a sane manner, approached the allegations intelligently, but gunning for media hype and making a nonsense of the loads of weighty allegations before them makes whatsoever purpose they’re pursuing a ridiculous joke.

However, the police has opted and withdrawn their earlier invitation of the Senate President to Edet House, the force headquarters. They’ve now notified him by writing and asked him to respond through writing. Recall that the Nigerian Senate invited the Inspector General of Police on three different occasions and he failed to honor any of those invitations. One wrong turn deserves another.


No one genuinely pities Saraki, Melaye and in the foreseeable future also, Osibanjo and Tinibu. They brought the evil against themselves, may it consume them all. Whoever that fetches an ant infested firewood, should be ready to dine with the devil.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan was said to be a weakly, called names and referred to as incompetent solely because he was genuinely a democrat. Now, another sheriff is in town, Muhammad Buhari and in a turn of tides, virtually everyone suddenly prefers the Jonathan era.

Ofcourse, Nigeria only practices democracy on paper, while in reality, this is dictatorship at work.