Following news reports that Nigeria’s senate president, Bukola Saraki,
was attacked at the Eid Prayer Groundduring the prayers to mark the
Eid-el-Kabir in Ilorin earlier today, Thursday, September 24, the
embattled former governor has denied the reports.
Mr Saraki who
spoke through his media office said he was never attacked nor was there
any attempt made on his life to warrant him being ‘whisked away’ as
reported by a section of the media.
Saraki said he had earlier
spoke with reporters at the prayer ground as he arrived in the company
of the Emir of Ilorin, His Royal Highness (HRH), Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu
Gambari, Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon Ali Ahmad
and a former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Alfa Belgore.
“We
want to say that nothing can be further from the truth as the Senate
President was never attacked nor was there any attempt made on his life
to warrant him being ‘whisked away’ as reported by a section of the
media.
“We however observe that there was a protest allegedly
staged by local government employees over purported non-payment of
salaries which hoodlums attempted to hijacked but this development was
immediately curtailed by security agents.
“Therefore, to say that
the Senate President was attacked at the venue of the prayers is
totally false and a figment of the imagination of those behind the story
because the protest was never targeted at him, neither was any missile
hurled at him,”the statement said.
Meanwhile, the Kwara State
Government has stated that majority of the workers in the state have
received their salaries and that those yet to receive theirs will do so
on Monday as Thursday and Friday of this week are public holidays.
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