A former commissioner for works and transport in Kwara State, Hon Rotimi Iliasu, who decamped from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest for the 2027 Kwara North Senatorial seat, in Moro has alleged the former senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki of high handedness.
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ccording to him,he alleged that the former Senate President instructed PDP machinery to seize his ticket to the red chamber.
Hon llisau, who, featured on the Kwara State Correspondents chapel’s News Keg, where he also hinted on how he and his father were betrayed by Saraki, the state’s political warlord.
A 45-year old politician from Moro local government,Area of Kwara State,lamented that his hopes to be an exemplary role model for the youths in the district and the entire state before joining the PDP were shartered when the party leadership allegedly substituted his names.
He recalled several moves to plead with the PDP leader only to meet brick-wall each time.
According to Iliasu: “I left the APC becaus I was not duly acknowledged by the governor.”
He disclosed the circumstances surrounding his decamping to the PDP to include justice, fairness and equity that eluded him in the APC.
“I mobilised for the PDP in Baruten, Moro and Kaiama when APC was ruling those areas against the people’s wish.
“They joined and voted for me because of my antecedents. Gentle men of the press, on the day of the election, the party chairman made calls to people not to vote for me, but Allah made me to win but I was the only winner that was not announced.
“When I asked the party’s officers, they asked me to go to the party chairman who bluntly refused to reverse the stance. He, however, gave a condition that i write a withdrawal letter before my name could be announced.
“I refused to write the letter because of my respect for the people who damned all consequence to vote for me,” he recalled.
Subsequently, the Senate hopeful said he made several efforts to appease Saraki including visiting his Abuja residence where he was allegedly ordered out.
His words: “I sent many text messages to the leader (Saraki) who later asked me to see him at his home in Abuja.
“When came, he even asked me ‘why are you in my house,’ i reminded him of our text exchanges then he asked what I wanted from him.
“When I told him, he pointedly told me that heaven would not fall even if I go to court. I left his presence I could only see respite in Court decision, that was why I went to court.
“I went to court for redress, for people to know that court justice could be secured. If i lose, so be it but if i win then Allah has decreed,” he stated amidst visible emotion.
