These, certainly, are not the best of times for former Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki. Just when he thinks that his political fortunes were at their lowest ebb, the forces of disintegration in the former Kwara State governor’s political camp appear determined erase whatever is left of his legacies in the state he once bestrode like a colossus.

Recall that the political machinery of the current Kwara State Governor Abdurahman Abdulrazak and his All Progressives Congress (APC) had in the build-up to the 2015 elections dealt Saraki and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) a deadly blow with the force of the ‘O to ge’ movement from which the latter are yet to recover.

But if current developments in the state’s chapter of PDP are anything to go by, it would seem that the Saraki camp is yet to see the worst. The former Senate President is facing a fresh revolt from the state’s working committee of the PDP. Like a bolt from the blue, the state’s secretary of the party, Abdulrazak Lawal, tendered his resignation on Tuesday, sending the party’s machinery at state and federal levels into a shock.

“We have been notified and received the resignation letter of Alhaji Razak Lawal as the state secretary of the party. We all appreciate his services and wish him well in his future endeavours,” said the state publicity secretary of the party, Prince Tunji Moronfoye in a statement.

While the dust on Lawal’s resignation is yet to settle, Dan Iya, the youth leader of PDP in the state, has gone viral on video, demanding to know how the cash meant for presidential election in the state was spent.

In the viral video, Iya dispelled insinuations that some of them in the SWC were fighting Saraki.

He said: “I don’t want people to misconceive the position of some of us in the NWC. We are not fighting Saraki and we have no reason to fight him; no basis. But the fundamental questions we are asking are: one, how much did we receive as campaign funds for the presidential election 2023? Two, who received the money? Three, how was it spent?

“There is no fight. And if there is no fight, there is no need for any reconciliation. We are not fighting the leader (Saraki). So people should not be talking of calling us together to reconcile us. These fundamental questions require answers, and that is my position as an individual. Anything short of this, count me out.

“We want accountability. We want to know how musch was received for the 2023 presidential election, who received it and how was it spent? We need independence for the party. We cannot be EXCOs and some people will be performing our functions. That is our position. Nobody is fighting anybody, talk less of reconciliation.”

Meanwhile, party EXCO members have been boycotting Saraki’s house. During the last Sallah, all EXCO members, except one, refused to pay homage to the former President of the Senate. (The Nation)

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