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Olusola Saraki - The Kingmaker

Hate him or like him, Saraki has come to represent a standing politician whose hold and influence on his people is like a mystic talisman. Over the years, Saraki has come to represent the eye and soul of politics in Kwara state. Right from the second republic, the Kwara electorate, no matter the gang-up of his critics, have faithfully (and almost blindly) walked only in the direction pointed by Saraki.

Generous and astute, Saraki will give up any and everything to retain his laurel as the grandmaster of Kwara politics. In 2003, he inadvertently gave up his bank Societe General Bank) to prove he is the man in-charge. It is thus a credit to that degree of sticky astuteness that his household controls the political firmament of Kwara politics. His son, Bukola is the governor of the state, his daughter, Gbemisola, is a senator in the state, himself is a delegate to the National Political Reforms Conference. And hardly is anybody anywhere in Kwara without the blessing or concession of Saraki.

His brand of politics may be totalitarian, but the point remains that he connects deeply with is electorate, a devotion that makes the masses of the state often lose their wisdom to his wiles and manipulations. Also an elder statesman, his wealth and political connections have always put him in the front row of the public gallery.

This Day
2005

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