Saraki’s Aide Claims No One Attacked Senate President at Eid Praying Ground
Bankole Omisore, the Special Assistant to the Senate President on new media, said on Thursday that no one attacked Saraki.
Bankole’s denial is contained in a statement issued in Ilorin.
The
statement said that the senate president arrived at the praying ground
without any incident and prayed alongside other Muslim faithful.
“The
senate president arrived at the venue this morning without any
incident, prayed with other Muslim faithful, including the Emir of
Ilorin, His Royal Highness (HRH), Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu Gambari,” Omisore
said in the statement.
The SA
said that Saraki spoke to reporters, who had asked for his message for
Nigerians as part of the celebration of Eid el-Kabir.
The statement reads in part, “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.”
The SA explained that
what happened was that a protest allegedly staged by local government
employees over the non-payment of their salaries was almost hijacked by
hoodlums, but were effectively stopped from doing so 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. The protest was never targeted at him; neither was any
missile hurled at him,” Omisore further said.
According
to him, the Kwara Government has since issued a statement saying that
majority of the workers in the state have received their salaries.
He
said he was optimistic that those yet to receive their salaries would
do so on Monday in view of the public holiday on Thursday and Friday.
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