The Abubakar Bukola Saraki Media Office has described the Kwara State Government’s withdrawal of all 18 Offa armed robbery-related charges against two former governors of the state
The Abubakar Bukola Saraki Media Office has described the Kwara State Government’s withdrawal of all 18 Offa armed robbery-related charges against two former governors of the state, Dr Abubakar Saraki and Abdulfatah Ahmed, as an embarrassment to the state and an abuse of judicial process.
This comes as some politicians, including the Kwara South Senatorial candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Saheed Popoola, confessed over the weekend that they linked Saraki to the robbery case in which over 25 people, including policemen, were killed, for political motives.
Popoola said he aligned with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the movement that removed Saraki.
Meanwhile, in a statement yesterday, Saraki’s Media Office, Yusuph Olaniyonu, described the amendment of the charges as ridiculous, mischievous, ill-intentioned, and a further attempt to abuse the judicial process.
He said Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq’s amendment to the charge sheet only revealed that there was no case against the two former governors from the beginning, and that the state government was indulging in abuse of power, which he described as “a travesty of the justice system, and mockery of the prosecutorial powers of the state.”
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