Toyin Saraki’s woes not our making –PDP

The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party on Monday refuted an earlier claim that it was responsible for the petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on wife of the Senate President, Toyin Saraki.

The party in the state washed its hands off the petition which prompted the agency to invite Mrs Saraki for questioning today on allegations of money laundering.

Mrs. Saraki is being invited by the EFCC to appear in relation to several contracts executed by companies said to be linked to her and her husband, BUkola Saraki when he was the governor of Kwara State.

The state PDP, in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman, Mr. Iyiola Oyedepo, and Publicity Secretary, Chief Rex Olawoye, said the state branch of the party did not write any petition to the EFCC against Saraki’s wife.

It stated that the publication that the party was involved in Toyin’s ordeal was politically motivated. The party said it emanated from those who had issues with the Senate President and his immediate family.

Read also: Toyin Saraki: PDP exonerates Tinubu

It said, “The attention of our party, the PDP, Kwara State chapter, has been drawn to a publication…titled, “PDP claims responsibility for Toyin Saraki’s EFCC ordeal,” and credited to our spokesman, Chief Rex Olawoye.

“First, the Kwara State PDP dissociates itself from the said publications. The publication is the handiwork of dubious, desperate, faceless and spineless individuals or groups who are always in the mass and social media to malign characters and damage their superiors in order to gain cheap popularity.

“We want to put it on record that the Kwara State PDP has never at any time written any petition on anybody in the state, as far as the party is concerned. The Kwara State PDP has no hand in the imbroglio that is going on between the EFCC and Mrs. Toyin Saraki. We therefore emphatically state that all the statements credited to the Kwara State PDP are products/mechanisations of people who are disgruntled. They are spineless cowards.”

Ripples… without borders, without fears

Join the conversation

Opinions

Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism

Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.

As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.

If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.

Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.

Donate Now