The strongman of Kwara politics
and Senate leader in the Second Republic, Dr. Olusola Saraki, is dead.
He died in the early hours of
Wednesday morning at his Cameroon Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, residence.
The immensely popular politician
had been sick for a while.
His son, former Governor of Kwara
State, Senator Bukola Saraki departed Abuja for Lagos Wednesday morning to
convey his father’s body to Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, for burial in
accordance with Islamic rites
The elder Saraki’s body will be
interred at 4pm Wednesday in Ilorin