Senate President Bukola Saraki announced on Monday November 14th that a prayer service will be held for the fourth anniversary of his father, Dr. Olusola Saraki’s death.
Saraki’s father the late Olusola Saraki, who himself was a Senator of the Nigerian Second Republic (1979-1983), died on November 14, 2016. He was aged 78.
He was born on the 17th of May, 1933 at Ilorin, Kwara State.His mother was from Iseyin in Oyo State and his father was from Ilorin. His paternal ancestors were Fulanis who came from Mali about 150 to 200 years earlier. He was educated at Eko Boys High School and attended the University of London, and St George’s Hospital Medical School, London. He worked as a medical officer at the General Hospital, Lagos and the Creek Hospital, Lagos.
He was highly influential in installing his son, Bukola as governor of Kwara State in 2003 and his daughter, Gbemisola as a Senator in the same year. However, he could not repeat the feat in 2011 when he presented Gbemisola as successor for Bukola. He had to contend with his son the outgoing governor, who had a totally different agenda.
When the Senate president announced the remembrance on Monday, many people reacted in different ways. Many sympathised with him and dropped a few lines of prayers, while some others were indifferent and some went out of their ways to say some nasty things.
Below are screenshots of the comments.
