By Umar Bayo Abdulwahab
Ilorin
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, Dr Bukola Saraki, has denied sponsoring a “dirty love triangle between President Goodluck Jonathan, his wife, Patience and Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke.”
A statement issued by Saraki’s media aide, Bamikole Omishore, said: “The attention of the media office of Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki has been drawn to a purported allegation by Peoples Democratic Party that Senator Bukola Saraki, who is one of the leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and a crusader of change in Nigeria, is sponsoring a ‘Dirty Love Triangle between President Jonathan, Patience and Diezani’.
“Senator Saraki will like to state categorically without any iota of doubt that he is not aware of any love triangle between the president and the two women in question and therefore has not been, and he is not going to be, involved in any way, manner or process of commissioning of such documentary.
“Senator Saraki has always centred all his argument on issues that affect the lives of Nigerians. Such issues include but not limited to unemployment, mismanagement of public funds, and non-implementation of the budgetary provisions, just to name a few.
“These are the things that affect Nigerians and as a senator of the Federal Republic these are the issues Nigerians want the senators to debate and not the private affairs of Mr. President.
“Senator Saraki is aware that the reason why the PDP is pushing such a ridiculous story is because it has been the trademark of the PDP of recent to blackmail members of the opposition with spurious and cooked-up allegations.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we have concrete evidence at our disposal to the effect that the recent bad press Senator Saraki has been receiving lately surrounding an old issue of over a number of years involving a bank loan and company called Joy Petroleum are directly orchestrated by the Presidency, particularly documents sent by email to the judiciary correspondents for their use.
“Senator Saraki is aware that the PDP has been going around Kwara state bribing and begging people to partake in a documentary against him to cause disaffection in the eyes of the public, having adjudged him a threat in the forthcoming general elections.
So it’s funny to now hear that the same party that’s organising such a documentary and from the beginning of this campaign have threaded on this dishonourable course using their own words should be accusing others of what they intend to do.
“So this so-called alarm on any documentary targeted at Jonathan, Diezani is just diversionary tactics in preparation of what they intend to do.”