We did not petition Saraki"s wife; our signature was forged - PDP

THE authorship of the petition against the wife of the Senate President, Toyin Saraki, is now mired in fresh allegation of forgery.

Toyin Saraki
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The Kwara State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Olawoye, whose imprints the controversial petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) bore as the authors, on Monday, dissociated themselves from it.

In an interview, Olawoye said neither him nor PDP had anything to do with the petition accusing Toyin of money laundering as the first lady of Kwara State.

He added that his signature on the petition was forged, while the authorship credited to PDP, was pure impersonation.

Olawoye disclosed that PDP in the state called an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss the forgery and fashion a way out, on how to redress the situation.

The party spokesperson stated that it was high time the party tamed the monster of forgery and impersonation that certain people are always dragging it into in the politics of the state, adding that the current situation was the second time such would happen.

Senator Joseph Waku had accused former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, of being behind the petition, an allegation Tinubu denied.

In his words Olawoye said, “I have nothing to do with the petition. You know over the time, I have built myself certain level of reputation because I am almost 30 years in the business of politicking. They just wanted to use a credible name, that is the truth and nothing but the truth. What happened is that there are some people in the corner of their room who wrote the petition and put my name on it and the media bought it.

There was never any time as the publicity secretary of the party that I endorsed or authorised that any petition should be sent to the EFCC. That was not the first time they would write. There was a time they wrote that our party and particularly me as the spokesperson, wrote that the governor of Kwara State used only N1.5 billion of the package from the Federal Government for salaries and carted away about N2 billion.

“Then I decided to allow sleeping dog lie but now that they are doing it again, it is time for me to react. Media managers should try to authenticate sources of information and clear with such sources before using such information. When names are mentioned, media houses should verify with such persons to get to the heart of the matter truthfully.”

We did not petition Saraki"s wife; our signature was forged - PDP