Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin
Former Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Kolawole Folarin, has been quizzed by the Oyo State police command for alleged stock piling of arms
He was also quizzed for allegedly holding nocturnal meeting with the
embattled former chairman of the state National Union of Road Transport
Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (aka Tokyo), to disrupt the
peace of the state.
The former senate leader was reportedly grilled for more than three hours over a petition allegedly written against him.
As at the time of filing this report, the author of the said petition
could not be ascertained, while Folarin described the petition as “build
up to the 2015 election in the state.”
His Oluyole and Iyaganku residences were also raided by the state
police command for alleged stock-piling of arms. His home was allegedly
besieged by about 100 armed officers of the command.
Folarin, after his release by the police commissioner, alleged foul
play on the way and manner his houses were searched by the officers, who
claimed they were with search warrant to conduct thorough searches of
his entire households.
He said he was on his way to Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, to
console with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, over the recent fire
disaster at his Hilltop residence and later meet a lawyer in Lagos over
his brother’s Will, when a call came that the police boss wanted to see
him over a petition bothering on security.
The former Senate leader, who was in company of his wife, Angela, Chief
Lekan Balogun, the incumbent Deputy Senate Whip, Hosea Ayoola Agboola,
former Deputy-Governor of the state, Azeem Gbolarumi; Chairman, House of
Representatives Committee on Petroleum, Muraina Ajibola, PDP Chairman
in the state, Yinka Taiwo, and Tajudeen Abass Alesinloye to the Eleyele
police command, said he was stunned that politicians could resort to
blackmail just three days in 2013, when 2015 was still far away.
On his alleged romance with Tokyo, Folarin said his relationship with
the embattled NURTW boss was just that of an Ibadan brother, stressing
that the last two occasions he saw Tokyo were during the burial of
Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s mother and the fidau of his late brother,
Alhaji Suleman Emiola, respectively.
Folarin, who said he was still mourning his late brother, ondered why
anybody could link him to NURTW members an an attempt to disrupt the
peace of the state.
“My relationship with Tokyo is just purely of an Ibadan man to another
Ibadan man. Let us take it cool as politicians after all, 2015 is still
far away. Power comes from God. I know this has political undertone. It
could have come from anywhere not only from the ruling Action Congress
of Nigeria (ACN) but also my party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
as well.
“I am still bereaved because I am mourning my only elder blood brother.
How would I have thought or caused breach of the peace of my darling
state? Everybody knows I am non-violent person. I am an easy going and
my type of politics is always issues-based. And coincidentally, the ACP
who quizzed me is my neighbour and I asked him have you ever seen me
harbouring thugs or fomenting trouble with anybody in our area?
“All that happened nevertheless, I salute the courage of the police
commissioner and his team of professional officers for the way and
manner they handled the matter. It shows nobody is big or above the law
of the land. And I must also appeal to our politicians to always take it
easy and allow God’s wish to manifest in our plans and aspirations.
Power comes from God alone,” he added.
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