According to a report by Daily Trust,a transformer
donated to the people of Sabo community in
Ibadan, Oyo State by PDP governorship candidate
in the state, Sen. Teslim Folarin, was removed a day
after the election on Sunday April 12th by some
aides of the former Senate Leader.
He had donated the transformer just weeks prior to
the election, but when he came 4th in the election,
he probably decided the people were not loyal
enough and took back his gift.
An alarm raised by members of the Sabo
community on sighting those removing the
Transformer in the early hours of Sunday did not
move the perpetrators who eventually removed the
transformer to an unknown place.
Members of the Sabo community instantly stormed
the palace of the Sarkin Hausawa, Alhaji Ahmed
Dahiru Zungeru where they expressed their worry,
a development which compelled the Sarki to wade
into the matter by calling on Folarin's political
associate within the community, Alhaji Bashiru
Maiborno, for clarification.
Daily Trust gathered that it was at this stage that
Baiborno spiritedly made moves to effect the return
of the transformer to Sabo community, but he was
rebuffed as the Sabo community vowed not to take
back the transformer from Senator Folarin.
Efforts by our correspondent to get Senator
Folarin's personal reaction on the development was
futile as he could not be reached.
Maiborno however insisted that the transformer
was removed with a view to keeping it in a safer
place. "Senator Folarin is a man of his words,"
Maiborno told inquisitive journalists.
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