The Peoples Democratic Party in Kwara State said it had no hand in alleged petition to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission against Toyin, the wife of the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki.
The denial is coming after pressure from the national headquarters of the party to the state chapter to rescind an earlier statement on Sunday saying it was the petitioner in the alleged fraud case against Toyin Saraki.
The statement was issued by the state Publicity Secretary of the party, Rex Olawoye.
The statement on Monday denying its earlier position was jointly signed by its state Chairman, Chief Iyiola Oyedepo and Olawoye.
It also distanced itself from a statement entitled: “PDP claims responsibility for Toyin Saraki’s EFCC ordeal,” allegedly credited to the party and purportedly signed by Olawoye.
It described the publication as the handiwork of dubious, desperate, faceless and spineless individuals or groups who were out to “malign characters and damage their superiors in order to gain cheap popularity”.
The statement added: “PDP in Kwara wants to state without mincing words that the said statement runs counter to our avowed position of establishing credible and constructive opposition to the ruling APC government in Kwara.
“We have always dwelled, discussed and criticized issues taken by the ruling government that might not give Kwara state its deserved growth and development.
“We have never discussed people and we shall never discuss people or attack individual for its own sake.”
According to the PDP, the said statement alluded to the fact the PDP had at one time in the year petitioned EFCC against Toyin Saraki.
It added: “We want to put it on record that Kwara PDP has never at any time written any petition on anybody in the state as far as the party is concerned.
“We therefore emphatically state that all the statements credited to Kwara PDP are products/machinations of people who are disgruntled as well as spineless.”
The party remarked that the authors of the statement had the audacity to “write frivolous articles but lacked courage to brief authentic party officials”.
It maintained that the said statement was politically motivated and emanated from persons who had issues with the President of the Senate and his immediate family.
“PDP in Kwara wants to warn such individual or group of people who take delight in maligning others through malicious and incriminating publications to desist henceforth,” it said.
Toyin Saraki is due to appear for grilling at the head office of the EFCC on Tuesday (today).
She has been accused of complicity in the fraudulent award and execution of some contracts while her husband held sway as the Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011.
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