‘You Lie,’ Saraki’s Wife Blasts Police Over Fresh Claim On Siege

Wife of Senate President, Toyin Saraki, has reacted to siege on their Abuja residence by men of the Nigerian Police.

Recall that armed policemen on Tuesday besieged the residence of the Senate President and also blocked his convoy at Lake Chad Junction, Maitama, yesterday morning.

The move followed an earlier invitation by the police for “further investigation on his (Saraki’s) indictment from confessional statements from some of the five gang leaders arrested for their active participation in the Offa bank robbery”.

But in a statement same Tuesday, Police Spokesman Jimoh Moshood, denied deploying personnel to the resident of the Senate President, saying “the police personnel seen in pictures in the media were those in the convoy of the Senate President and others attached to him”.

“The Nigeria Police Force’s attention was also drawn to the innuendos in the early hours of today that some Police men were seen surrounding the residence of the Senate President; the Force wishes to categorically state that there was no authorised deployment of Police personnel to besiege the residence of the Senate President or his deputy as reported in the media,” Moshood had said.

While speaking on Channels Television flagship program, Sunrise Daily, on Wednesday morning, Moshood also claimed the vehicles that blocked the road belonged to the Senate President and his wife.

But reacting almost immediately, Mrs Saraki, who denied the claim, warned the police spokesman to leave her out of “this unseemly contretemps”.

Dear @channelstv @sunrisedailynow I am absolutely flabbergasted by @PoliceNG Jimoh Moshood on TV attempting to claim that these white vehicles that blockaded the road outside our Abuja residence could possibly be "protection provided to the Wife of the Senate President" ! pic.twitter.com/QGK5yckijD

— Toyin Saraki (@ToyinSaraki) July 25, 2018

Firstly I have never received any vehicle from @PoliceNG
Secondly, I believe these vehicles bear a striking resemblance to cars donated by my dear brother @AlikoDangote.
I hope DSP Jimoh Moshood can leave me out of this unseemly contretemps. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/Q9uliPkrZt

— Toyin Saraki (@ToyinSaraki) July 25, 2018

It was bad enough that I was forced to endure a mass invasion of my privacy, with the mis-identification of a guest at a private family occasion, falsely, as one of the @PoliceNG Offa Bank Robbery suspects. The Police did nothing to correct this widely circulated falsehood. pic.twitter.com/dKau9yUYYF

— Toyin Saraki (@ToyinSaraki) July 25, 2018