For many years to come the vacuum created by the death of Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki, the man who throughout his life time was considered the central figure in Kwara politics may be difficult to fill by any politician from that state. His death according to pundits had ended an era of more than four decades of politics of the state.
Saraki, a former Senate leader in the Second Republic who was widely known as the godfather of Kwara politics, died last week in Lagos in his sleep. He was 79. Before his death he had been battling cancer for about five years and had been in and out of hospitals at home and abroad in the last one and a half years.
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