In a move that left the Sabo community in Ibadan, Oyo State shocked, the PDP governorship candidate, Senator Teslim Folarin who lost in the just concluded gubernatorial election, allegedly sent his aides to remove a transformer he earlier donated to the community.
The governorship aspirant had donated the transformer to the Hausa-dominated Sabo community few days before the election, hoping to garner votes from them.
Unfortunately, Folarin, who came fourth in the election, lost to the incumbent Governor, Sen. Abiola Ajimobi.
He conceded defeat on Saturday night even before the official results were announced and in the early hours of Sunday morning, the Sabo community woke up to see their newly installed transformer being removed.
The members of the community raised an alarm when they sighted Folarin's aides removing the Transformer but the aides did not flinch as they assiduously went about their assignment.
Members of the community immediately stormed the palace of the Sarkin Hausawa, Alhaji Ahmed Dahiru Zungeru where they expressed their concerns over the development, The Sarki waded into the matter by calling on Folarin’s political associate within the community, Alhaji Bashiru Maiborno, for clarification.
Daily Trust gathered that Maiborno made efforts to effect the return of the transformer to the community, but he was rebuffed as the community members vowed not to take back the transformer from Senator Folarin.
He however claimed that the transformer was removed with a view to keeping it in a safer place. “Senator Folarin is a man of his words,” Maiborno said to the journalists.
It would be recalled that few days before the election, Senator Folarin’s wife was spotted on a bike with some motorcycle riders campaigning for her husband in Ibadan.
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