Former Security Adviser to ex-Governor of Kwara State Bukola Saraki, Yinka Aluko who is the Kwara Central Senatorial candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has dismissed rumour that Saraki is sponsoring in the PDP.

Aluko, who worked with Saraki for eight years, did not follow his former boss to the All Progressives Congress (APC), opting to remain in the PDP.

Speaking in Ilorin shortly after meeting with party delegates in the 52 wards that made the senatorial district, Aluko urged the people of Kwara to shun religious consideration in the 2015 elections, advising voters to rally round the party's governorship candidate, Senator Simeon Ajibola to win the election.

He said it was unfortunate that he was being touted as Saraki's stooge, boasting that PDP would win all elections next year.

"It is quite unfortunate if any right thinking person can imagine that I am being sponsored. People know my background. Yes, we worked together for eight good years and I must confess to you that I was the arrow head of the struggle that brought him (Saraki) as a governor.

"So to say that I'm sponsored by him is a cheap blackmail. It is a rumour within the circle of PDP. We know them. We know why they are saying it. Despite what they have said, people said they don't want them and they voted for us. So it is an unfounded rumour."