'One Year After, Olusola Saraki Lives On'

Date: 2013-11-10

BARELY one year after the death of Dr Abubakar Olusola Saraki The Guardian got the youngest son, Laolu, on the telephone. He gave a unique perspective of his late father often referred to as the “godfather of Kwara politics.” 

  “My father to me was my disciplinarian,” he said.

    “Like any other father, he scolded me when I was wrong and made sure that I was always well-behaved and respectful, with my feet firmly on the ground. He was extremely generous and I was never lacking in anything. He was very sensitive and always had time to solve all my worries.”

     According to Laolu, “my father was a political public figure but at the same time a very private man. He was an affectionate father who always instilled in me strong values of charity, love, respect and the importance of family. He was very close to his father and believed that his success was result of his father’s blessings. 

   “His sympathy for others is the underpin of all his attributes: his generosity not only in terms of money but of himself, his humility, his openness, his forgiving spirit and his charm. It is for these things that he was fondly referred to as “Oloye”. He was a born leader. 

  “Oloye,” Laolu said, “is not a hereditary title but more about the relationship he had with the people of Kwara, which was unique and cannot be transferred to any child.

  “ What I hope to pass on to my twin boys is his generosity of spirit, his humility, his philanthropic nature and his forgiving spirit.

     Laolu has been fortunate to have two twin boys last week in Madrid and “one,” he said, “looks so much like Daddy that my mother named him Sola. The other seems to have his charm so I have named him Olulani.” 

   Laolu Saraki has worked in the private sector and has also worked in the political administration of the late President Yar’Adua and President Goodluck. 

   He is currently the Managing Director of Supreme Offshore, a marine service company that is in partnership with Svitzer and Maersk Supply Service, part of the AP Moeller Maersk Group. 

  Laolu Saraki, with his wife, Carolina, lives a quiet life in Lagos.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ahmad Olayiwola Kamaldeen     Agboola Abdulraheem     Osi     Jebba     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Shagari     Mashood Dauda     Ilorin Airport     Abdullahi Samari     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Idowu Aremu     PharmAccess Foundation     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     Yusuf Abubakar     Saeedat Aliyu     College Of Education     Maryam A. Garuba     Siddiq Adebayo Idowu Salawu     Kabir Shagaya     Ogidi-Oloje     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     Share-Tsaragi     ER-KANG     Women Radio     Kisira     KWASIEC     Toyin Falola     Medview Airlines     Shao     YAKOOYO     Bello Oyebanji     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Anilelerin     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Falokun-Oja     Ibrahim Abdulqadir Abikan     Omotosho     Kayode Ibrahim     NFAI     Saadu Gbogbo Iwe     IEDPU     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Jawondo     Ojuekun Sarumi     Olatunji Ayeni     Cornelius Adebayo     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Raimi Iyanda     IDPU     ASMAU PLAZA     Abdulwahab Oba     Gbemisola Saraki     Ghali Alaaya     Ben Duntoye     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     African Democratic Congress     Suleman Abubakar     Kwara 2023     Tunji Olawuyi     Abdulazeez Uthman     Twitter     Muhammed Akanbi     Kazeem Oladepo     Chief Imam Of Ilorin     Egbejila     CUTI     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Kwara Liberation Group     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Sheriff Shagaya     Bond     CACOVID Palliatives     New Naira Notes    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

IPSAS     Musa Aibinu     Busari Alabi Alausa     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Nigerian Correctional Service     Shaaba Lafiagi     Kwara State Television     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Budo Egba     Nigeria Computer Society     Bolakale Saka     T And K FOODS     Tunji Oyawoye     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Amoyo     Suleiman Mora Omar     Danhawa     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     LABTOP     Labaeka     Kwara 2023     Talaka Parapo     KwaraLearn     Jumoke Gafar     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Taofik Mustapha     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     Village Alive Development Association     Donatus Ejidike     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     Erubu     Laduba     Curfew     Yusuf Mubarak     Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Ike Ekweremadu     Police Commissioner     Aisha Buhari     Ayekale     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Saliu Oluwole     Binta Abubakar Mora     Olaiya Zuberu     Michael Nzekwe     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Hakeem Lawal     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Aminat Omodara     Ojo Isekuse     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Sango-UITH Road     Kemi Adeosun     Kwara Central     Olaosebikan     Hassan Taiye Salam     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Millennium Development Goals     Teachers Specific Allowance     National Party Of Nigeria     Charles Ibitoye     Kehinde Boyede     Photo News     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Sarkin Malamai     Olawuyi     Assayomo     Simeon Sayomi     Yahaya Jibril Usman     Kaiama     Taofik Abdulkareem