Background
Olusola Saraki was born on the 17th of May, 1933 at Ilorin, Kwara State and died in Lagos November 14, 2012. His mother was from Iseyin in Oyo State and his father was from Ilorin.
politician Member of the Senate of Nigeria
Olusola Saraki was born on the 17th of May, 1933 at Ilorin, Kwara State and died in Lagos November 14, 2012. His mother was from Iseyin in Oyo State and his father was from Ilorin.
Olusola Sakari was educated at Eko Boys High School. He attended the University of London, and Street George’s Hospital Medical School, London.
He was a ranking nobleman of the Ilorin Emirate. His paternal ancestors were Fulanis who came from Mali about 150 to 200 years earlier. He worked as a medical officer at the General Hospital, Lagos and the Creek Hospital, Lagos.
Olusola Sakari died on Wednesday 14 November 2012 in Lagos at the age of 79 after a losing a battle with cancer.
He was laid to rest in Ilorin. In 1979 he was elected a Senator of the Second Republic, and became Senate Leader.
In 1983 Saraki was re-elected into the Senate on the National Party of Nigeria (NPN) platform. He assisted Mohammed Alabi Lawal in becoming Governor of Kwara State.
In 2001 he was head of a team from the Arewa Consultative Forum, a Northern cultural and political group, sent to meet and discuss common goals with Northern state governors and other leaders.
In March 2003, the Societe Generale Bank (SGBN) of which Saraki was chairman was investigated by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for alleged money laundering. Later, SGBN was investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) under Nuhu Ribadu, and its license was temporarily suspended.
Olusola Sakari first entered politics when he ran in the 1964 parliamentary election for Ilorin as an independent, but failed to win. After the election, he returned to his medical practice in Lagos, only returning to party-politics in 1978/79.
In 1977, Olusola Saraki was elected as a member of the Constituent Assembly that produced the 1979 constitution. In 1998, Olusola Saraki became a National Leader and member of the Board of Trustees of the All People"s Party (APP), contributing to the APP success in Kwara and Kogi States.