Bukola Saraki's Wife Toyin And His Sister Gbemi Still At War...

 

 According to TheCapital.Ng As you read this, Toyin Saraki, the Senate President, 

Bukola Saraki’s wife is still engaged in a battle of ego and will with Gbemi Saraki, 

his younger sister.

Even though his husband and her sister, Gbemisola, have settled the protracted rift that 

almost tore their filial ties to shreds, Toyin has allegedly refused to warm up to her sister-in-law. 

Curiously, however, a celebrated marriage between a cocker spaniel and a tabby cat 

couldn’t have generated greater uproar than this. Long before the death of late Olushola Saraki, 

their family patriarch and the Waziri of Ilorin, there had been an unending feud between 

his two eldest children, Bukola, who was then the governor of Kwara State and his sister, 

Senator Gbemisola.

The dispute between the duo started off when Gbemisola declared her interest in the 

governorship seat of the state, an ambition that would enable her succeed her brother, 

Bukola, if she had won. The late Waziri of Ilorin, their father supported Gbemisola's 

gubernatorial ambition, he withdrew his support for his older son, Bukola, who was seeking 

a second-term in office at the period. Gbemisola eventually contested for the seat on the 

platform of the Allied Congress Party (ACP).

This simmering war between the late Waziri’s children dragged on until his death and during 

the one year memorial service Gbemisola and her other siblings, Tope and Laolu, distanced 

themselves from their brother Bukola. It became glaring even to outsiders that the siblings 

were at war as they left immediately after the memorial service in a chartered flight, leaving 

Bukola and his guests at the venue.

However, even though Bukola and Gbemisola have settled their differences, Toyin, Bukola's 

wife, has refused to bury the hatchet; she is still allegedly pounding the drums of war, even as 

you read this.

Sources close to the family revealed that Toyin is particularly miffed over what she terms as 

Gbemisola's effrontery and betrayal of her brother. Friends and family members have tried to 

pinpoint the root of their malice to petty sibling rivalry and egoism but they have failed in their 

efforts. The cold war has been raging between them for too long and efforts by very close family 

and friends to intervene and make them resolve their differences have been rebuffed.

Not even the intervention of their immediate family could convince them to tow a peaceful 

path rather they have continued to wallow in acrimony and fan the embers of discord as if 

their individual survival depends on it.