The purported court injunction supposedly granted the Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has been described as a ruse by the police. National Mirror investigations revealed that Saraki has filed an exparte motion before Justice Gladys Olotu of the Federal High Court in Abuja to prevent the police from arresting him to respond to charges that he directly benefited from a N21bn bank loan fraud, but the judge declined to grant an order of restraint.

However, a statement issued by his media office of the Chairman, Senate Committee on the Environment, implied that a temporary injunction had been granted the former governor by the court.

The statement stated that the injunction prevented the Special Fraud Unit of the Police from arresting and interrogating him over the bank loan fraud involving some of his aides and companies.

Saraki's lawyer, Mr. Lawal Rabana (SAN) had approached a Federal High Court in Abuja with an exparte motion application to obtain an interim injunction against the police, the application sought to enforce the Senator's constitutional rights.

But Justice Olotu refused to accept the ex-parte application and advised that the police be served with the motion on notice which was filed alongside the ex-parte application to enable the court hear both parties on the substantive motion today

The press statement issued by Akin Fatogun, a media assistant to Dr. Saraki read: "As a lawabiding citizen, Senator Saraki decided to seek legal redress to put an end to what appears to be an orchestrated frenzy calculated at smearing his name, assaulting his dignity and intimidating his person through deliberately garbled accounts and serial leaks concerning loans granted to a company that he has no connection with.

Senator Saraki is indeed in receipt of a letter from the Police Special Anti-Fraud Unit, Lagos, inviting him to assist its investigations of a case of conspiracy, forgery and stealing the sum of N21bn belonging to Joy Petroleum Ltd.'

"Saraki has made it clear on many occasions that he has no relations with Joy Petroleum and wishes to so restate. While taking note of and displeased with the tendentious attempts to prosecute and persecute him on the pages of the media, Senator Saraki has asked the court to determine whether he could be invited by the police to assist in investigating a matter in which he is not linked and for which no specific allegation has been made against him."

Speaking with National Mirror yesterday, the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Special Fraud Unit, Mr. Tunde Ogunsakin, confirmed that the former governor only drew a wool over the unit's eyes and adding that there was no court injunction restraining him from inviting Saraki for interrogation.

"Of course, there was no court injunction restraining us from inviting or investigating him in this case. I can assure you that we are on top of the case and we will do the needy to get to the root of the matter".

Sources at the SFU said that the former governor may be arrested on the court premises or on the floors of the National Assembly before the end of the week.