If there was ever a doubt that there is crisis in the immediate family of late strongman of Ilorin politics, Dr. Olusola Saraki, the first anniversary prayer held in Ilorin on Friday, 14th November, 2013 put paid to it.

The prayer, which was organized by Sen. Bukola Saraki in the memory of his late father, was attended by the crème-de-la-crème of the Nigerian political space as well as industrial gurus like the Governors of Kano, Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Mr. Femi Fani Kayode, Alhaji Aliko Dangote and a host of others.

Also present were popular Islamic clerics from within and outside the state who thronged Ilorin, the Kwara State capital for the anniversary prayer.

But there was more to the prayers than just the dignitaries; out of the four children of late Dr. Olusola Saraki, it was only Sen. Bukola Saraki that surfaced at the prayer session which held at the Ilorin Grand Mosque, an imposing multi-Billion Naira edifice that was recently commissioned by Vice President Namadi Sambo.

Throughout the duration of the prayer, the other three sibling of Sen. Bukola Saraki refused to show up at the occasion despite that they were in Ilorin. Daily Post correspondent gathered that Sen. Gbemisola Rukayat Saraki in company of Laolu and Tope arrived Ilorin early yesterday by 8:05am, went straight to their father's popular Ile-loke residence with a handful of Islamic clerics, prayed privately inside the elder Saraki's mausoleum and left hurriedly at about 10:15am, the same time the prayer in the mosque was billed to commence.

When reporters, who had gathered at the airport, attempted to interview Sen. Gbemi Saraki, she just waved a smile and asked that she be allowed to catch her chattered flight which was almost departing.

Sources close to Sen. Gbemi disclosed that she considered the gathering 'more political' than 'religious'. She was quoted as saying that she could 'not be party to a gathering meant more to obliterate my dad's enduring legacies than nurture it'.

The sources, who craved anonymity, revealed that her visit, in company of Laolu and Tope, was meant to send a strong signal to 'whoever that cared that she is not on the same age with Sen. Bukola Saraki because he has destroyed the legacies of their father'.

Revealing further, our source stated that 'Gbemi is opposed to Bukola's anti-Jonathan posture because it is the direct opposite of what her late father would do.

Bukola should have asked himself, what would my father, whose structure I have now captured, do in this circumstance? Would my dad have gone against the tide, against the mainstream and join a fringe group that is poised to destroy rather than build? These are the questions he should be asking himself but he has failed to do because of his greed, arrogance and ill-manner!', Daily Post source angrily retorted.