Second Republic Senate leader, Dr. Olusola Saraki Sunday pleaded with the people of Kwara state especially those from Ilorin Emirate to save him from disgrace by voting for his daughter and the Allied Congress Party of Nigerian (ACPN) gubernatorial candidate in the next month election, Senator Gbemisola Saraki.

The elder  Saraki popularly known  as 'Olooye' made the plea in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital during the official flag off  of ACPN's campaign in Kwara Central which held  at the frontage of the palace of the Emir of Ilorin, Oja-Oba, Ilorin.

But the Emir, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari who had traveled out of the state since Saturday, was conspicuously absent at the event as none of his high Chiefs (Baloguns) and the Chief Imam of Ilorin were present at the ceremony.

Saraki in an emotionally laden voice lamented that those he had helped to prominence were the ones now condemning him for fielding his daughter as a gubernatorial candidate.

According to him "I have always been there for Ilorin and Kwara progress all my life. But what I am seeing, hearing, and witnessing today are insults and abuses from all those very junior to me in all respects.

His words " I don't  have more than one three bedroom flat each in Lagos and Ilorin and only renting one in Abuja. Yet, those now abusing me were those who have immensely benefited from my good will and now have mansions in choice cities of the world."

Saraki told his supporters that he was never a card carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because the party had failed to  separate the party from personality, saying that this  has brought about indiscipline among PDP members.

Presenting the ACPN's candidates to his supporters, the elder statesman asked them rhetorically whether he should be rest assured  that they would ensure the victory of the candidates at all level during the April polls.