By OLA AJAYI

IBADAN—FORMER Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin, was, Wednesday, quizzed by the Oyo State Police Command.

His interrogation, which lasted three hours was sequel to a petition over his alleged romance with the former chairman of the state National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k.a. Tokyo) to disrupt the peace of the state.

Folarin said the invitation by the police was politically motivated, adding that it was a build up to the 2015 general elections.

At 1pm, his homes at Iyaganku and Oluyole areas of the city were besieged and ransacked by armed policemen.

After his release, he said he was on his way to Abeokuta to console with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on the fire that gutted his Hilltop residence, noting that it was then he got a call came from the police boss, asking him to report at the station over a petition bordering on security.

Folarin said he was in company of Chief Lekan Balogun, Deputy Senate Whip, Mr. Hosea Agboola, former Deputy-Governor of the state, Azeem Gbolarumi and Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum, Mr. Muraina Ajibola; and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chairman in the state, Mr Yinka Taiwo, when he got the call.

He explained that his relationship with Tokyo was not political but based purely on the fact that they are both from Ibadan.

He said: “Let us take it easy as politicians after all, 2015 is still far away. Power comes from God. I know this has political undertone. It could have come from anywhere not only from the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, or my party, PDP, as well.

“I am still bereaved because I am mourning my only elder brother. How would I have thought or caused breach of the peace in my darling state? Everybody knows I am a non-violent person. I am an easy going and my type of politics is always issues-based. And coincidentally, the police officer who quizzed me is my neighbour and I asked him, if he had seen me harbouring thugs or fomenting trouble with anybody in our area?”