By Ola Ajayi
IBADAN—SENATOR Tesilm Folarin, who is standing trial for alleged felony and killing of the factional chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Oyo State branch, Alhaji Lateef Salako, last Thursday has filed his bail application.

This came as eminent indigenes of Ibadanland, including the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Azeez Arisekola-Alao and some senators, yesterday trooped to Agodi Prisons to solidarise with the detained Senate Leader

The bail application for Senator Folarin and three others who were arraigned with him Tuesday was filed yesterday at the State High Court, Ibadan.

Others who were arraigned and remanded with Folarin are Ramoni Jayeola Bankole, Olaide Raji and Raimi Ismaila. The bail was filed by the lead counsel to the senator, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN.

The Commissioner of Police and the State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice were joined in the bail application.

Mr. Akeredolu had argued at the Magistrate Court that it did not have jurisdiction to entertain the suit and pleaded that his clients be remanded in Agodi Prisons pending the time proper bail application would be filed.

Meanwhile, eminent  indigenes of Ibadanland including the Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji  Azeez Arisekola-Alao and some senators yesterday trooped to Agodi Prisons to soldarise with  the Senate Leader.

Others who visited were the Otun Balogun of Ibadanland, High Chief Omowale Kuye, Chief Olufemi Lanlehin, Senators Olorunnibe Mamora, Iyiola Omisore, Dr. Adebayo Adewusi, Oloye Lekan Alabi and other supporters of the detained senator.

Lanlehin, the governorship aspirant of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN,  described the detention as political and urged the people in the state to remain calm as the situation was under control.

Senator Balogun slams PDP for upholding Oyo  factional congress

Meanwhile, Senator Lekan Balogun said the alleged reports upholding the factional congress of Oyo State PDP led by Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala was questionable.

While enjoining their supporters and followers to remain calm and await further directive, he said under no circumstances should they collaborate with “fascists, retrogressive agents of violence and underdevelopment who have visited unprecedented economic hardship on our people”.

He commended the professionalism and patriotism of the State Security Service, SSS, which said had consistently refrained from joining hands with the evil forces in the state in their desperate bid to enthrone tyranny and institutionalize the looting of the state’s treasury.