BY AMOS DUNIA, ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday described the script being acted by the Nigeria police against its governorship candidate in the September 22, Osun State governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke as horrible, nauseating and displeasing.
This is just as the PDP pointedly warned the Police against acting the script of the All Progressives Congress (APC), stressing that the latest twist in the Adeleke Certificate Circus as leading to laughable trumped-up charges by the Police.
The party noted that the sudden realisation of allegations that Adeleke was involved in a National Examination Council (NECO) exam malpractice in 2017, as well as his subsequent invitation by the police, barely two days before the governorship election, is a ploy by the APC to distract the PDP candidate and if possible, put him out of circulation before and during the election.
In a statement by the spokesman of the PDP, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan said that while the PDP is in no way against any legitimate effort by any security agency in the discharge of its duties, the party however totally reject the unrelenting attempt to use trumped up charges to take down its candidate, simply because the APC has realized that he is coasting to victory.
Ologbondiyan said; “Perhaps, the police needs to be educated that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has already confirmed that Senator Adeleke wrote his WAEC examination in 1981, thus ending the earlier unnecessary controversy about his WAEC status.
“Moreover, this is the same police that have not been able to invite the disgraced erstwhile minister of finance, Kemi Adeosun, who confessed to having a forged NYSC Exemption Certificate or the Special Assistant to the President on Prosecution and Chairman of the Special Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Public Property, Chief Okoi Obono-Obla, whose certificate, WAEC openly told the National Assembly, is fake.
“More so, there are several leaders in APC, whose certificates have been questioned and which the Police have not considered it needful to conduct the littlest investigation.”
The PDP therefore called on the Inspector General of Police to protect the integrity of the Force by immediately calling his officers hounding Senator Adeleke to order.
The opposition party said the issue of who becomes the governor of Osun state resides with the people of Osun and nothing should be allowed to disrupt the peaceful conduct of the election.
