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| Ademola Adeleke |
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has reacted to the
confirmation by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) that
Ademola Adeleke, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the
Osun governorship election, sat for its examination in 1981. The coalition said it was high time President Muhammadu Buhari released his own certificate.
Imo Ugochinyere, CUPP spokesperson, in a statement on Wednesday, said
the last desperate option of causing confusion among voters by pushing
for Adeleke’s disqualification has failed and the All Progressives
Congress (APC) is on the way out.
He said: “It gladdens our hearts that Senator Adeleke did not hire 13
SANs to frustrate the hearing of the case by filing numerous frivolous
applications and appeals like President Muhammadu Buhari did when
summoned to Court to produce his own certificate.
“Mr. Buhari who undeservedly prides himself as Mr. Integrity is yet
to provide his certificate; apparently because he does not have any. How
can one attach integrity to such a character? President Buhari is
hereby called upon to now direct the Army Secretary to produce the
certificate he tendered to the Army on the day he joined the Nigerian
Army.
“Having failed in this last plot to continue to hold down a resolute
Osun electorate in their mire of misgovernance, we have it on good
authority that the APC led Federal Government has activated the Nigeria
Police which has effectively turned itself into the militant wing of the
ruling Party to summon the candidate again based on concocted
allegations just to derail the sack of APC from the Osun Government
House.
“The same Nigeria Police that refused to comment or take action on
the now proven certificate forgery of former Minister of Finance, Kemi
Adeosun for over two months when her scandal broke nor the continuing
raging scandal of Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla against whom the Registrar of WAEC
had testified at a House of Representatives investigation that he
parades a fake certificate is now the Police running from pillar to post
groping for nonexistent evidence.
“Since he was rewarded with appointment as Inspector General of
Police, Ibrahim Idris has not investigated nor prosecuted any official
of this government for all the allegations of crime made against them.
The politically induced summoning of Adeleke is like a wild goose chase,
it will not achieve any noble end.
“The Buhari administration has now become shameless, purposeless,
conscienceless and clueless. The plot by the APC government working with
the Police, which now behave like the Security Arm of the APC to arrest
key opposition governorship candidates and their supporters 24 hours to
election to deprive them of the chance to make adequate preparation for
the election shall be resisted.
“We shall not allow a situation where the governorship Candidates of
the PDP (Sen. Adeleke), SDP (Sen. Omisore) and others will be locked
away by the police few hours to the election using unsubstantiated
baseless allegations”.
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