The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has accused the police of attempting to take down Ademola Adeleke, its
candidate in the Osun gubernatorial election.
The party said this in reaction
to the invitation of Adeleke by the police over alleged examination
malpractice.
In a statement, Kola
Ologbondiyan, publicity secretary of the PDP, accused the police of acting the
script of the All Progressives Congress (APC) government.
Ologbondiyan said the APC had
become jittery because it knows that the PDP is coasting to victory in the
election.
He wondered why the police did
not go after APC members with questionable certificates.
“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,” the statement read.
“While the PDP is in no way
against any legitimate effort by any security agency in the discharge of its
duties, we totally reject this unrelenting attempt to use trumped up charges to
take down our candidate, simply because the APC has realised that he is
coasting to victory.
“Perhaps, the police need 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.
“Moreso, 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
calls on the inspector-general of police to protect the integrity of the force
by immediately calling his officers hounding Senator Adeleke to order.”
Ologbondiyan said nothing should
be allowed to disturb the peaceful conduct of the election as it is the people
who would choose the next governor of the state.
The election is scheduled for
Saturday.
President Muhammadu Buhari has
ordered the police not to invite Adeleke till the election is over.
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