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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