PDP Warns Police Against Harassing Ademola Adeleke

Agency ReporterSeptember 19, 2018

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The party described the latest twist in the Adeleke certificate saga as horrible, nauseating and displeasing.

The Nigerian Police had shortly after the PDP rally in Osogbo where Adeleke declared the end for the ruling party in the state, invited the governorship candidate and three others to appear before its Special Investigation Panel with immediate effect in connection with alleged examination malpractices.

But in a statement issued by the party’s image maker, Kola Ologbondiyan, Wednesday, the PDP said “The sudden realization 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 All Progressives Congress, APC, to distract the PDP candidate and if possible, put him out of circulation before and during the election.

“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.

“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 National Youth Service Corps, 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,” the statement read in part.

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It called on the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris to call his men to order, adding that Osun people should be allowed to choose their governor freely, without intimidation.

Meanwhile, the Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP has challenged President Muhammadu Buhari to produce his school certificate, now that WAEC has laid to rest all allegation regarding the status of Adeleke.