The lawmaker representing Osun West senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has faulted allegation that he presented forged school results to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, during the last governorship election in Osun State.<\/p>\n
While making a juxtaposition between the WAEC certificate issues of President Muhammadu Buhari and Adeleke yesterday, the spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has claimed that the lawmaker forged his own certificate.<\/p>\n
Adeleke said that Keyamo, a senior lawyer, acted out of ignorance.<\/p>\n
The Senator, stated this in a statement signed by Niyi Owolade for the Ademola Adeleke campaign Organisation.<\/p>\n
He said he did not, at any time forge any certificate for election or any other purpose.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur attention has been drawn to a tweet credited to Mr. Festus Keyamo that Senator Ademola Adeleke forged a statement of result he presented for election and that WAEC did not attest his certificate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe suspect that Mr. Keyamo must have been misinformed or failed to get his facts correctly.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor his information and that of the general public, both WAEC and the school principal of Ede Muslim High school, Ede attested Senator Adeleke\u2019s result through sworn affidavits before FCT High Court, Bwari.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe advise the President\u2019s campaign spokesman to get his facts straight before making public statements.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing a Senior Advocate of Nigeria demands that level of responsibility. Senator Ademola Adeleke did not at any time forge any certificate for this election or for any other purpose.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet us repeat for the umpteenth time that the principal of Ede Muslim High School, Ede and WAEC were summoned by the court in a case filed by the APC against Senator Adeleke.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe principal through a sworn affidavit attested the statement of results presented by the PDP candidate for his election and a Deputy Registrar of WAEC did the same through an affidavit of evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two affidavits were widely published in the newspapers and are available in court papers. WAEC not only attested Adeleke\u2019s result, the school authority, through the principal also did.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this stage in Osun election cases, all the facts are in public domain and nothing can be spinned again.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst, the public is fully aware that both WAEC and the Principal attested to Adeleke\u2019s qualification.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecondly, by the combined effect of Sections 177 and 318 of the 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, Senator Ademola Adeleke is qualified to contest for the office of a State Governor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThirdly and much more critical, WAEC and the principal affirmed in their respective affidavits that there was no forgery as results submitted by Adeleke tallied with their records.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wish to conclude by informing the public once again that apart from the above attestation of Adeleke\u2019s qualification, there are two subsisting high court judgments, affirming Senator Adeleke\u2019s eligibility to contest for office if Governor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawmaker representing Osun West senatorial district at the National Assembly, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has faulted allegation that he presented forged school results to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, during the last governorship election in Osun State. While making a juxtaposition between the WAEC certificate issues of President Muhammadu Buhari and Adeleke yesterday, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":8471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[251,297,516,564],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-inec","tag-keyamo","tag-osun","tag-spokesperson"],"yoast_head":"\n