The People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the September 22, 2018 election in Osun
state, Senator Ademola Adeleke, was this Wednesday morning, arraigned before
Justice I. E. Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
The lawmaker and four
others were docked based on a four-count charge of examination malpractices
filed against them by the Nigerian Police.
The Inspector General of
Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, through the Prosecuting Counsel, Simon Lough, had
on September 19, 2018 filed the charge against Adeleke and his four co-accused.
Charged by the Police
alongside Adeleke were Sikiru Adeleke, the Principal of Ojo-Aro Community
Grammar School; Alhaji Aregbesola Muftau, the Registrar of the School;
Gbadamosi Ojo and a teacher in the school, Dare Samuel Olutope.
The police accused the five
defendants of committing examination malpractices by fraudulently, through
impersonation, registering Adeleke and another Sikiru Adeleke, as students of
Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, in Ojo-Aro in Osun State, for the National
Examination Council’s June/July 2017 Senior School Certificate Examination in
February 2017.
At Wednesday’s sitting, the
defendants all pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against them, and
alleged political withchunt.
Adeleke was however granted
bail on self-recognizance by Justice I.E Ekwo.
He was ordered to deposit
his international passport with the registrar. He was also asked to sign a bond
stating that he will always be present at his trial.
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