Senator Ademola Adeleke, the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the forthcoming governorship
election in Osun State, has reacted to a purported court order against him from
contesting at the September polls.
A statement on Friday by Taofeek
Olayiwola, a member of his legal team, said an alleged restraining injunction
stopping the PDP and the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) from
recognising Adeleke was false.
It read: “We have copies of the
court processes filed by the plaintiffs who are members of the All Progressive
Congress, APC, the reliefs they sought and certified true copy of the orders
issued by the presiding judge.
“While the plaintiffs sought many
bogus orders, the judge only granted that the case be served on the respondents
through substituted means, that the management of WAEC produced the list of
students who sat for WAEC with the candidate and that hearing be resumed on
Wednesday September 19.
“Nowhere in the certified true
copy of the order was the candidate restrained from parading himself as
gubernatorial flagbearer and no where was INEC and the PDP barred from treating
Senator Adeleke as the candidate of the PDP for the September 22 polls.
“We affirm that Senator Adeleke
remains the bonafide candidate of the PDP for the governorship election.
“We, therefore, urge members of
the public to disregard any false rumours and fake news. No court has stopped
Senator Adeleke as a candidate. Before the law and subsisting judgements, he is
qualified and eligible to run for governorship of Osun State.”
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