Old students of Muslim Grammar
School, Ede, (now Muslim High School 1, Ede) in Osun State, have confirmed that
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate in the 2018 governorship election
in Osun, Senator Ademola Adeleke, was a genuine member of the 1976/81 set of
the school.
They also averred that he sat for
the West African School Certificate Examination, WASCE, and finished with them
in 1981.
Controversies have trailed Adeleke’s eligibility to contest last year’s
gubernatorial election in Osun.
But his classmates of the 1976/81
set, at a press conference in Ede after a solidarity visit to his house on
Wednesday, disclosed that Adeleke was not only their classmate but had also
served meritoriously as the president of the school’s Old Boys’ Association for
four years.
The classmates also argued that
if he did not sit for the WASCE and finished from the school, he wouldn’t have
been eligible to emerge as the president of the association.
The classmates present at the
press briefing included Ademola Oyelakin, Mukaila Olapade, Mukaila Ayola, Dauda
Okanlawon, Bolaji Adebayo and Ajibola Nureni.
Spokesperson of the set, Dr
Olapade Mukaila noted that “all the attempts by some people spitting out
hatefulness in their biles to run down Senator Ademola Adeleke is only an
attempt to try God’s will and an effort in futility.”
The statement read in part: “Our
1976/’81 set sat for the final West Africa School Certificate Examination and
we had our names, including Senator Ademola Adeleke’s recorded in its ledger as
presented by an assistant registrar of the body (WAEC) when he was called upon
by an FCT court, Abuja.
“What further proofs are Senator
Ademola Adeleke’s antagonists looking for to confirm his attendance and
participation in the 1981 WASCE with the rest of us?
“Senator Ademola Adeleke’s five-year
tenure at the Muslim Grammar School together with us were years we shall
proudly refer to as years well spent in our formative years. We of the
1976/1981 set of which Senator Ademola Adeleke was a part could, with all sense
of responsibility and patriotic zeal, affirm that the distinguished Senator
gave a good account of himself as our classmate.
“We stand tall behind the
distinguished senator as one of our own in the 1976/’81 set of Muslim Grammar
School Ede (as it was then). No amount of intimidation and mean measures by
Senator Ademola Adeleke’s detractors will ever remove that fact of our togetherness
at Muslim Grammar School, Ede.
“We wish to state that Ademola
Adeleke is the Moses of Osun State whom God has duly anointed to be a star
among stars.”
Mukaila, however, appealed to all
the classmates to be steadfast in their solidarity for Senator Adeleke.
”We should not allow ourselves to
be used for any dirty tricks of Ademola Adeleke’s avowed enemies in their bid
to score cheap political points.
“We are resolute that Ademola
Adeleke belongs to our set and no force on earth can make us deny him as some
unscrupulous people want us to do.
“Our good friend, Ademola
Adeleke, should fear not, for we, who are with him are more than they who are
unjustifiably against him.
”We take joy to state
unequivocally that he was a focussed individual with a clear vision for the
good of his fellow students during our time at the Muslim Grammar School, Ede,”
he said.
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