Osun Guber: ‘Keyamo Was Either Misinformed, Or Got His Facts Wrong On Adeleke’ – Campaign Org
The Oasis Reporters
April 16, 2019
The Ademola Adeleke Campaign Organization has responded to a tweet purportedly issued by the spokesperson for the Buhari Campaign Organization, Bar. Festus Keyamo, (SAN), that the candidate in the Osun State gubernatorial election, Senator Ademola Adeleke of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP forged a statement of result that he presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The Campaign Organization responded in a Press statement signed by Hon Niyi Owolade,
for the Ademola Adeleke campaign Organisation sent to The Oasis Reporters insisting that Festus Keyamo was either misinformed, or got his facts wrong.
PRESS STATEMENT :
Our 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 the West African Examinations Council, WAEC did not attest his certificate.
We suspect that Mr Keyamo must have been misinformed or failed to get his facts correctly. For his information and that of the general public, both WAEC and the school principal of Ede Muslim High school, Ede attested to Senator Adeleke’s result through sworn affidavits before FCT High Court, Bwari.
We advise the President’s campaign spokesman to get his facts right before making public statements. Being 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.
Let 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. The principal through a sworn affidavit attested to 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. The two affidavits were widely published in the newspapers and are available in court papers.
WAEC not only attested Adeleke’s result,the school authority through the principal also did.
At this stage in the Osun election cases,all the facts are in the public domain and nothing can be spinned again. First,the public is fully aware that both WAEC and the Principal attested to Adeleke’s qualification.
Secondly, 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.
Thirdly and much more critically, WAEC and the principal affirmed in their respective affidavits that there was no forgery as results submitted by Adeleke tallied with their records.
We wish to conclude by informing the public once again that apart from the above attestation of Adeleke’s qualification,there are two subsisting high court judgements, affirming Senator Adeleke’s eligibility to contest for office of Governor.
Signed:
Hon Niyi Owolade,
For: Ademola Adeleke campaign Organisation
April 16th, 2019
