Senator Adeleke
Two members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun have dragged Senator Ademola Adeleke before an Osogbo High Court challenging his candidacy as the party’s candidate in the Sept. 22 governorship polls.
The suit filed on Monday by Oyetunji Suredi and Olagboye Adedamola is following the dismissal of a similar suit against Adeleke by Justice David Oladimeji.
In the fresh suit, the plaintiffs are seeking an interlocutory injunction restraining Adeleke from parading himself as the candidate of the Osun PDP over alleged forged school certificate.
They are also asking the court to make an order to restrain the state ’s party Chairman, Soji Adagunodo, and the Independent National Electoral Commission from further recognising the defendant as the candidate of the party.
They are further seeking an order mandating the party chairman and INEC to replace Adeleke’s name with that of Akin Ogunbiyi, the runner-up in the party’s primary.
The plaintiffs alleged that Adeleke had presented a forged document as part of the purported proof of his academic qualifications.
No date has been fixed for the hearing.