The Osun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Mr. Ademola Adeleke, has denied that there was an injunction restraining his party and the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognising him.
He said in the case filed by some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the court did not give such a restraining order.
The statement stating the position of Adeleke is signed by Taofeek Olayiwola for his legal team and it reads:
“Our attention has been drawn to widely circulated rumours of an alleged restraining injunction stopping the Peoples Democratic Party and the Independent Electoral Commission from recognising Senator Ademola Adeleke as the governorship flagbearer of the party at the September polls.
“We have copies of the court processes filed by the plaintiffs who are members of the All Progressive Congress, the reliefs they sought and certified true copy of the orders issued by the presiding judge.
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“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 19th.
“Nowhere in the certified true copy of the order was the candidate restrained from parading himself as gubernatorial flagbearer and nowhere 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 bonfide 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.”
