PDP raises alarm over the safety of Senetor Adeleke

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Thursday alleged that there were plans by some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to silence its governorship candidate in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke.

The main opposition party said that given the series of unrelenting attacks, threats and the desperation now being exhibited by the APC, the PDP has become apprehensive that there are plots to silence Adeleke, as a way to terminate his efforts to retrieve his governorship mandate in the court.

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, raised the alarm at a press conference in Abuja, where he called on Nigerians to hold the APC and their agents responsible should Adeleke becomes a victim of any harm or sudden disappearance.

He stated: “It may interest you to know that certain desperate elements of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who are unsettled that they cannot stop Senator Adeleke from retrieving his governorship mandate freely given to him by the people of Osun State, are now viciously plotting to use all means to put him out of circulation.

“Part of the plot is to frame and arrest the principal of his school, Ede Muslim High School, Ede, Mr. Kadili Adejare Abass, on trump-up charges that Senator Adeleke’s School testimonial was forged with the aim of using such fabrication as a basis to smear and clamp down on Senator Adeleke.”

The party also alleged that a former commissioner in Osun State was used by the APC leaders to reach and compromise certain top police officers to use the fabrications to arrest and embarrass Senator Adeleke and the Principal of his School, Ede Muslim High School even when they have not committed any crime.

“Yesterday, April 24, 2019 the Nigerian Police in collaboration with the APC arrested Abass, the Principal of the Ede Muslim High School, Ede as well as the wife of the school’s Registrar, Mrs. Rofiyat Oladepo and her nine months old baby".