Breaking News

Osun begins Interview for shortlisted Teachers across the State | GOVERNOR ADELEKE CELEBRATES APC’s NATIONAL SECRETARY, AJIBOLA BASIRU, ON HIS BIRTHDAY. | Governor Adeleke Congratulates Adeniyi on his Appointment as Chair of World Customs Council. | Osun State Marks a Groundbreaking June in Climate Leadership and Renewable Energy. | GOVERNOR ADELEKE CELEBRATES REP. OMIRIN ON HIS BIRTHDAY. | GOVERNOR ADELEKE EULOGISES SPEAKER EGBEDUN AT 40 | GOVERNOR ADELEKE EXTOLS EX-DEPUTY GOVERNOR, ERELU OBADA AT 74. | GOV. ADELEKE DECLARES FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2025, AS PUBLIC HOLIDAY TO MARK HIJRAH 1447AH | Hijrah 1447: Governor Adeleke Felicitates with Muslim Ummah. | GOVERNOR ADELEKE GREETS CHIEF OF STAFF TO PRESIDENT, FEMI GBAJABIAMILA, AT 63. | GOVERNOR SANWO-OLU AT 60. | Osun LGs: Governor Adeleke Restates Commitment to Peaceful Resolution | Governor Adeleke Eulogises Sister, Yeyeluwa Modupeola Adeleke-Sanni on her birthday | Governor Adeleke Eulogises Sister, Yeyeluwa Modupeola Adeleke-Sanni on her birthday. | Tinubu Minister Commends Governor Adeleke for Rapid State Development | GOVERNOR ADELEKE FELICITATES OBA AKANBI AT 58. | Governor Adeleke Honoured with Award of Excellence on Climate Action at OAU International Conference. | Don’t pay Osun Local Government Fund into Private Accounts, LG Commissioner Warns CBN, AGF | OYEBAMIJI IS A FALSE ALARMIST, PEDDLING FALSEHOOD TO SHORE UP HIS DESTINED-TO-FAIL ASPIRATION– Spokesperson. | OSUN LOSES ES, COUNCIL FOR ARTS AND CULTURE AS GOVERNOR ADELEKE COMMISERATES WITH OBA ABOLARIN. | Kola Ogunwale as Chairman, College of Health Technology.
System Analyst November 19, 2023

Adedoyin case: Governor Adeleke Being Blackmailed for Refusing to Shield Chief Judge from Corruption Probe

NEWS RELEASE

OSOGBO- 19/11/2023- Osunstate.gov.ng

Our attention has been drawn to a defamatory fake news alleging that Governor Ademola Adeleke and his family are after the State’s Chief Judge because of the sentencing of Chief Raheem Adedoyin.The truth which the public must be aware of is that Mr Governor is being blackmailed with the Adedoyin case for refusing to shield and protect the Chief Judge, his town woman, from corruption probe.The blackmail is a falsehood without any foundation in truth. Chief Adedoyin is not and has never, in whatever form, been a friend of the Adelekes.Secondly, neither the Governor nor his family had any contact or interference in the Adedoyin case while it lasted. From the beginning to the end, no member of the Adeleke family was involved in any way in the legal process.Thirdly, Adedoyin was never in any way involved with the PDP, the party of the Governor. If anything, Adedoyin was a strong APC loyalist and an ally of the past Governor of Osun state.What is more, throughout the trial, Adedoyin’s legal team was manned by prominent APC lawyers from the beginning to the end. No single PDP lawyer was involved with the Adedoyin team.We affirm that the crisis rocking the state judiciary has to do with a series of petitions from judicial officials on alleged misconduct of the Chief Judge. On each occasion, those petitions always ended up unprocessed over deliberate blackmail with the Adedoyin matter until recent action by the State Assembly.The Governor’s sin is his consistent refusal to accept overtures to protect his kinswoman, the Chief Judge, from probe on alleged corruption. Mr Governor has always maintained his ground that if as a Governor he is not immuned from accountability questions, why should he use his office to protect another official because of blood or town kinship?With all sense of responsibility, we declared that neither Governor Adeleke nor any member of his family has anything to do with the travails of the Chief Judge. The Governor’s refusal to shield his town people from corruption probe including the Chief Judge is largely responsible for the failed attempt to blackmail the Governor with the Adeoyin case. We reject the shameful linkage on alleged corruption within the judiciary and the Adedoyin matter. Public officials are not immuned from accountability issues. We assert strongly that the Governor is not in any way linked with either the petition against the Chief Judge or the infamous Adedoyin case. The Number One Citizen will not not use his office to shield anybody from accountability questions even if that person is from his family.The Governor has subsequently directed the state law officers to prosecute anybody peddling such defamatory and libelous publications as such fake news has no foundation in truth or reality.SignedMallam Olawale Rasheed,Spokesperson to the Executive Governor

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *