The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, has denied allegations of vote-buying, accusing the police of staging a media trial.
Adebutu, in a press release on Thursday, mentioned he has not been served any court docket discover to show that he has been charged to court docket by the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation.
He accused Inspector General of Police Usman Alkali Baba of becoming a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to subvert the choice of the Ogun State Election Petition Tribunal.
In a press release made accessible to Media Talk Africa by his media aide, Afolabi Orekoya, Adebutu revealed that the police are “covering up investigation into allegations of vote buying and electoral violence against the APC during the March 18 governorship election.”
According to him, PDP had since despatched a petition to the police boss six weeks in the past, asking him to research APC for “vote buying, electoral violence, and voter intimidation.”
He accused the APC of utilizing the police to subvert justice by intimidating and harassing him, regardless of spending N3 billion to induce voters and disrupt elections in lots of elements of the state.
“We have petitioned the police for the past six weeks, but we are surprised the police have not opened up an investigation into our petition against the APC on the votes bought by them,” Adebutu acknowledged.
He appealed to the IGP to “allow this petition to see the light of the day,” saying they need to not suppress it.”
On the case towards him on the High Court over alleged voting shopping for, Adebutu acknowledged that he was neither invited by the police nor served with any court docket papers, saying he solely learnt about it within the media.
The governorship candidate described the go well with as “an abuse of court process and a plot to distract the tribunal from doing its job.”
In a press release on Thursday, the Ogun APC had advised Adebutu to give up himself to the police over the allegations towards him.
But the PDP chief denied claims that he left the nation to evade police arrest, saying he travelled on April 25 for his typical routine medical check-up after the election.
He suggested APC to face the petition towards it on the tribunal as an alternative of chasing shadows and attempting to divert individuals’s consideration.
