Osun PDP Kicks As Police Arrest Senator Adeleke

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Osun State has called on Nigerians and the International community to hold the Nigeria Police Force and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible if anything tragic happens to its Governorship candidate and serving Senator, Ademola Adeleke.

The Party, made the call on Monday in a press statement issued by its State Chairman, Hon.Soji Adagunodo in response to the arrest of Adeleke by the Police authorities in Abuja.

Adagunodo stressed that; “The arrest of Adeleke who recently won at Election Petition Tribunal and declared as the winner of the September 22nd, 2018 Governorship election is a clear case of political desperation taken too far by the Police which is obviously executing a script of the APC.”

He further said that the arrest fuelling speculation of an attempt to put Adeleke in harm’s way so as to prevent him from conclusively retrieving the mandate freely given him by the people of the State.

According to the party, “Adeleke has an urgent Medical need which made a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to order that his International passport be released to him to travel abroad for immediate medical attention.

“The Court also ordered that the Senator should return to Nigeria by the first week of June to answer whatever charges the Police claim that they have against him.”

The party then wondered why the Police would arrest and frustrate an urgent medical trip of a citizen who has never shunned any Police summon or jumped bail in any of the trumped up charges against him in the courts of the land.

“It should interest members of the public to know that the offence for which the Police has again arrested and detained Senator Adeleke are based on the same facts which competent courts of the land are currently handling, including an ongoing appeal against a judgement of an FCT High Court in Bwari.

“It is also a matter to be taken serious note of that the citizen in question has been declared the Governor-elect of a State by a competent tribunal and is currently defending that judicial victory at the Court of Appeal.”

The PDP called on well meaning Nigerians, the Civil Society and Human Rights Community to intervene in what it described as serial, vicious and clearly unjustifiable oppression of Senator Ademola Adeleke by the Powers that be using the Nigeria Police Force as a tool.

“We also call on President Muhammadu Buhari to call the Inspector General of Police to order and urge him to refrain from ongoing attempts to frustrate a valid court order which has granted Senator Ademola Adeleke permission to travel abroad for his medicals.”