Ignore Fake News From Political Blackmailers, ‘I Have No Criminal Records’, Egbedun

A Member-elect for Odo-Otin State Constituency Hon Adewale Egbedun has debunked and deny a photoshopped allegations purportedly relating to him and his business career on social media.

He stressed that he has clean records without blemish and asked the general public to trash the fake report about him circulating on social media.

Egbedun in a statement obtained by City mirror news Online on Saturday, debunked sponsored defamatory and seditious publication currently circulating in social media.

According to him, While a lot of lies have been peddled by political opponents in the recent past, this current one has crossed the red line.

The statements Reads”
My attention has been drawn to a defamatory and seditious publication currently circulating in social media about my person, my business life, and my political career. While a lot of lies have been peddled by political opponents in the recent past, this current one has crossed the red line.

I am therefore constrained to strongly debunk and deny the photoshopped allegations and documentation purportedly relating to me and my past business activities. A forensic review of the documents being circulated shows the superimposition, the wrong dates, and the false content. I assert that the documents are mere fabrications that never exist and which are concerted as a weapon of blackmail by political hackers terrified by the grace and mercy of God in my political career.

I declare that never in my past had I ever gotten arrested or interrogated or convicted by the FBI or any other law enforcement agency anywhere in the world. My business life now and in the past is legally compliant, devoid of criminality, and in conformity with all legal regulations of countries where I have had legal dealings.

The fake news is therefore the failed bid of frustrated political fraudsters who smell failure and who assume character assassination can rescue their sinking political boats.

I have consequently instructed my lawyers to sue the faceless group and their operatives even as security agencies have been petitioned to arrest authors of the defamatory publications and anybody found to be sharing or disseminating such fake news.

It is also germane for me to clarify that the Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke is a leader of all who is busy with State governance and delivery of the Imole agenda. It is unfair and uncharitable to drag His Excellency to a legislative leadership matter which is an issue for the legislators-elect to decide.

Democracy is a game of numbers. What is expected of players is to seek the support of colleagues instead of embarking on impotent blackmail and emotional harassment. I apologize to His Excellency for the lack of maturity of some players who constituted themselves into a nuisance and a premature threat to the new era Osun people are currently enjoying.

I assure leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state that my records are clean and my antecedents are enviable. I am just a victim and a target of attacks by those incapable of accepting the will of God, the divine who enthrones and dethrones leaders.

~ Hon Adewale Egbedun,
June 2nd, 2023