Court asked to remove PDP ’s Adeleke from Senate

The Federal High Court Abuja was on Friday
asked to decide whether Ademola Adeleke
still qualified to be a serving Senator having
been found guilty of forging the Secondary
School Certificate he used in contesting
election.
This is contained in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/
CS/462/2019 and filed by Akinwale Olaniyi
and Akinjide Monsuru and made available to
newsmen by their Counsel, Mr Ola Adeosun
in Abuja.
The other respondents are the Peoples
Democratic Party, the Senate, Senate
President and the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).
Adeleke won the supplementary election on
the platform of the PDP to close up the
vacant Osun West Senatorial District Seat
created by the demise of his elder brother
Sen. Isiaka Adeleke in 2017.
The court is asked to decide whether with
the combined provisions of Sect. 65 (2) (a)
of the Constitution and judgment of the FCT
High Court delivered April 2, Adeleke still
qualified to occupy the seat.
Justice Othman Musa of the FCT High Court
had in that judgment declared the Secondary
School Certificate presented by Adeleke to
INEC as fake.
NAN however, reports that dissatisfied by the
judgment, Adeleke approached the Court of
Appeal, Abuja to challenge the decision of
the court.
The plaintiffs further prayed that if the above
question was in the negative, the court
should decide whether the combined effect
of the stated provisions of the constitution
and the judgment nullified Adeleke’s position
as senator.
They also prayed the court to decide
whether the combined effect of the above
provisions with the judgment, the first
defendant could still draw salaries from the
senate.
The plaintiffs, therefore, said if the three
questions raised were answered in the
negative, the court should declare Adeleke
unfit to contest the July 2017 Osun West
Senatorial District election.
They also urged the court to declare the
participation of the first defendant and his
eventual declaration as the winner of the
election as null, void and of no effect.
The plaintiffs further urged the court to
declare that the continuous representation of
the first defendant in the Senate as senator
representing Osun West Senatorial District as
illegal, null and void.
In the light of the above, the plaintiffs asked
for an order to direct INEC to withdraw the
certificate of return already issued to the
first defendant as the elected senator
representing Osun West Senatorial District at
the senate.
They also asked for an order of perpetual
injunction to restrain the Senate and the
senate president from further recognizing
and dealing with Adeleke as senator
representing Osun West Senatorial District of
Osun State.
The plaintiffs prayed for another order of
perpetual injunction restraining Adeleke from
further parading himself as a senator
representing Osun West Senatorial District.
They further prayed for an order for the
court to direct Adeleke to refund all salaries,
allowances and other emoluments so far
collected from the coffers of the Federal
Government with immediate effect.
NAN reports that the case file is yet to be
assigned to a judge.



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