Osun state government said on Monday that saving Dr Rahman Adedoyin from death row was never under consideration.

 

The state government has described as ‘untrue’  rumours  that the governor would be granting clemency in  the death-penalty case  involving  the hotelier, who is also the  proprietor of Oduduwa University.

 

It will be recalled that the state high court had a few days ago ruled that  67-year-old Rahmon Adedoyin should get executed by hanging.

 

Justice Oyebola Ojo had found Adedoyin and others guilty in the murder of Timothy Adegoke and they are now on condemned row.

 Adedoyin, who is  the Maye of Ile-Ife, had gotten in the soup following the death of  Adegoke Timothy at his hotel two years ago.

 Timothy , an MBA student  at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, had on November  5, 2021 lodged at the hospitality outfit  belonging to Adedoyin;  the Hilton Hotels and Resorts , Ile-Ife .

The hospitality outfit has 120 guestrooms and the deceased person’s hotel room number was 305.

Timothy was said to have been murdered while his body was later buried in a shallow grave near the hotel.

A statement made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by Governor Ademola Adeleke’s spokesman, Mr. Olawale Rasheed  quoted the state Chief Executive  as noting that his administration has never and will never intervene in the judicial process while labeling those promoting what  he called fake news as ‘public enemies’.

‘Those who concocted the fake news are evil -minded political operatives who are merely grasping at straws in their desperation to blackmail the state governor. Governor Adeleke has not and will never contemplate exercising the prerogative of mercy or whatever the report calls it, on a matter under adjudication which has generated deep interest among local and global communities.

It is important to clarify that neither the state governor nor his political party has any hidden plot in respect of the said murder case other than a public interest agenda to see culprits in the dastardly act face the full wrath of the law. That explains why no PDP member has been involved as counsel for any of the convicted individuals and why the state judiciary enjoys and exercises its full independence in the hearing and issuing of a ruling in the case.

It is uncharitable for political enemies and their paid agents to attempt any linkage between the convicted businessman and the state governor.

We affirm with all sense of responsibility that Governor Adeleke was at no point in time a friend or business partner of the owner of Oduduwa University and did not interfere, intervene or manifest any untoward agenda in the arraignment, hearing and sentencing of the accused.

We therefore urge  members of the public to ignore the repeated rumors of state pardon by Governor Adeleke for the convict and the watery push to link service records of a state judicial official to a popular verdict on the gruesome murder of a postgraduate student. Those peddling such lies are agents of darkness acting on behalf of disgruntled, dark political elements. They are better ignored.

We convey appreciation to men and women of goodwill who have put up spirited defense for the governor in the face of this orchestrated falsehood. The undiluted truth is that neither the State government nor the state governor is interested in the subversion of the wheel of justice’ the statement added- Team@orientactualmags.com
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