Governor Ademola Adeleke submitted on Sunday that he was not in any way involved in the murder case involving the proprietor of Oduduwa University,  Dr Rahman Adedoyin.

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

 

Justice  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.

Governor Adeleke  in a statement  made available to Team@orientactualmags.com by his Special Adviser, Mr. Olawale Rasheed   on Sunday accused some unnamed people of smearing him while threatening to ensure that anyone found to have been involved is prosecuted..

Adeleke asserted that he did not make any attempt to intervene in the murder case ditto members of his family.

‘Our attention has been drawn to a defamatory fake news alleging that Governor Ademola Adeleke and his family are after the  Chief Judge of the state because Chief Rahman Adedoyin has been made to be on death row.

The truth which the public must be aware of is that Mr Governor is being blackmailed with the case involving Adedoyin because he had refused to shield and protect the Chief Judge, his co-indigene  from corruption probe.

The blackmail is a falsehood without any foundation in truth. Chief Adedoyin is not and has never, in whatever form, been a friend of the Adelekes.

Secondly, neither the governor nor members of his family had any contact or interference in the case involving Adedoyin while it lasted. From the beginning to the end, no member of the Adeleke family was involved in any way in the legal process.

Thirdly, Adedoyin never in any way had anything to do with the PDP, the governor’s party . If anything, Adedoyin was a strong APC loyalist and an ally of the immediate past governor of Osun state.

What is more, throughout the trial, Adedoyin’s legal team was manned by prominent APC lawyers from the beginning to the end. No single PDP lawyer was involved .

We affirm that the crisis rocking the state judiciary has to do with a series of petitions from judicial officials on alleged misconduct of the Chief Judge. On each occasion, those petitions always ended up unprocessed over deliberate blackmail with the Adedoyin matter until  the recent action by the State Assembly.

The governor’s sin is his consistent refusal to accept overtures to protect his kinswoman, the Chief Judge, from probe on alleged corruption. Mr Governor has always maintained his ground that if as a governor he is not immune from accountability questions, why should he use his  good offices to protect another official because of blood or town kinship?

With all sense of responsibility, we declare that neither Governor Adeleke nor any member of his family has anything to do with the travails of the Chief Judge. 

The governor’s refusal to shield his town people from corruption probe including the Chief Judge is largely responsible for the failed attempts to blackmail him with the Adedoyin’s murder case. We reject the shameful attempt to link alleged corruption in the judiciary with the case involving Adedoyin . Public officials are not immune from accountability issues.

 We assert strongly that the governor is not in any way linked with either the petition against the Chief Judge or the infamous murder case involving Adedoyin. The Number One Citizen will not use his good  offices to shield anybody from accountability questions even if such a person is from his family.

The governor has subsequently directed the state law officers to prosecute anybody peddling such defamatory and libelous publications as such fake news has no foundation in truth or reality’ the statement said-.Team@orientactualmags.com
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