Senator Adeleke: Court rules on alleged certificate forgery Wednesday
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the counsel argued that at the time the certificate was issued osun had not been created as a state1 an osun high court sitting in osogbo has adjourned till wednesday ruling in the certificate suit involving sen. ademola adeleke the peoples democratic party pdp candidate in the sept. 22 governorship election in the state1 the news agency of nigeria nan reports that two members of the pdp in the state had approached the court for an interlocutory order setting aside the election of adeleke as the pdp governorship flag bearer over alleged non-submission of his secondary school leaving certificate1 adeleke was declared the winner in the pdp primary held on july 21 having polled 1569 votes to beat by seven votes his closest rival dr akin ogunbiyi who had 15621 the plaintiffs rasheed olabayo and oluwaseun idowu in the suit filed on july 24 sought an interlocutory order setting aside the election of adeleke arguing that he did not satisfy the constitutional requirements to contest the governorship election1 counsel to the plaintiffs mr olufemi ayandokun had earlier told the court that the certificate tendered by sen. ademola adeleke to inec and the court was forged1 he urged the court to take judicial notice of the date the certificate was issued and the year statedon it1 justice david oladimeji adjourned proceedings onmonday after all parties had accessed the relevant documents1 he described the certificate as fake1 ayandokun prayed the court to adopt and rely on the written address in support of the response to the notice of preliminary objections and asked the court to strike out the counter-affidavits1 the defence counsel mr edmund boriomoni told the court to also strike out the originating summons and the motion on notice for want of competency and jurisdiction1 he said that another affidavit had earlier been filed for preliminary objection and a counter-affidavit for the originating summons1 boriomoni said there were 22 grounds 48 paragraphs of affidavits and three exhibits marked in support of the affidavits and nine issues for determination1 he urged the court to dismiss the suit filed against his client for lacking in merit1