By Alex Enumah
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, yesterday discharged and acquitted four persons accused alongside the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the last governorship election in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, standing trial for alleged involvement in examination malpractices.
Justice Ekwo freed the defendants from the seven-amended-count-charge while delivering a ruling in their no-case submission against the suit.
The Police, in 2018, had arraigned Adeleke along with Sikiru Adeleke (who is said to be the senatorâs relative), Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (the school principal), Gbadamosi Ojo (a school registrar) and Dare Olutope (a teacher) on a four-count charge bordering on examination fraud.
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, terminated further hearing on the examination malpractice charge against Sikiru Adeleke, a relative to former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke.
The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Inyang Ekwo, discharged and acquitted Adeleke and three other Defendants- Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (the Principal of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, Ojo-Aro, Osun State), Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo (the school’s Registrar) and Dare Samuel Olutope (a teacher in the school)- of the seven-count charge the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, entered against them.
By Alex Enumah
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday discharged and acquitted four persons accused alongside a former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the last governorship election in Osun State, Senator Nurudeen Adeleke, in the alleged examination malpractices suit.
Justice Ekwo freed the defendants from the seven amended count charge while delivering ruling in their no-case submission against the suit.
The police had in 2018 arraigned Adeleke along with Sikiru Adeleke (who is said to be the senator’s relative), Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (the school principal), Gbadamosi Ojo (a school registrar) and Dare Olutope (a teacher) on a four-count charge bordering on examination fraud.
Examination malpractice: Court dismisses charges against Adeleke
The court says the prosecution failed to prove the ingredients of the charges slammed against Mr Adeleke. 3 min read
The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, dismissed the charges of examination malpractices allegedly perpetrated in favour of Ademola Adeleke, the candidate of the
Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in the last governorship election in Osun State.
Mr Adeleke, who lost the September 22, 2018 election to the incumbent Governor Adegboyega Oyetola, was originally arraigned along with four other defendants on October 31, 2018.
But the trial judge, Inyang Ekwo, later struck Mr Adeleke’s name from the seven charges following a request by the prosecuting lawyer, Simon Lough, on May 29, 2020.