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Engr.
Rauf Aregbesola the Action Congress
candidate in the disputed
2007governorship election and his deputy
governorship candidate Otunba Grace
TitilayoLaoye-Tomori who incidentally is
a native of Osogbo together with
chieftains of the Action Congress of
Nigeria were at the Ataoja palace in
Osogbo today the 12thday of august 2010.
The State Police Command (also)
subsequently summoned Engr. Rauf
Aregbesola to the Police State
Headquarters from where he proceeded to
the state C.I.D Headquarters.
At thestate C.I.D headquarters Engr.
Rauf Aregbesola who was in company of
hislawyers Wale Afolabi (Esq.), Wale
Ajagbe (Esq.), Gbenga Akano (Esq.),
Ajibola Basiru(Esq.) and Mutiu Olaoye
(Esq.) was informed that there was a
need for him to make a statement in
respect of the June 14th 2007 explosion
of Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
somewhere around the ministry of water
resources.
Engr. Rauf Aregbesola however restated
that he stood by an earlier statement he
had made at the Force C.I.D headquarters
on 23rd of June, 2008 in Abuja which
statement was taken by one Police
Officer James Effiong; that he made that
statement solemnly having been given
formal invitation by the Police high
command in Abuja at that time and
nothing has happend since then. He
statedfurther that he had nothing to add
to the earlier statement and the belief
thatthe Nigeria Police Force is One so
there is no need for proliferation of
statements on a single issue.
It is the position of the legal advisers
to Engr. Rauf Aregbesola and the Action
Congressof Nigeria in Osun State that
the Oyinlola led administration is
apparently orchestrating a plan to
continuously witch-hunt and intimidate
Engr. Rauf Aregbesolaand the leadership
of the Action Congress of Nigeria and
his teeming supporters.
It is on record that Action Congress of
Nigeria leaders have been illegally
charged in different courts, remanded in
prisons and constantly harassed by
substitution of frivolous charges, yet
three years into the orchestrated and
trumped up allegation, no single witness
or any other form of evidence has been
put forward in support of the trumped up
charges in Court. In fact the demand for
copies of investigation report and
copies of all other evidence in line
with section 36(6)of the 1999
constitution was refused by the
prosecution.
The fact that Oyinlola is only inclined
to use the incident as tool of political
repression came to fore when just less
than two weeks ago another purported
legal advice emerged after three years
whereby attempts is now made to
illegally incriminate Engr. Rauf
Aregbesola and under which Aregbesola's
Lawyer barrister Gbenga Akano and a
serving Magistrate,Chief Magistrate Ayo
Oyebiyi were now said should be
released(sic) notwithstanding that they
have been detained and victimized and
traumatized by trumped-up allegation for
about three years.
We are aware that Oyinlola and his
hireling are still seriously irked by
the fact that Engr. Rauf Aregbesola and
the action congress are still vigorously
pursuing the appeal to upturn the
controversial governorship election of
April 14 2007.
We appeal to the police high command in
Abuja and also in Osun State not to be
turned into tool of political repression
in the hand of Oyinlola and the
people'sDemocratic Party particularly in
this period when everybody is clamoring
forpeaceful, free, fair and transparent
election as well as level playing
fieldfor all political actors.
Signed
Olatunbosun Oyintiloye (P.A., Media
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