JUST IN: Exam Malpractices: Adeleke Arraigned, Secures Bail On Self Recognizance

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in
the September 22, 2018 election in Osun state, Senator Ademola
Adeleke, was on Wednesday arraigned before Justice I. E. Ekwo of
the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

Adeleke and four others were docked based on a four-count charge
of examination malpractices filed against them by the Nigerian
Police.

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, through
the Prosecuting Counsel, Mr, Simon Lough, had on September 19, 2018
filed the charge against Adeleke and his four co-accused.

Charged by the police alongside Adeleke were Sikiru Adeleke, the
Principal of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School; Alhaji Aregbesola
Muftau, the Registrar of the School; Gbadamosi Ojo and a teacher in
the school, Dare Samuel Olutope.

The police accused the five defendants of committing examination
malpractices by fraudulently, through impersonation, registering
Adeleke and another Sikiru Adeleke, as students of Ojo-Aro
Community Grammar School, in Ojo-Aro in Osun State, for the
National Examination Council’s June/July 2017 Senior School
Certificate Examination in February 2017.

At Wednesday’s sitting, the defendants all pleaded not guilty to
the charges levelled against them.

Details later…