Court dismisses case of certificate forgery against Kwara state Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq

A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Wednesday
dismissed the certificate forgery case filed against Governor
AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq after the claimant insisted he was
withdrawing the case.

Justice Adenike Akinpelu struck out the case after Adekunle
Oluwafemi Abraham, a member of the PDP who had filed the case, told
the court he had indeed presented a notice of withdrawal of the
matter.

Justice Akinpelu said the withdrawal meant that the efforts of
one Olusola Olaseinde who wanted to join the suit were
inconsequential since the original case has been withdrawn.

AbdulRazaq had repeatedly said the case was politically
motivated and meant to stop him from contesting the March 9
governorship poll, adding that the claimant was acting out a script
from his political adversary.

The Governor had won several court cases filed by a faction of
the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by one Ishola
Balogun-Fulani, an ally of the former Senate President Bukola
Saraki.

Balogun-Fulani had filed a suit challenging the candidature of
AbdulRazaq. But the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court dismissed
the case, affirming that the Governor was rightly nominated by the
APC National Working Committee led by Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

Following the dismissal of Balogun-Fulani’s case, a member of
the Saraki-led PDP, filed a case alleging that AbdulRazaq did not
have the requisite qualifications to run for the office of
Governor.

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