The family of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the July 16 election in Osun, Senator Ademola Adeleke, have said they have no pact with the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu over the coming poll.
The statement was sequel to reports that both Tinubu and the most senior of the Adeleke family Dr. Deji Adeleke, entered into an agreement to allow the incumbent and candidate of the APC, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola to have an easy ride and emerge for a second term in office.
Oyetola had defeated Adeleke via a rerun election after the first ballot was declared inconclusive in 2018.
A statement issued by Mallam Olawale Rasheed on behalf of the family on Wednesday described news making round that Dr. Deji Adeleke sold out his brother Ademola to the APC candidate as “fake and deceitful.
It reads, “Our attention has been drawn to a libelous defamatory fake news from a counterfeited platform, positing that Dr. Deji Adeleke has traded away his brother’s ambition in a negotiation with Senator Bola Tinubu.
“The story which contained all manners of evil concoctions were not only fictitious lies but they are figment of a demented mind faced with road block in political progress. It is unbelievable that any reasonable writer will concoct such deceitful piece without any iota of truth. The said platform has demonstrated that fake news should not only be sanctioned and criminalised but all purveyors of fake news should be judicially punished.
“We want to state quite strongly that Dr. Deji Adeleke at no time had any meeting with Senator Tinubu. He was never in any financial compensatory deals with the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He remains a strong pillar of his brother and other pro-people politicians in the popular drive to enthrone good governance in Osun state. We affirm that the business mogul has not discussed or trade away his brother’s ambition as projected especially as he is not a card-carrying member of any political party.
“We subsequently urge the general public to disregard the malicious publication and push ahead with the overwhelming drive to change the narration of Osun state for better. Those behind the publication are desperate politicians who are threatened by the imminent victory of Senator Ademola Adeleke in the July 16th governorship elections.
“The public should be rest assured that Dr. Deji Adeleke is a global business leader who will not now or in future enter into anti-people pact for any pecuniary gains”.
We Have No Pact With Tinubu Over Osun Governorship Election – Adeleke Family
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