Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, yesterday, urged the Inspector
General of Police to reactivate the charges of forgery and conspiracy to
forge a police report for which the former governor of the state,
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, was standing trial before assuming office in
November 2010. The PDP recalled that Aregbesola and one other person
were facing a six count charge before an Abuja High Court for allegedly
forging and presenting a fake police report to an election petition
tribunal in 2007. In a statement by state chairman of the party, Soji
Adagunodo argued that now that Aregbesola no longer enjoys
constitutional immunity, the Inspector General of Police was duty bound
to arrest him and present him before the court to prove his innocence in
the charge. While recalling that it was on the basis of the forged
police report that the Appellate tribunal in Ibadan ordered a retrial of
Aregbesola’s petition in 2009, Adagunodo said it was curious that the
former governor and his party abandoned the report when their petition
went back for trail in the same year. The Party said since time does not
run against the state in criminal matters, the Attorney General of the
Federation and the Inspector General of Police have no excuse whatsoever
to abandon the case of forgery against the former governor.PDP tells police IG to reactivate forgery case against Aregbesola in Osun State
Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, yesterday, urged the Inspector
General of Police to reactivate the charges of forgery and conspiracy to
forge a police report for which the former governor of the state,
Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, was standing trial before assuming office in
November 2010. The PDP recalled that Aregbesola and one other person
were facing a six count charge before an Abuja High Court for allegedly
forging and presenting a fake police report to an election petition
tribunal in 2007. In a statement by state chairman of the party, Soji
Adagunodo argued that now that Aregbesola no longer enjoys
constitutional immunity, the Inspector General of Police was duty bound
to arrest him and present him before the court to prove his innocence in
the charge. While recalling that it was on the basis of the forged
police report that the Appellate tribunal in Ibadan ordered a retrial of
Aregbesola’s petition in 2009, Adagunodo said it was curious that the
former governor and his party abandoned the report when their petition
went back for trail in the same year. The Party said since time does not
run against the state in criminal matters, the Attorney General of the
Federation and the Inspector General of Police have no excuse whatsoever
to abandon the case of forgery against the former governor.
