By Adeola Olanrewaju
The All Progressives Congress (APC) Senatorial candidate for Ogun West Senatorial District, Senator Olamilekan Adeola has denied media speculation that he had been stopped from contesting the APC Senatorial primary for Ogun West by a court injunction.
Adeola was declared the winner of the APC Ogun West Senatorial ticket after he defeated the current senator representing the district, Senator Tolu Odebiyi at the party primary held in Ilaro on Saturday.
Reacting to a purported court injunction, Senator Adeola in a press statement on Tuesday through his Media Adviser, Chief Kayode Odunaro said no court has granted any injunction stopping the concluded primary or in any way questioning his landslide victory of last Saturday which had the participation of his opponent, Senator Tolu Odebiyi who scored zero vote.
Senator Adeola, popularly known as Yayi who is currently representing Lagos West Senatorial District argued that, the litigants only filed motion seeking an injunction restraining him from participating in a primary that was to take place some hours to the filing of the court papers.
He emphasized that, no judge was assigned to the case, thereby rendering the supposed court injunction 'fake news and blatant lies'.
The senator maintained that, he was not averse to anyone following the rule of law in their failed agitation to engage in politics of exclusion, urging the judicial process and the media not to be manipulated to serve base and vile ambition of a grossly unpopular aspirant for a democratic political office.
"Ordinarily, the victorious Senator Adeola in the concluded primary would have let the authors of the court papers live in their fool’s paradise, but is now forced to react to the spreading of what amounts to fake news and blatant lies using credible media and other blogs".
"The fact of the matter is that no court has granted any injunction stopping the concluded primary or in any way questioning the landslide victory of Senator Adeola last Saturday which had the participation of his opponent, Senator Tolu Odebiyi who scored zero vote to lose to Senator Adeola’s 294 votes as widely reported in the media".
"The litigants only filed motion seeking an injunction restraining Senator Adeola from participation in a primary that was to take place some hours to the filing of the court papers. Predictably no judge was assigned to the case and as we speak we are not aware of the assignment of the case to any judge".
"Senator Adeola is not averse to anyone following the rule of law in their failed agitation to engage in politics of exclusion and will join issues with any litigants following due process. But the judicial process and the media must not be manipulated to serve base and vile ambition of a grossly unpopular aspirant for a democratic political office. "
"We urge members of the public to disregard the fake news of an injunction against the hard-won landslide victory of Senator Adeola in the Ogun West Senatorial APC primary of Saturday, May 28, 2022 and further urge the party to sanction any erring members engaging in what amounts to gross anti-party activities".
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