Court Orders Arrest Of Former Ekiti PDP Secretary Over Alleged Perjury
A
Chief Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital has
ordered the State Commissioner of Police to arrest of former State
Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Temitope Aluko
over alleged perjury.
The
Chief Magistrate, Adesoji Adegboye, gave the order on Wednesday upon
a Motion, Ex-parte number MAD/10cm/2016, filed by the Ekiti State
Government against
Mr Aluko and the State Commissioner of Police, pursuant to Section
117 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C16, law of Ekiti State 2012,
Section 79 of the Ekiti State Administration of Criminal Justice Law
2014 and Section 23 (D) of the Magistrates’ Courts Law 2014.
In
the Motion, which was filed and moved by the State Director of Public
Prosecution (DPP), Mr Gbemiga Adaramola, an order of the court was
sought to issue warrant of arrest against Mr Aluko to be executed by
the State Commissioner of Police for the purpose of committing him (Aluko)
for trial for the offence of perjury.
Chief
Magistrate Adegboye said that the order was granted as a means for the
first defendant (Aluko) to attend the court for defence.
The
matter was premised upon an application to the State Attorney General
by a lawyer, Mr Sunday Olowolafe, calling for the prosecution of Mr
Aluko for alleged perjury.
The
legal practitioner said; "I hereby apply to your office that Dr
Temitope Kolawole Aluko be arrested and sued for perjury in view of
the interview recently granted on Channels Television by 8:00pm on
Sunday 31 January, 2016.
"The
said Dr Temitope Kolawole Aluko now recanted the evidence he gave in
the cause of the hearing of the Ekiti State Governorship Election
Petition as a star witness even up to the Supreme Court.
"The
Certified True Copy of the State on Oath, evidence of Dr Temitope
Kolawole Aluko in Court on the 12/11/14 and Nigerian Tribune and The
Punch newspapers of Monday, 01/02/2016 that reported the interview
granted are hereto attached.
"It
is to be noted that this if this act (perjury) is not looked
into,
it would definitely defile the cause of justice and consequently
rubbished the judicial proceedings".
In
the affidavit filed in support of the motion ex-parte by Special
Assistant to the State Governor on Public Communications and New
Media, Lere Olayinka, he said Mr Aluko, who was a witness before the
Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sworn to a Statement on Oath
on August 4, 2014 wherein he stated that the Election was not only free
and fair, but devoid of violence, thuggery, hooliganism, snatching
of ballot boxes, and related forms of electoral disorderliness.
Olayinka
further averred that Mr Aluko tendered and adopted his Statement on
Oath on November 12, 2014 and further gave evidence under cross
examination.
He
stated that all what Aluko said on Channels Television on Sunday,
January 31, 2016, were contrary to and opposite in direction to his
evidence before the Ekiti State Governorship Election Petition
Tribunal.
Issuing
the warrant of arrest against Mr Aluko, Chief Magistrate Adegboye
said that since the court had the power to grant the order and it would serve the interest of justice, the State Commissioner of Police
should arrest Aluko for the purpose of investigating and prosecuting
him.
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