In response to claims of vote-buying during the March 18 elections, Ladi Adebutu, the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate for governor of Ogun State, visited the state police headquarters in Eleweran, Abeokuta, on Wednesday.
After spending more than six months in the UK, Adebutu returned to Nigeria and showed up at the police headquarters at around eleven in the morning to honor a police invitation. The All Progressives Congress had accused Adebutu of purchasing votes during the election by using preloaded ATM cards.
Yemi Sanusi, the APC chairman in Ogun, had filed a police complaint, alleging that Adebutu and other PDP members had purchased votes.
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Yemi Sanusi, the APC chairman in Ogun, had filed a police complaint, alleging that Adebutu and other PDP members had purchased votes.
Court is now hearing the matter.
The APC spokesperson for the state, Tunde Oladunjoye, said that Adebutu was evading the law throughout his protracted absence from the nation, while simultaneously pressing him to come back to the country and answer for the accusations made against him.
His shadow terrifies him. Furthermore, we are all too aware that he is trying to avoid being charged with other party members. In a recent interview with The PUNCH, Oladunjoye stated, “If he claims otherwise, the best way to prove us wrong is to buy a ticket and board the next available flight home.”
The APC welcomed the governorship candidate home over the weekend in a separate statement on Tuesday. The party also asked him to give himself in to the police and refute the allegations of vote-buying and money-laundering that the federal government has preferred be made against him.
“If it is true that Adebutu has returned to the country after being away from the long arm of the law since April this year on the pretext of medical vacation, we welcome him back to his fatherland,” the APC stated in a statement read by Olusola Blessed, assistant publicity secretary.
Additionally, we implore him to surrender to law enforcement and refute the accusations of vote-buying and money-laundering made against him in the March 18, 2023, gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections, for which a few of his party’s members and agents have already been charged.
According to The PUNCH, Adebutu met with Abiodun Alamutu, the Commissioner of Police, and was escorted into the State Criminal Investigation Department accompanied by his legal team and other supporters.