Aiyedatiwa gives lawyer 7-day ultimatum to retract certificate forgery allegations
Governor Aiyedatiwa of Ondo
Published By: Ayorinde Oluokun
By Taiye Agbaje
Ondo governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa has given a legal practitioner, Oladotun Hassan, a seven-day ultimatum to retract allegation of certificate forgery he levelled against him or be ready to prove his claim in court.
Aiyedatiwa, in a letter titled: โDefamatory Publications Against Mr Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwaโ written by his counsel, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, also demanded an apology in three national dailies.
The letter, dated April 8, was made available to newsmen in Abuja.
โThe above matter refers. We are solicitors to His Excellency, the Governor of Ondo State, Mr. Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa (โour Clientโ) on whose behalf we write this letter on the above subject matter.
โIt has come to the attention of our client that by an unsolicited letter dated June 2, 2023, you caused to be authored and submitted to the Nigeria Police Force, an unsubstantiated complaint of misrepresentation, certificate forgery, examination malpractice and perjury, against our client.
โWhereas, you are not a registered voter in or an indigene of Ondo State to possess the requisite locus to ground your said complaint.
โYour petition was cleverly routed through unauthorized sources within the police force and without recourse to our client, a report was purportedly submitted to you by the police dated February 19, 2024.
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โYou thereafter caused the said report to be widely circulated as the basis of a malicious design to disqualify our client from participating in the governorship primary election in Ondo State.
โYou thereafter caused another letter to be written to the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) with the same purpose of disqualifying our client from participating in the governorship primary election of the said party fixed for April 2024.
โYou have since led a vicious campaign of calumny against our client through these and other false publications, all of which have brought our client into public ridicule and opprobrium, albeit without any justification whatsoever,โ he said.
The senior lawyer also accused Hassan of writing another letter on April 5, alleging that Aiyedatiwa, instead of clearing his name on the alleged forgery, the governor conspired with DIG Sylvester Alabi to compromise police integrity.
Adegboruwa alleged that Hassanโs intention was to stop Aiyedatiwa from contesting in the APC primary slated for April and the November governorship election in the state.
He, therefore, gave him seven demands, including โadequate compensation for the false and libelous publications,โ against the governor within seven days of receiving the letter of face a criminal charge.
(NAN)
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