The People’s
Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate for September 22, 2018 election
in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has called on his supporters to
prayerfully and peacefully await the ruling of the Supreme Court.
The Supreme
Court had on Monday fixed judgment for July 5, 2019 in the appeals filed by
Adeleke following an Appeal Court ruling in favour of Governor Adegboyega
Oyetola.
A seven-man
panel of the court, led by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice
Ibrahim Muhammad chose the date after taking final arguments in respect of the
main appeal, marked: SC/553/2019 filed by Adeleke.
Adeleke’s
message was contained in a statement by his media consultant, Olumide Lawal, on
Friday, where he also maintained that as a man at peace, he would want his
supporters to remain calm.
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The former
lawmaker expressed hope that by the special grace of God and the judicial
process, economic prosperity beckons on Osun State.
Adeleke
called on the people of the state to “be rest sure that I will not disappoint
you when I eventually, through the grace of god and instrumentally of the
judiciary” emerge victorious after the Supreme Court judgement scheduled for
July 5.
He urged his
supporters to discountenance the utterances of the opposition “in their bid to
whip up sentiments and lower their spirits.”
Adeleke said
that he had passed through the crucible and fire and came out untainted,
saying: “this has prepared me solidly for the task of serving humanity without
bias, ill-wind or grudge towards anybody as a God-fearing man, brought up in
total humility and milk of human kindness in his veins to serve the
less-privileged and physically disadvantaged people in the society.”