The Osun State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has replied the All Progressives Congress that Olalekan Ajagungbade popularly known as Emir who was earlier this year declared wanted by the Osun State Police Command is not a criminal.
The Party in a statement by the Directorate of Media said Emir is a member of the PDP who decamped from the APC.
“We wish to reiterate that the said Oyeyemi Olalekan Ajagungbade is our member having decamped from the APC and received into our party during the countdown to the July 16th, 2022 Osun governorship election.
“It is on record that the APC felt the pain of Ajagungbade’s defection, as such they sponsored their paid thugs to threaten and go after the life of Ajagungbade, and when they failed in their bid to get him desperately out of circulation, they sponsored a malicious petition against him.
“As a responsible and law abiding citizen, Ajagungbade approached the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo for the enforcement of his fundamental right to liberty, right to life and freedom of movement, joining in the suit the Police and the APC notorious thug called Asiri Eniba as the defendants in the suit.
For the sake of clarity, the Federal High Court has granted an order of maintaining STATUS QUO, that is, restraining the police acting through themselves or any third party from arresting, detaining, incarcerating or doing anything capable of bringing threat to the liberty, life and right to freedom of the said Ajagungbade our esteemed member who has been acting responsibly and conducting himself peacefully since he joined our Party.
We must put on record that our party does not habour ravenous and notorious thugs like the APC which habours self-confessed thugs who have been in and out of police net several times, and still on the wanted list of the police. Ours is a party of discipline, high moral standard and respect for rule of law.
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“Any attempt to cast any of our member in bad light will be resisted by machinery of law. Ajagungbade is not a wanted criminal and cannot in anyway be in the face of a positive court order in his favour against the police, and any such insinuation or proposition of criminality against our member (if any at all) would amount to a nullity which cannot stand at all.”
