The Police has arraigned the Osun State Peoples Democratic Party [PDP]’s governorship candidate in the September 22 election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, and four others, over charges of examination malpractices.
They were, on Wednesday, arraigned before Justice I.E Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The co-defendant with Senator Adeleke are: Sikiru Adeleke; the principal of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, Alhaji Aregbesola Muftau; the registrar of the school, Gbadamosi Ojo; and, a teacher in the school, Dare Samuel Olutope.
The defendants all pleaded not guilty to the four counts charges proffered against them.
The defendants allegedly committed examination malpractices by fraudulently, through impersonation, registering Adeleke and his brother, Sikiru Adeleke, as students of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, in Ojo-Aro in Osun State.
They were reportedly registered for the National Examination Council’s June/July 2017 Senior School Certificate Examination in February 2017.
Three of them, including Adeleke, were granted bail afterwards after they filed their separate bail applications.
