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Senator Adeleke, Others Charged With Exam Malpractice.

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the September 22, 2018 election in Osun state, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has been arraigned before Justice I. E. Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.

Adeleke and four others were docked based on a four-count charge of examination malpractices filed against them by the Nigerian Police.

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Idris, through the prosecuting counsel, Mr, Simon Lough, had on September 19, 2018 filed the charge against Adeleke and his four co-accused.

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The other four defendants include; 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 police accused the five defendants of committing examination malpractices by fraudulently, through impersonation, registering Adeleke and another Sikiru Adeleke, as students of Ojo-Aro Community Grammar School, in Ojo-Aro in Osun State, for the National Examination Council’s June/July 2017 Senior School Certificate Examination in February 2017.

At today’s sitting, the defendants all pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against them.

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The presiding judge, granted Adeleke bail in self recognition but ruled that he deposits his international passport with the court registrar and can travel out of the country when court grants his permission to do so and he is to also sign a bond that he would attend the trial.

The second defendant, Sikiru Adeleke and the third defendant, Aregbeshola Mufutau, were granted bail in the sum of N2m (two million naira) each and one surety each in the like sum.

They are also to deposit their passport with the court.

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The sureties must also have property in Abuja.

The case was thereafter adjourned to Dec 17,18 and 19.