Ogun PDP demands release of police report on vote buying allegations against Abiodun

From Laide Raheem, Abeokuta 

Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to direct the police authority in the state, to make public, findings of police investigations into the allegation of vote-buying levelled against the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) during the March 18 governorship election.

State chairman of the party, Sikirulahi Ogundele, at a press conference, yesterday, at the PDP State Secretariat, Presidential Boulevard, Abeokuta, said the call had become expedient against the  clandestine moves by the APC and the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, to subvert the police investigations.

He alleged that the party and Abiodun were mounting pressure and threatening the state police command to suppress the findings of investigation ordered by former  IGP, Usman Baba.

He argued that since the APC gleefully circulated the interim report of the police on vote buying allegation against the PDP and its governorship candidate, Ladi Adebutu, in the media, the police authority in the state must resist any pressure to suppress its findings against the APC and Abiodun, as a result of the petition submitted by the Ogun PDP.

Ogundele wondered what was keeping the report that had since been concluded from being submitted.

He said that the police had questioned enough witnesses, got facts and information  believed to have enriched the report, insisting the outcome of the investigation against APC must also be made public by the police as it did against the PDP.

The Ogun PDP chairman, however, threatened that the party would petition the IG, if the Ogun police command failed to submit an unadulterated report in the next 72 hours.

“We are also aware that the governor is trying to suppress the report because he knows the investigations have uncovered many atrocities he has perpetrated with his co-travellers, with evidence provided by various witnesses and facts made available and how government accounts were used to buy votes.

“In support of our petition and in addition to the evidence made available to the Police by our Party which have aided thorough investigation of our petition, the police questioned enough witnesses, got facts and information which we believed to have enriched the report that has been concluded.”

Yet, Governor Dapo Abiodun is preventing the State Police Command to submit, release the findings and report of the investigation.”