Wale Adedayo regains freedom, vows to go to court over his suspension as council chairman

The State Security Service (SSS) has released Wale Adedayo the suspended chairman of Ijebu East Local Government of Ogun State, who had earlier accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting local government funds.

Penpushing reports that Adedayo had been in custody since Friday after he honoured invitation by the Department of the Secret Service (DSS) at its office located along Presidential Boulevard, Abeokuta, the State Capital

The human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Femi Falana had in a statement on Sunday advised the Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun to go to court if he felt the suspended council boss had libelled him

‘Even though the Ogun State Government has denied the allegation of funds diversion, Governor Abiodun is advised to sue Mr Wale Adedayo for libel in the Ogun State High Court’, the legal luminary emphasized

‘In similar circumstances, two of his predecessors, the late Governor Olabisi Onabanjo, had sued the National Concord newspaper for libel in the Ogun State High Court in 1981, while Governor Segun Osoba sued the Punch Newspaper for defamation of character in the Ogun State High Court in 2001. Both Governors won the libel suits’, he dded.

‘Having regard to the facts and circumstances of this particular case, I am compelled to request the Ogun State Command of the SSS to release Mr Adedayo from custody forthwith”, the human rights lawyer wrote

Penpushing further reports that Adadayo while addressing journalists after he regained freedom on Monday declared that he would seek legal redress over his detention, adding that during interrogation the security operatives claimed that the Governor claimed that he (Adedayo) was making inciting comments against the state government

‘They claimed there is a letter from the governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, that I was making inciting comments against the state government. But I told them there was nothing like that, or who did they say I have incited?’, he stated

‘They said that I was planning protest but I said I don’t know anything about that and I told them that I had only done what my conscience said that I should and this I did with my other colleagues chairpersons despite the fact that they all ran back’, Adedayo stated.

‘My conscience is very clear in the letter I wrote to Chief Olusegun Osoba, the former governor of the state and a national leader of our party, APC. I will certainly go to court to challenge my illegal suspension because on the day of my suspension, over 100 police officers came to my local government, and I asked to do what. Maybe if I had shown my face on that day, I might not even be here in one piece”

Penpushing also reports that the suspended council boss in reaction to the Joint Account Allocation Committee (JAAC) statement that no money was missing or diverted as claimed by him (Adedayo), said they should go and tell the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

‘Let them tell that to the EFCC. I have sent my letters to them. Who is even JAAC? This concerns the local government chairmen, and if each of them claimed that they have been collecting the money meant to develop their council areas, they should be ready to account to the people’, he added

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