Posted on: 04:48 Wed, 03 Feb 2016



A Chief Magistrate Court in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti
State capital has ordered the State
Commissioner of Police to arrest of former
State Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP), Mr Temitope Aluko over alleged perjury.

Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye gave this
order today, upon a Motion Ex-parte number
MAD/10cm/2016, filed by the Ekiti State
Government against Mr Aluko and the State
Commissioner of Police, pursuant to Section 117
of the Criminal Code Law, Cap C16, law of Ekiti
State 2012, Section 79 of the Ekiti State
Administration of Criminal Justice Law 2014 and
Section 23 (D) of the Magistrates’ Courts Law
2014.

In the Motion, which was filed and moved by
the State Director of Public Prosecution (DPP),
Mr Gbemiga Adaramola, an order of the court
was sought to issue warrant of arrest against
Mr Aluko to be executed by the State
Commissioner of Police for the purpose of
committing him (Aluko) for trial for the offence
of perjury. Chief Magistrate Adegboye said the
order was granted as a means for the first
defendant (Aluko) to attend the court for
defence.

The matter was premised upon an application to
the State Attorney General by a lawyer, Mr
Sunday Olowolafe, calling for the prosecution of
Mr Aluko for alleged perjury. The legal
practitioner said; “I hereby apply to your office
that Dr Temitope Kolawole Aluko be arrested
and sued for perjury in view of the interview
recently granted on Channels Television by
8:00pm on Sunday 31 January, 2016.

“The said Dr Temitope Kolawole Aluko now
recanted the evidence he gave in the cause of
the hearing of the Ekiti State Governorship
Election Petition as a star witness even up to
the Supreme Court. The Certified True Copy of
the State on Oath, evidence of Dr Temitope
Kolawole Aluko in Court on the 12/11/14 and
Nigerian Tribune and The Punch newspapers of
Monday, 01/02/2016 that reported the interview
granted are hereto attached. “It is to be noted
that this if this act (Perjury) is not looked into,
it will definitely defile the cause of justice and
consequently rubbished the judicial
proceedings.”

In the affidavit filed in support of the motion ex-
parte by Special Assistant to the State Governor
on Public Communications and New Media, Lere
Olayinka, he said Mr Aluko, who was a witness
before the Governorship Election Petition
Tribunal sworn to a Statement on Oath on
August 4, 2014 wherein he stated that the
Election was not only free and fair, but devoid
of violence, thuggery, hooliganism, snatching of
ballot boxes, and related forms of electoral
disorderliness.

Olayinka further averred that Mr Aluko tendered
and adopted his Statement on Oath on
November 12, 2014 and further gave evidence
under cross examination.

He stated that all what Aluko said on Channels
Television on Sunday, January 31, 2016 were
contrary to and opposite in direction to his
evidence before the Ekiti State Governorship
Election Petition Tribunal. Issuing the warrant of
arrest against Mr Aluko, Chief Magistrate
Adegboye said since the court had the power to
grant the order and it will serve the interest of
justice, the State Commissioner of Police should
arrest Aluko for the purpose of investigating and
prosecuting him.