Former Ogun LG chair Adedayo is being charged with “circulation of falsehood” by the police.

Ogun State Police Command brought former Ijebu East LGA Chair Wale Adedayo before an Abeokuta Magistrate’s Court yesterday, at the request of the state government.

The arrest of Adedayo at his home in Ijebu-Ife, Ijebu East, and his subsequent transfer to the command’s headquarters in Eleweran for the night will be remembered.
Adedayo is in court in Isabo, Abeokuta, because the state government filed a petition against him for allegedly misappropriating money from the state’s councils. He was taken in for arraignment on two counts.The petition was signed by Tokunbo Talabi, the Secretary of the State Government, and it accused Adedayo of “deliberately circulating falsehood, false report to government, threat to life, and interference with the exercise of executive function.”

For two counts, the indictment read as follows: “That you, Adedayo’m’ on August 27, 2023, at Abeokuta in the Abeokuta Magisterial District did unlawfully publish circular to the public, a letter addressed to Aremo Olusegun Osoba, in which you accused the current Governor Dapo Abiodun of hijacking LG funds, which you knew was false allegation and likely to cause fear and alarm to the public or to disturb

That you, Adedayo, on the same date and place in the aforementioned Magisterial District did unlawfully publish circular to the public, a letter addressed to elder stateman, Aremo Olusegun Osoba, in which you accused the current Governor Abiodun of hijacking LG funds (10 percent of the state internally generated revenue, which the constitution stipulates should go to the local government(s) since May 2019), which you knew was a false allegation and likely to injure the

Defence attorney Kayode Akinsola has requested bail on behalf of his client, arguing that his client’s alleged offences are not too serious to warrant detention.

Inspector Olaide Rawlings, who was in charge of prosecuting the case, did not object to the bail.

Magistrate A. Araba granted him bail with two’responsible and reliable sureties’ in the amount of N2 million.

However, until his bail conditions are met, the Magistrate has ordered him to remain in Ibara prison in Abeokuta.

Araba has set the trial date for October 20, 2023.