Aluko wants arrest warrant "dead"

—The unbalanced Secretary of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State,
Dr Tope Aluko, has gone to Court to seek the
vacation of the Warrant of Arrest issued
against him by a Chief Magistrate Court in Ado
Ekiti last week.
Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye, had on
February 3, 2016 granted a motion exparte,
compelling the Commissioner of Police to
bring Aluko to Court for the purpose of
committing him (Aluko) for trial for the offence
of perjury.
Aluko was alleged to have recanted the
statement earlier made on oath during the trial
of the election of Governor Ayodele Fayose at
the Election Petition Tribunal, where he served
as a principal witness to the PDP in a case
instituted by the All Progressives Congress,
APC.
The PDP Secretary had a couple of weeks ago
granted an interview where he made stunning
revelations as regard the governorship election
of June 21, 2014.
Tope Aluko
PDP ex-scribe, Aluko wants arrest warrant
quashed
ON February 11, 2016 12:44 AM / IN
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By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Ado-Ekiti —The embattled Secretary of the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ekiti State,
Dr Tope Aluko, has gone to Court to seek the
vacation of the Warrant of Arrest issued
against him by a Chief Magistrate Court in Ado
Ekiti last week.
Chief Magistrate Adesoji Adegboye, had on
February 3, 2016 granted a motion exparte,
compelling the Commissioner of Police to
bring Aluko to Court for the purpose of
committing him (Aluko) for trial for the offence
of perjury.
Aluko was alleged to have recanted the
statement earlier made on oath during the trial
of the election of Governor Ayodele Fayose at
the Election Petition Tribunal, where he served
as a principal witness to the PDP in a case
instituted by the All Progressives Congress,
APC.
The PDP Secretary had a couple of weeks ago
granted an interview where he made stunning
revelations as regard the governorship election
of June 21, 2014.
Also addressing newsmen yesterday, principal
counsels to Aluko, Niran Owoseeni and Wale
Abimbola described the Warrant of Arrest
issued by a Chief Magistrate Court against
their client as a serious judicial error that
needed to be reversed to preserve the integrity
of the judiciary.
He said it was rather curious that the court
could go ahead and issued a warrant of arrest
when there was no valid and existing charge
against Aluko, noting that the court must have
been misled under this circumstance.
“The perjury allegation against Aluko was still
at the real of speculation, so, the order doesn’t
comply with the provision of the law and this
makes the court incompetent in the first
instance, or may be the DPP had read the law
upside down”, he said.
The motion, which was supported by twelve-
paragraph affidavit deposed to by Barrister
Ayodeji Daramola, the defendant (Aluko) based
his plea on the following grounds: that the
court lacks the jurisdiction to entertain the
application and that the application of the
complainant is defective and incompetent; that
the application was a flagrant abuse of court
process and that there is no prima facie case
of perjury against him before the order was
handed down.