The member-elect for Odo-Otin State Constituency, in Osun State House of Assembly, Hon Adewale Egbedun has debunked reports that he was arrested and convicted by law enforcement agency over illegal business dealings.
He stated that his business life now and in time past has always been legally compliant, devoid of criminality, and in conformity with all legal regulations of countries where he has had legal dealings.
Egbedun stated this in a statement issued following the publication of a fake document, alleging that he was arrested for criminal acts while in the United States of America.
Egbedun, a leading Speakership aspirant in Osun State House of Assembly, described purveyors of the false report as political detractors who are jittery over his political exploits.
He also asked security operatives to arrest authors of the defamatory publications and anyone disseminating such fake news, just as he directed his lawyers to sue the group behind the report.
See full statement below
My attention has been drawn to a defamatory and seditious publication currently circulating in social media about my person, my business life, and my political career. While a lot of lies have been peddled by political opponents in the recent past, this current one has crossed the red line.
I am therefore constrained to strongly debunk and deny the photoshopped allegations and documentation purportedly relating to me and my past business activities. A forensic review of the documents being circulated shows the superimposition, the wrong dates, and the false content. I assert that the documents are mere fabrications that never exist and which are concerted as a weapon of blackmail by political hackers terrified by the grace and mercy of God in my political career.
I declare that never in my past had I ever gotten arrested or interrogated or convicted by the FBI or any other law enforcement agency anywhere in the world. My business life now and in the past is legally compliant, devoid of criminality, and in conformity with all legal regulations of countries where I have had legal dealings.
The fake news is therefore the failed bid of frustrated political fraudsters who smell failure and who assume character assassination can rescue their sinking political boats.
I have consequently instructed my lawyers to sue the faceless group and their operatives even as security agencies have been petitioned to arrest authors of the defamatory publications and anybody found to be sharing or disseminating such fake news.
It is also germane for me to clarify that the Executive Governor of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke is a leader of all who is busy with State governance and delivery of the Imole agenda. It is unfair and uncharitable to drag His Excellency to a legislative leadership matter which is an issue for the legislators-elect to decide.
Democracy is a game of numbers. What is expected of players is to seek the support of colleagues instead of embarking on impotent blackmail and emotional harassment. I apologize to His Excellency for the lack of maturity of some players who constituted themselves into a nuisance and a premature threat to the new era Osun people are currently enjoying.
I assure leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Osun state that my records are clean and my antecedents are enviable. I am just a victim and a target of attacks by those incapable of accepting the will of God, the divine who enthrones and dethrones leaders.
~ Hon Adewale Egbedun,