The West African Examinations Council has revealed the results the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke, had in the body’s examination in 1981.
The revelation by WAEC was contained in documents presented before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Bwari, Abuja in an ongoing case involving Adeleke and the alleged forgery of his results.
The filing was done in compliance with an order issued by Justice Othman Musa on September 11.
Adeleke, listed as number 149 out of the 221 candidates that sat for the May/June 1981 examinations of the Council at Ede Muslim High School in Ede, Osun State, sat for only English Language in which he had F9.
He did not sit for other registered subjects.
These were Mathematics, Literature in English, Islamic Knowledge, Geography, Economics and Biology.
In an affidavit deposed to by the Deputy Registrar/Head of School Examination Department, WAEC, Henry Sunday Adewunmi Osindeinde, and filed in response to the court’s September 11 ruling, the examination body confirmed that Adeleke sat for the May/June 1981 at Ede Muslim High School, Yidi Road, Ede.
Osideinde stated that the examination centre number was 19645 while Adeleke’s number as a candidate in the centre was 149.
WAEC attached a copy of the results of all 221 candidates that sat for the May/June 1981 in the centre at Ede Muslim High School.
Osindeinde said in the affidavit: “By virtue of my position as Deputy Registrar/Head of School Examination Department, I have read the enrolled order of this court (specifically orders iv, v and vi) dated 11th September 2018 directing and compelling the WAEC to depose to an affidavit confirming or denying the said orders contained in the said enrolled order and referred to in this paragraph And I wish to state as follows:
“The said candidate named in this suit known as Adeleke Ademola, with Centre Number 19645 and Candidate Number 149, indeed sat for the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in May/June 1981 conducted by the council at Ede Muslim High School situate at P. O. Box 6 Yidi Road, Ede, State of Osun.
“The copy of the result listing referred to by the court order as the ledger containing the results of all the candidates (001 – 221) who sat for the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in the said school is hereby certified, attached and marked: Exhibit WA1.”
Justice Musa had directed WAEC to produce Adeleke’s results in a ruling on an ex parte application by two plaintiffs, Wahab Raheem and Adam Habeeb.
Musa had in the ruling specifically ordered the examination body to produce in court the ledger containing results of Adeleke and his mates with whom he sat for the examinations.
He also ordered WAEC to swear to an affidavit either denying or confirming that Adeleke, an incumbent senator representing Osun West Senatorial District, sat for the Council’s May/June 1981 examinations conducted by the Council at Ede Muslim High School in Ede, Osun State.
The court ordered that WAEC should file the ledger and the verifying affidavits within five days of being served with the enrolled order.
The court also ordered the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission to show cause within five days from the day of service of the originating summon” why they should not be stopped from recognising Adeleke’s candidacy.
Adeleke has denied forging the results.
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