The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed that Ademola Adeleke, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the governorship Osun State election holding on Saturday in Osun State sat for its examination in 1981.
WAEC made the confirmation before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Bwari, Abuja in compliance with an order issued by Justice Othman Musa on September 11.
In the results attached to the documents filed by WAEC, Adeleke was 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.
The results showed that Adeleke, now a senator representing Osun West in the National Assembly, sat for only English Language in which he scored F9.
He did not sit for other registered subjects which included Mathematics, Literature in English, Islamic Knowledge and Geography.
The 58-year-old also did not sit for Economics and Biology.
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.
The judge had in the ruling specifically ordered the examination body to produce in court the ledger containing results of Ademola 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 in the Senate, 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 both the PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to show cause within five days from the day of service of the originating summons why they should not be stopped from recognising Adeleke’s candidacy.
Adeleke who is the candidate of the PDP in the governorship poll has been accused of forging his WAEC certificate.
But the senator has since denied the allegation which he said was a lie being peddled by his political detractors.
