Osun State chapter of the Peoples' Democratic Party has called on the Inspector General of Police to reactivate the charges of forgery and conspiracy to forge a police report for which the former governor of Osun state Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola was standing trial before assuming office in November 2010.
The PDP recalled that Mr Aregbesola and one other person were facing a six count charge before an Abuja High court for forging and presenting a fake police report to an election petition tribunal in 2007.
According to the PDP chairman, Hon Soji Adagunodo who issued a Press release in Osogbo on Wednesday, now that Mr Aregbesola no longer enjoys constitutional immunity, the Inspector General of Police was duty bound to arrest him and present him before the court to prove his innocence in the charge.
While recalling that it was on the basis of the forged police report that the Appellate tribunal in Ibadan ordered a retrial of Ogbeni Aregbesolas petition in 2009, Adagunodo said it was curious that the former governor and his party abandoned the report when their petition went back for trail in the same year.
The PDP chairman added that while forgery itself is a weighty crime, forging a security document like a police report should be a matter of concern to the public and must not be swept under the carpet in any guise.
The Party said since time does not run against the state in criminal matters, the Attorney General of the Federation and the Inspector General of Police have no excuse whatsoever to abandon the case of forgery against the former governor.
The PDP also called on genuine Civil society organisations to take on the matter and ensure that the Inspector General of Police continues with the case for which Aregbesola was standing trial before taking his oath of office.
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