Ex-Ijebu East LGA Chair, Wale Adedayo arraigns in court over allegation of LGA Funds diversion against Gov Abiodun
The imeapcehed Chairman of Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Wale Adedayo, has been arraigned by the Ogun State Police Command on a two-count charge bothering on alleged publishing of false information about the diversion of local government funds by the state governor, Dapo Abiodun.
Adedayo who was arraigned at the Magistrate Court 2 in the Isabo area of Abeokuta, the state capital, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge proffered against him.
His arraignment follows a petition filed by the state government over the alleged zero allocation and diversion of local government funds by the state government.
Counsel to the ex-Chairman, Kayode Akinsola, prayed the court to grant his client bail, promising that the defendant would not jump bail, and would honour all conditions attached to the bail application to which the prosecuting counsel, Olaide Rolly, did not object.
Delivering her judgement for the bail application, the presiding judge, A K Araba, admitted the defendant to bail of N2 million and two sureties with landed properties, among others within the jurisdiction of the court.
The case has however been adjourned till October 20 for the next hearing while the defendant has been remanded at the Ibara Correctional Centre in Abeokuta.
Adedayo was impeached about three weeks ago after he had earlier been suspended by the lawmakers in the Ijebu East LGA, following the allegation against the governor.
The former Chairman was also invited and detained by the Ogun State Command of the Department of the State Services, DSS, on the same allegation, for some days before he was released.
Adedayo had in a latter written to a former governor of Ogun State and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Olusegun Osoba, alleged that the local governments in the state were running on zero allocation.
