The Lagos State chapter of the Alliance for democracy has called on the Inspector General of Police to arrest and prosecute the South West vice chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, Chief Olabode George for the massive rigging of votes in Ogun St-ate during the 2003 election.
It also claimed that information available indicated that Chief Olabode George was about to flee the country to avoid prosecution and called on the immigration authorities to withdraw his passport.
Reviewing the judgment of the presidential election tribunal which nullified the results of the presidential elections in Ogun State on account of massive rigging, Lagos AD stated that as the party’s electoral manager in the South West, Chief George should be held culpable for the massive vote fraud.
“Chief Olabode George is the vice chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the South West. He has claimed responsibility at various fora for the “success” of the PDP in the presi-dential elections in the South West. He has granted many press interviews in which he claimed to be the one who delivered Ogun State to the PDP. Now that his chickens have come home to roost, he must be made to face the music for his crimes against democracy,” the AD stated.
The statement signed by Toyin Coxton-Martins, the party’s publicity secretary, the AD stated further stated that it received reports from Lagosians that Chief Ola-bode George is concluding plans to flee the country so as to escape from the law.
“As a law abiding organisation, we consider it our pat-riotic duty to alert the Inspector General of Police and the Comptroller General of Immigration to take necessary steps to verify this info-rmation and act accordingly by taking preventive measures such as the withdrawal of his passport until inves-tigations are over,” the statement said.
The Lagos chapter of the AD also called on the Inspector General of Police to explain to the public if it is true that the Ogun State Police Command did not have a substantive police commissioner during the presidential and gubernatorial elections.
It said this has become necessary in order to erase doubts of the general public over the alleged complicity of the police in the massive finger-printing and inflation of figures in Ogun State.
