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Fund ‘diversion’: Falana asks DSS to free detained Ogun LG chairman

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) on Sunday asked the Department of State Services (DSS), Ogun Command, to immediately release the suspended Chairman of the Ijebu East Local Government Area, Wale Adedayo, who has been in custody since Friday.

Adedayo had accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting councils’ statutory federal allocations in the last two years.

He was suspended by the councillors from the LG last week following the allegation against the governor.

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He was at the DSS Abeokuta office on Friday, to honour an invitation of the command on the allegations, but he has since been held in custody.

One of his aides had said on Friday night that Adedayo might likely be detained throughout the weekend.

But Falana, in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, asked the DSS to release him.

Falana also asked the state governor to rather go to court if he felt the suspended council chairman had committed libel against him.

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