The Governorship Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State, Ladi Adebutu, says he had not been invited by the police over the allegation of vote buying.

Adebutu while reacting to the suit against him at the High Court over alleged voting buying,insisted that he was neither invited by the police nor served any court document regarding the suit.

He described the suit as an abuse of the court process and a plot by the state governor, Dapo Abiodun and the All Progressives Congress to distract the Tribunal from doing its job.

The office of the Attorney-General had reportedly filed a suit against Adebutu and nine others over the allegation of money laundering and vote buying.

But, debunking the report that he travelled out of the country to evade police arrest, Adebutu said he travelled on 25 April for his usual medical route check-up after the election.

“We are just seeing it also in the media and I will just want to make some points clear, Oladipupo Adebutu has not been served with any court document as regards any charges except for the media trial that we are seeing all around to mislead the public and the Tribunal.”

“They (APC and Abiodun) are only trying to distract people and distract the judiciary from giving proper attention to the merit of the petition before them. They should allow the Tribunal to do their job, this is an abuse of court process, they should allow the Tribunal do their job and at the end of the day we will know who actually perpetrated vote buying or not,” he stated. (The PUNCH)