By Kayode Adeoti

Former governorship candidate
under the Alliance for Democracy
(AD) in Kwara State, Senator
Sulyman Makanjuola Ajadi on
Tuesday dragged his lover,
Haleemat Temitope Abdulazeez to
court over alleged fraud.
The Senator claimed his lover,
who is a student of Kwara State
University (KWASU), Malete
defrauded him to the tune of
N750,000.
Ajadi through his counsel, Salman
Jawondo approached the court
with a motion ex-parte dated 31st
August 2017.
The grounds of application filed
before Magistrate Monisola
Gbadeyan Kamson, stated that:
“The plaintiff/applicant’s claim
against the defendant is for
recovery of debt and/or liquidated
money demanded which exceeds
20 pounds.
Ajadi who was examined in chief
told the court that since Haleemat
failed to cede to his marriage
proposal, hence the need to claim
money expended on her
education.
The former lawmaker claimed he
met his lover two years ago
through a chatting social network;
WhatsApp while he was on
vacation in Abuja.
“I was in Abuja that day when I
saw her message on my
WhatsApp, I questioned if she
knew me, she replied that she
want to see me whenever I was in
Ilorin. About two weeks later, I
came to Ilorin and I notified her
through WhatsApp.
“When she finally came to my
house at Foyeke Street, Tanke
area, she knelt, crying that I
should please help her secure
admission into either University of
Ilorin, Al-Hikmah University or
Kwara State University, Malete. I
promised to help after asking of
her parent,” he stressed.
According to Ajadi, after securing
admission at KWASU, she
approached me for a loan of
N550,000 to offset her school
fees adding that the father
promised to pay whenever
government pays his 14-month
salary arrears.
“I asked her to bring the
requirements, it was all N550,000
and I paid it in instalment.”
He further informed the court that
their relationship took a dramatic
twist the day he jokingly sought
Haleemat’s hand in marriage,
adding that she stopped coming
to him for about a month.
“When she finally released her
father’s phone numbers, they
turned out to be contact saved on
my phone as Imam Alasho
Abayawo. That was when I
became suspicious.
“Upon my insistence to know her
parents, I called on my friend, a
retired Permanent Secretary in the
state, Alhaji Abdulramon Oyinloye
who went with me. When I got
there, I met only the mother
outside the house, who came out
from the dark… She later took us
to another house, when I sensed
something was amiss, I gave the
girl N10,000 in annoyance and
left not meeting the parent.”
Ajadi further told the court that
after a week, Haleemat visited him
again to demand for a loan of
N100.000 to boost her mother’s
business adding that he deposited
the money into her bank account.
Barely two weeks after he paid the
money into her account, Ajadi
stressed that he paid another
N100,000 to the same bank
account following demand from
Haleemat’s father.
“Now that they’ve collected the
money, things have changed.
They hardly pick calls. The father
did not make himself available
again,” he lamented.
The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) chieftain stated that despite
informing one Dr. Oladimeji, who
helped secure admission for the
girl about the sudden change in
her character, nothing has
changed.
The court however adjourned the
matter to 15th February, 2018 for
cross examination and defence.