Senator Isiaka Adeleke has died at the age of 62.
Adeleke
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three-term senator was elected on the platform of the All
Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015. The three-term Senator currently
represents Osun West Senatorial district having won the election on the
platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015.
Adeleke
died Sunday at Bikets Hospital in Oshogbo, the Osun state capital, after
suffering a heart attack according to family sources.
Adeleke, the first civilian governor of Osun state, in 2014, dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
At
an event in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, while leading thousands of
his supporters to defect to APC, Adeleke noted that with the alleged
assault on him by the then Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan,
and candidate of the PDP, Iyiola Omisore, he and his followers were no
longer safe in the party.
he former governor claimed he was called
upon by the leaders of the PDP to contest the governorship seat in Osun
having realised that Omisore stood no chance against the incumbent
governor, Rauf Aregbesola.
He said he was thereafter betrayed and hounded.
“I
am happy to be in the progressives. I was a governor under the Social
Democratic Party (SDP) which was a progressive party, I was fully
involved in the struggle for June I2″, Adeleke said.
“I was asked to come and vie for
governorship that Omisore is not capable, I accepted, but a day to the
congress I got to the hotel in Osogbo. The people I sent there were on
the floor with guns pointed at their heads and I told the police that
they are members of our party from Ede.
“I then moved towards
the room where I met Sogo Agboola, Jelili Adesiyan, Iyiola Omisore, Gani
Olaoluwa and others. As I was about explaining what happened outside to
the Minister, he descended on me with blows. So also was Omisore and
others.
“They are a party breeding thugs. How can a whole
minister of the Federal Republic be boxing, I have nothing against PDP,
but I don’t see myself working for a criminal. I can’t support a violent
person to go to the Government House.”
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