Senator Isiaka Adeleke has died at the age of 62.
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.
The 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 (PDP) which was a progressive party, I was fully
involved in the struggle for June I2″, Adeleke said.