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The Governor-elect of Osun State, Senator Ademola Adeleke on Monday broke down in tears on television while recounting the impact his late brother, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, had on him and how it propelled him to win the Osun Governorship election.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Senator Adeleke, candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the election, was announced as the winner on Sunday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“This victory, I dedicate it to him [Isiaka Adeleke] because he taught me how to {breaks down in tears}. His spirit still lives. He died for this cause. He wanted to be the Governor to save our people, out of slavery. Look at what happened, he died because of this cause.
“I am so happy that his spirit still lives. The younger brother; he was the first executive governor of Osun State, the younger brother, now the governor-elect. I thank you God because his spirit still lives,” Adeleke said in the exclusive interview televised on Channels TV Politics Today.
TNG reports Isiaka Adeleke was a two-time Senator, who represented the PDP in Osun State from 2007 to 2011 and was elected again under the banner of the All Progressives Congress in 2015.
He became a member of the Nigerian Senate in 2007. He ran for re-election in April 2011 on the PDP platform, coming second with 77,090 votes. The winner was Mudasiru Oyetunde Hussein of the Action Congress of Nigeria(ACN) with 121,971 votes.
Senator Isiaka Adeleke suffered a heart attack and died on 23 April, 2017 at Biket Hospital in Osogbo, the Osun State capital