SENATE BYE-ELECTION: Late Adeleke’s brother gets PDP ticket to face APC’s Hussein

Ademola Adeleke, younger brother of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the race to replace the late Senator at the Senate.

Late Sen Adeleke, former governor of Osun State, died recently in a controversial circumstances, with fingers pointed at his APC party.

Ademola, the younger brother of the late senator won the PDP primary election held at the state Township Stadium and conducted by the Chief Pegba Otemolu-led National Committee of PDP’s national secretariat in Abuja with a total vote of 343.

His emergence came after two other contestants for the seat on the platform of the PDP, a former Minister of the Youth Development, Senator Olasunkanmi Akinlabi, and a retired Army Colonel, Olayiwola Falabi, stepped down for Adeleke.

Before defecting to PDP on Tuesday night and accepted as one of the party’s aspirant same night, Adeleke, was the sole aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Adeleke will now face a former commissioner in Osun State, Mudashiru Hussein, who emerged the All progressives Congress (APC) candidate, in the coming July 8, by-election in the state to replace his late brother.

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Hussein garnered a total vote of 2,412 out of the 2413 votes cast in the party’s primary held at De Distinguished Event Centre on the outskirts of Osogbo in Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, to emerge APC’s candidate for the election.

APC’s screening committee had earlier disqualified Hussein as an aspirant of the party.

However, soon after Adeleke’s defection to the PDP, a statement by APC spokesman in the state, Kunle Oyatomi, said that Hussein has been cleared to contest the election by the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC.

Adeleke’s family had fingered APC in the death of late Senator Adeleke, alleging that he might have been killed so that his ambition to become the next governor of the state will be defeated.

But an inquest set up by the state Governor Rauf Aregbesola in their findings said that the late senator died as a result of drug overdose.

 

 

 

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