Adeleke is the younger brother of
Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, the occupant of the seat before his controversial
demise.
Rumours of the state government
playing a key role in the senator's death has refused to die down despite the
report of a coroner inquest instituted by the government. Osun by-election:
Adeleke defects to PDP over APC's panel
decision Adeleke undergoing his registration as a member of the PDP
Sahara Reporters shared pictures
from the official defection of the younger Adeleke to the PDP. The chairman of
the PDP in Osun state, Soji Adagunodo also confirmed the defection of Adeleke
to The Punch via a text message.
The secretary, Adeleke Support
Group, Alhaji Saheed Afolabi, also confirmed that Adeleke had picked the PDP
nomination form to contest the primary expected to hold today, Wednesday, June
14. Osun by-election: Adeleke defects to PDP over APC's panel decision Adeleke
displaying his PDP membership form His words: “Otunba Ademola Adeleke has
picked the PDP nomination form.
He is only going for affirmation
because the PDP has talked to their aspirants and they have all agreed that
Ademola Adeleke should be given the ticket.”
“The APC screening committee
disqualified Senator Mudashiru Hussain, the appeal committee disqualified him
but the NWC, after an intervention by some powerful persons, manipulated the
whole thing and overturned it. We know what they mean but we are also ready for
them. “The entire people of the Osun-West senatorial district are solidly behind
Ademola Adeleke.
They cannot stop him and he is going
to win this election. “Our appeal to INEC and the Acting President, Yemi
Osinbajo, is that they should not allow the desperate APC leaders in Osun state
to use them to rig the election.”
All is not well in the Osun state
chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) - The rumbles in the party has
to do with the by-election in Osun-West senatorial district - The party may
have lost one of its major contenders to the opposition The APC aspirant in the
Osun-West senatorial district, Chief Ademola Adeleke has defected to the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the July 8 senatorial by-election.
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