Personality of the Week: Ademola Adeleke

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He started his political career in 2001 alongside his brother, the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, who died in April 2017.

Onyedika Agbedo

The road to yesterday’s governorship election in Osun State was very rough for the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ademola Nurudeen Adeleke, aka Jackson. Though Ademola, who became a senator through a bye-election following the death of his elder brother, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, is not entirely a neophyte in politics, he literarily began to experience the other side of the game the moment he emerged the candidate of the PDP for the Osun guber election.

His closest rival in the contest, Dr Akin Ogunbiyi, had alleged that the election was rigged in Adeleke’s favour and rejected the result. The squabble dragged on until September 5, when Senate President Bukola Saraki brokered peace.

Also, two members of his…



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