Isiaka Adeleke, a serving senator and first civilian governor of Osun State, is dead.
Adekele, who was 62, died in the early hours of Sunday at Bikets Hospital in Osogbo after suffering heart attack.
Later on Sunday, Adeleke’s corpse was taken to his residence in Ede, Osun State, where a crowd of sympathisers were waiting. He was scheduled to be buried at 4pm on Sunday according to Islamic rites but his corpse was later returned to the hospital for autopsy.
Adeleke, who represented Osun West at the Senate, reportedly showed no signs of ailing health prior to his death. He was said to have attended a party in Iwo, Osun State on the eve of his death.
“He came back from a party on Saturday, had slight stomach ache. Was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead this morning”, a source in his home town of Ede disclosed to Alabingo.
Adeleke became the first civilian governor of Osun State at the time the state was created in 1991. Adeleke was elected into the Nigerian senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007.
He was a PDP Senator between 2007 and 2011.
He crossed over to the All Progressives Congress (APC) before the 2015 general election.
He was re-elected into the senate in 2015.