The first Osun State Governor – after
the partition of old Oyo State – Governor Isiaka Adeleke SERUBAWON dies on Sunday
23rd April, 2017. He is a senator in the current 8th Assembly,
and a three term senator representing Osun West senatorial district, Isiaka
Adeleke was confirmed dead.
Sen. Adeleke died at the age of 62 at Bikets Hospital in
Osogbo, the Osun state capital after suffering a heart attack according to
family sources.
His death has been confirmed by the All Progressives Congress
(APC) through its twitter handle: @APCNigeria
The three-term Senator, was a former governor of the state
under the short-lived democratic dispensation under the Babangida administration.
His emergence as the governor then, fresh from the United
States, was still the stuff of a political thrillers as he earned the nickname,
SERUBAWON, after he beat older political gladiators in the primaries of the
Social Democratic Party (SDP) to clinch the ticket.
He was then just 37 years old.
Until his death, he was planning to run for the governorship
election in the state in 2018.
He was born as Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke in Enugu on 15 January
1955 to the family of Senator Ayoola Adeleke and Esther Adeleke.
He started his primary education at Christ Church School,
Enugu before moving to Ibadan. He had his secondary education at Ogbomoso
Grammar School and later went to the United States for his university
education.
He was Chairman, Governing Council, Nigerian
Export Promotion Council, Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council,
University of Calabar, Nigeria.
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