Alhaji Isiaka Adeleke, the former governor of Osun State and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Friday miraculously escaped assassins’ bullet in Ede, his home town.
The Nation reports that Adeleke’s vehicle was waylaid while the ex governor was on his way to his mother’s house around 1pm in the afternoon by gunmen suspected to be assassins, who were in a convoy of four vehicles.
Adeleke, who made this known on Saturday shortly after his accreditation at Sagba Abogunde ward in Ede town, alleged that one of the assailants is a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) youth leader.
He said the alleged PDP member identified him (Adeleke) in his car and kept shouting on him to open the car door.
Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke was the first civilian Executive Governor Of Osun State (1992–1993), before the military government aborted the transition to full civilian administration. He became a member of the Nigerian Senate in 2007 under PDP platform of in Osun State. He sought re-election in April 2011 under the platform of the PDP, but emerged second with 77,090 votes, while Mudasiru Oyetunde Hussein of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) won the polls with 121,971 votes.
Meanwhile, it would be recalled that the incumbent governor, Rauf Aregbesola, had earlier accused Nigeria’s minister of state for defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, and the Police Affairs Minister, Jelil Adesiyan, of planning to assassinate two APC members in the state
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