Aregbesola, APC Mourn Adeleke

• Party: He lived an Accomplished, Impactful Life

By Olabode Abolaji

Osun State Governor, Mr Rauf Aregbesola has sympathized with the family, people of Ede and the entire state on the death of its first Civilian Governor, Senator Isiaka Adeleke.

The Governor who is in London wrote on his official twitter handle @raufaregbesola on Sunday afternoon, “My condolences to the Adeleke Family, the people of Ede and the Osun APC Family. Osun has lost an illustrious son. May God comfort the family.”

Also, The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mourned the sudden death of the first civilian governor of Osun State and the party’s Senator representing Osun West Senatorial Zone, Alhaji Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke.

In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, the party expressed deep sympathies to the immediate family, people and government of Osun State over late Adeleke’s death.

APC said the late two-time Senator who served in the present 8th Senate as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Capital Market was a de-trabalised Nigerian, a democrat, an astute grassroots politician and philanthropist who distinguished himself in all positions of service he occupied.

” The history of Osun State would be incomplete without copious reference to late Adeleke’s contributions to the State’s social, political and economic development as its first elected Governor.

” The Party recall with pride that the establishment of a polytechnic at Iree, a College of Technology at Esa-Oke and the setup of the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation (OSBC) are some of the notable legacies the late Adeleke’s administration bequeathed during his short stint as governor of the then newly-created Osun State.

“The Party is however consoled by the fact that the late Adeleke lived an accomplished and impactful life. May the Almighty God give the late Adeleke eternal rest and the family, the strength to bear the great loss,” Abdullahi stated.

In the meantime, the Osun state Chapter of the APC has described as a great blow to the party, the death of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke.

Mr Kunle Oyatomi, the party’s Publicity Secretary in the state, said in an interview on Sunday in Osogbo, that the shock was impossible to overcome.

According to him, the party is momentarily shaken and short of words to respond to this tragic event appropriately.

“We advise supporters, friends and family members to summon courage and mourn this fallen hero of Nigerian politics,’’ Oyatomi stressed.