Demola Adeleke is an Inexperienced Politician, I’ll Floor Him At the Polls – APC Candidate, Hussein Boasts

By Olabode Abolaji

Senator Mudashiru Hussein who is the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress for the Osun West Senatorial By-Election has expressed the conviction that he will floor his opponent, Dr Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democracy Party at the polls.

Speaking on a Rave fm programme in Osogbo on Monday, Hussein noted that the brother to the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke whose death paved way for the forthcoming elections is an inexperienced politician whose campaign “is just based on leveraging on the antecedents of a brother.”

The Ejigbo born politician opined that the PDP Candidate is just a political follower who is not fully bred to take up the challenges of an office like that of a Senator.

According to him “Even when his late brother, Sen Isiaka Adeleke was alive, I defeated him in 2007 but was rigged out. I won him with a huge margin in 2011 when he congratulated me with a written letter which I have with me.”

“You see Politics is not (Oye-Idile) Hereditary as we say in Yorubaland. It is a contest of ideas and not leveraging on a family member’s political history. I stepped down from the position to contest my second term to work for Adeleke even though I did not reject the wish of my party.”

He added “As a loyal party man, I supported Adeleke’s course and dropped my ambition and when I was called again to serve in the election, I accepted. What happened to Sen Isiaka Adeleke was something all of us were bitter about but it was from God who we could not question.”

On his chances of victory at the By-Election, he explained that “I know that Ede Zone is his stronghold. In Ede South, I will win convincingly there while in Ede North where Ademola Adeleke comes from, we will share the spoils. In all other areas, I’ll floor him and be victorious at the end.”

Sen Hussein maintained that his achievements in his first sojourn in the Senate are visible and enough to return him back to the National Assembly.