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  • Osun by-election: Adeleke, Hussein confident of victory

    Osun by-election: Adeleke, Hussein confident of victory

    The candidates of All Progressive Congress (APC), Mudashiru Husain, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Ademola Adeleke, in Osun West Senatorial District by-election have expressed the hope of winning the election.

    The two candidates, who spoke with newsmen while casting their votes in their respective polling units, said they had what it takes to win the election.

    Adeleke, who cast his vote at Abogunde Unit 9, Ward 2 in Ede North Local Government, said the massive turnout of the electorate was a strong signal that he would be victorious.

    “I feel great to be the candidate of the PDP in this by-election. My morale is very high and I am so confident that victory shall be ours.

    ” The support is overwhelming and today is the day. I am 100 per cent confident of victory.

    “As you can see, it rained this morning before the voting commenced. This is a signal of the fact that I will carry the day.

    “With this large turnout also, its unarguable that I will beat Hussein hands down by God’s grace,” he said.

    Adeleke commended the electorate for coming out en mass to vote and thanked INEC for conducting a hitch-free election.

    He also commended the various security operatives for ensuring a peaceful environment

    The APC candidate, Hussain, said his achievement while he was in the Senate, would give him victory in the election.

    ” I want to commend the electorate for coming out in large number and I also want to commend INEC for the peaceful process.

    ” This process has shown that INEC has improved tremendously.”

    Hussain, who represented the District between 2011 and 2015, said he was sure of victory.

    “The report I am getting from the field is very encouraging and the turnout is an indication that people want me back in the Senate.”

    ” My achievements while in the Senate will speak for me,” he said

     

     

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  • Osun by-election: ‘I did not borrow money from Adeleke to pay workers’ salaries’ – Aregbesola

    Osun by-election: ‘I did not borrow money from Adeleke to pay workers’ salaries’ – Aregbesola

    …accuses late politician’s brother of using his death to manipulate the minds of voters

    Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on Wednesday said he did not at anytime seek financial assistance from the Adelekes to help bail the state out of its current financial crisis as claimed by the late Senator’s family and supporters.

    The governor noted that the family of the late Senator Isiaka Adeleke has been using his death to manipulate the minds of Ede residents.

    Aregbesola explained that since the death of the former Osun State governor in April, many lies and fabrications had emanated from his family and some of his loyalists.

    He said the younger brother to the late politician, Dr. Deji Adeleke reportedly claimed he lent the Aregbesola administration the money to pay workers’ salaries.

    Aregbesola also said it was unthinkable that the Adeleke family claimed that he begged the late Senator to join the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The governor spoke in Ede when he led the campaign train of Senator Mudashir Husain to the town ahead of Saturday’s senatorial by-election.

    Ede is the home town of the late Adeleke.

    The governor and the Timi of Ede, Oba Muniru Adesola Lawal, called for peace before, during and after the election.

    They said the poll should not cause a crisis among the people.

    Aregbesola recalled that the APC did its best for the late former governor when the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) maltreated him.

    The governor said it was the late Adeleke who voluntarily joined the APC because of the treatment he got in the PDP.

    On the purported claim that the Adeleke family helped his re-election, the governor said he never collected a kobo them.

    In his words: “Deji Adeleke does not have the financial capacity to bail Osun out of its financial challenges, even before now; let alone lending us money to pay workers’ salaries. If anything at all, it is their family that sought and got favours from the Osun State government under my watch. It is to the glory of God that they got the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) of their university from our government. Why didn’t those who are their new friends give them C of O of that university?”

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that INEC had fixed July 8 for the bye-election following the death of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke, representing Osun West, on April 23.

     

  • Osun by- election: Adeleke dumps APC for PDP ahead of primary

    Osun by- election: Adeleke dumps APC for PDP ahead of primary

    Baring any last minute change of plan, the All Progressives Congress, APC, aspirant in the Osun-West senatorial district, Chief Ademola Adeleke, may have defected to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to contest the July 8 senatorial by-election.

    A chieftain of the PDP, who pleaded anonymity, said this in a telephone interview with The Punch on Tuesday.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Ademola, younger brother to late Senator Isiaka Adeleke who died in April is posed to succeed his brother as the Senator representing Osun West.

    The PDP chieftain said Adeleke would contest on the platform of the opposition party.

    He said, “We have been talking to our leaders and members on this. We want to win this election and we know that he is popular. Adeleke will contest on the platform of the PDP.

    “The APC has decided to clear Mudashiru Hussain despite his disqualification and the Adeleke group is aware that the APC primary would be manipulated to favour Hussain.”

    One of the supporters of Adeleke, who pleaded anonymity also confirmed Ademola’s defection to the opposition party.

    He, however, said the camp was waiting for the PDP to break the news.

    The Chairman of the PDP in Osun State, Soji Adagunodo also confirmed the defection of Adeleke to the PDP via a text message.

    The Secretary, Adeleke Support Group, Alhaji Saheed Afolabi, who is a chieftain of the APC, said Adeleke had picked the PDP nomination form to contest the primary expected to hold on Wednesday.

    He said, “Otunba Ademola Adeleke has picked the PDP nomination form. You will see him at the PDP primary election tomorrow. He is only going for affirmation because the PDP has talked to their aspirants and they have all agreed that Ademola Adeleke should be given the ticket.”

    “The APC Screening Committee disqualified Senator Mudashiru Hussain, the Appeal Committee disqualified him but the NWC, after an intervention by some powerful persons, manipulated the whole thing and overturned it. We know what they mean but we are also ready for them.

    “The entire people of the Osun-West senatorial district are solidly behind Ademola Adeleke. They cannot stop him and he is going to win this election. Our appeal to INEC and the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, is that they should not allow the desperate APC leaders in Osun State to use them to rig the election.”

    However, Adeleke and his media aide could not be reached to validate the defection.

  • By-election primary: APC clears Adeleke’s brother, disqualifies Aregbesola’s aide

    The All Progressives Congress Screening Committee has cleared the younger brother of late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, Ademola to participate in the party’s senatorial primary scheduled to hold on Monday (today) to pick the party’s flag bearer in the by-election to fill the Osun-West senatorial district seat at the Senate.

    The party however disqualified the Osun State Commissioner for Cabinet Matters, Senator Mudashiru Hussein from participating in the primary.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the seat became vacant following the death of Senator Isiaka Adeleke on April 23 and the Independence National Electoral Commission, INEC, has fixed July 8 for the by-election.

    The committee communicated the disqualification to Hussein in a letter signed by its chairman, who is Zamfara State House of Assembly Speaker, Sanusi Rikiji, and secretary, Maj.-Gen. Charles Airhiavbere (retd.).

    The letter was given to Hussein on Sunday.

    The committee, however, cleared Adeleke’s younger brother, Ademola, for the primary election but told Hussein that he could appeal his disqualification.

    Except the disqualification verdict is overturned by the appeal committee, Adeleke’s brother may pick the APC ticket unopposed because other aspirants stepped down for Hussein and him shortly before the screening started on Saturday.

    The letter of disqualification read, “The committee wishes to refer you to the All Progressives Congress 2014 guidelines for the nomination of candidates for public office. Minimum requirement at page two states inter alia, ‘In conformity with the provision of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, qualification for aspirants to respective offices in state Houses of Assembly, House of Representatives; Senate; Governorship and the Presidency, prescribes that aspirants seeking public office on its platform shall not have remained as an employee of the public service within 30 days preceding the date of an election.”

  • Isiaka Adeleke: INEC fixes July 8 for by-election

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed July 8, to conduct the by-election to fill the Osun West Senatorial District vacant seat at the upper legislative chamber.

    This was contained in a notice made public on Monday and signed by the Administrative Secretary of INEC in Osun State, Ademusire E.A.

    “Consequent upon the provisions of the enabling statutes that bye-elections to fill the declared vacant seat by the National Assembly be conducted within 30 days upon the declaration, take notice that by the directives of the Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, Bye Election for Osun West Senatorial seat will hold on Saturday 8th July 2017,” it read.

    A former governorship aspirant on the platform of the Labour Party, Mr. Wale Alakinde, has already confirmed he will run for the position, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    The position was previously held by Senator Isiaka Adeleke, who died April 23, after he was said to have attended to guests till around 2am the same day.

  • Adeleke: Coroner reveals cause of death

    The Coroner appointed by the Osun State Government to investigate the cause of death of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke, on Monday declared that his death was caused by drug overdose.
    The Coroner, Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara while giving his verdict in Osogbo, said all the evidence before him in no way pointed to poisoning as the cause of death of the late senator as alleged in some quarters.
    “I have critically gone through all the evidence before me. From the totality of evidence the possibility of poisoning of the deceased is not sustainable.
    “I have not been able to trace any link to poisoning by anybody. The autopsy report and also the toxicologist’s report are very specific to say there was no trace of poison or heavy metal in the blood of the deceased.
    “Therefore it is my firm opinion that he was not poisoned, I so hold.” he said
    He said the evidence of the pathologist, the toxicologist, police forensic expert, and the Chief Medical Director of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital,where the autopsy was carried out, “all pointed scientifically to the fact that the death of the deceased was caused by aspiration of the gastric content which blocked his airwaves as a result of high level of alcohol, sedative, analgesic which cause the vital senses centre in the brain to shut down resulting in death.”
    Ayilara said the nurse who treated the deceased before he died, Mr Alfred Aderibigbe, tried to puncture the scientific evidence, claiming he did not give him overdose but the evidence he gave in court and the police statement he gave were contradictory.
    “The deceased did not die of food poisoning, the deceased has an administration of overdose of sedative and analgesic by an unqualified personnel, Alfred Aderibigbe, through intravenous means which action was hastened by the presence of alcohol in the system.
    “The deceased had patronised the said Aderibigbe for about 20 years and had taken treatment from him without doctor’s prescription and that the high dose of sedative and analgesic with the mode of administration caused his death.
    ‘’The coroner, however, recommended that the qualification of Aderibigbe should be further investigated to be sure he was qualified as he claimed and that the office of the Department of Public Prosecution should look into the case file of Aderibigbe with them with a view to determine the appropriate charges, if any, to be pressed against him.
    “The public should be sensitised by the government to the need to visit and patronise only qualified medical personnel in treatment of their ailments.” he said

     

     

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  • Coroner fixes May 29, for final verdict on Adeleke’s death

    The Coroner Inquest set up by Osun Government to investigate the cause of death of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke has fixed May 29 to give its final verdict on its findings.

    The Coroner, Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara made this known during the court’s sitting on Monday in Osogbo.

    Ayilara said that the court commenced sitting on May 10, and 10 out of the 15 respondents summoned by the court had appeared before it.

    “This court summoned 15 persons to appear before it, an advertisement which was published on May 11 in two national newspapers, the Tribune and The Nation.

    “However, only 10 out of the respondents appeared before this court. I will not force anybody to appear before this court neither can we wait forever for them to appear.

    “Their refusal to appear before this tribunal is intentional and so I am setting Monday, May 29 for the final verdict. By then we should know where we are going.’’ he said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that since the coroner started sitting, the major people that saw the late senator had appeared before the court to give evidence.

    They include the nurse that treated him before his death and the forensic team that carried out autopsy on him.

    The Adeleke family, however, refused to honour the invitation of the court, stating in a news conference that the death of the senator was being politicised.

    According to them, and that they are not in support of the setting up of the coroner inquest by the state government

  • Adeleke: What I gave late Senator before death – Nurse

    Mr Alfred Aderibigbe, the nurse who treated Sen. Isiaka Adeleke before he died, on Thursday in Osogbo told a coroner inquest that he never administered a drug overdose on the late politician as was reported.

    Aderibigbe, while giving evidence before the coroner, Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, said all the drugs he administered on the late first civilian governor of Osun were in normal dosage.

    He also told the coroner that he had been treating the late senator in the last 15 years, adding that the drugs he administered on Adeleke the day he died were those the late politician gave to him.

    Aderibigbe said: “The senator gave me his drugs which he brought from Lagos to keep on the evening of Monday, April 17, with the understanding that when he wants to take them, he will call me to bring them.

    “On Sunday, April 23, at about 4 am, I was, however, woken up by two men from the senator who banged on my gate and later informed me that the senator had been calling my phone and that I was not picking my calls.

    “They said the senator needed me to come and treat him and that I should bring his drugs along.

    “ I later went inside to get them and also found the calls I missed on my phone.

    “I called the senator but his friend, one Dipo Fagborode, picked his call.

    “ As he was explaining what was going on, the senator himself collected the phone and asked me to come quickly that he was having serious knee pains.

    “When I got to the senator’s house, he asked for his drugs and gave me his prescription which contained the dose I was to administer on him.

    “The drugs which the senator kept with me that was to be administered on him were Analgin injection, Diazepam injection, photroine injection and hydrocortisone.

    “ But the senator said I should not give him hydrocortisone because when he took it in Lagos, he had headache and was also vomiting.

    “So the other drugs was what I gave him and they were in the right dosage.

    “ Even when the prescription said he should be given 20mg of diazepam, I had to limit it to 10mg because I discovered he had taken some oral pain painkillers.

    “The two other injections I gave him were in the right proportion too– 50mg of Analgin and 1mg of photroine.

    “ I waited for him to sleep and finish the drip/water I had already placed him on before I took my leave around 7:30 am.

    “The reason I took my leave was to inform my church because the day was a Sunday and I would not be able to teach the Sunday class.

    “ I returned back to the Adeleke residence by 9:30 am.

    “Before I left, I had told the senator’s friend, who was with me throughout the treatment, to watch over him.

    “ When I returned, I found the senator in the sleeping position I left him, and on closer observation, his heart rate had dropped and his pulse was faint.

    “I quickly gave him cardiac massage and called on his friend, Dipo, to assist me and when the situation was beyond my control, I raised an alarm and he was quickly rushed to Biket hospital.

    “By the time we got him to Biket hospital, the CMD, Dr Adebisi Adenle, examined his body and pronounced him “Brought in Dead.”

    He asked his friend what happen and he was told that the deceased complained of knee joint pain (gout) and that I gave him some treatment.

    “The doctor now asked me what drugs I administered on the deceased and I told him.

    “ He then said it was the normal drug treatment for gout.

    “ But as the empty containers and the previous drugs the deceased had taken were brought to the hospital on the doctor’s request, lies broke out that he died of overdose.

    “The lies were generated by the crowd that had gathered at the hospital because Sen. Adeleke’s campaign bus and his Escalade were used to convey him to the hospital.

    “ As they drove against traffic, people got the hint that he was in trouble and gathered to find out more.

    Aderibigbe said after the incident, he was arrested by the police and detained till May 2 before he was granted bail.

    He said since he was granted bail, he had not returned to work or his house in Ede, having been placed under protective custody.

    Ayilara lamented that he had now been accused of killing Adeleke while his wife and children had fled from the family home.

    In earlier testimonies before the coroner, the Chief Medical Director of Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, said Adeleke died of drug overdose.

    The Consultant Pathologist, who carried out the autopsy on Adeleke’s corpse, Dr Taiwo Sholaja, also claimed that he died of drug overdose.

    The coroner’s sitting was later adjourned till Friday.

  • JUST IN: Adeleke didn’t die from food poisoning – Pathologist reveals

    The lead pathologist who carried out the autopsy on the body of the late Sen. Isiaka Adeleke, Dr Taiwo Sholaja, on Wednesday told a coroner inquest that no trace of poison was found in the body system of the deceased when it was examined.

    Sholaja, while giving evidence before the coroner, Chief Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, said the autopsy carried out by him and two other pathologists from Ladoke Akintola University Hospital, LAUTECH, Osogbo, revealed that the late senator died of “aspiration of gastric content due to multiple drug overdose.’’

    He said the autopsy carried out by him and his team was performed in the presence of the Police Divisional Officer of Dugbe Police Station, Osogbo, SP Ogunkanmi Gbemileke and the two other pathologists from LAUTECH.

    Sholaja also said that before the autopsy, he gathered from a family member, Mrs Modupe Adeleke-Sani, that the late politician had complained of pains in the knees, and inability to sleep.

    He added that some drugs were said to have been administered on him.

    Sholaja said after an examination was carried out on Adeleke’s body, it was discovered that the drugs which were administered on him in excess quantity caused his death as his breathing was blocked due to a side effect.

    “Aspiration of the gastric content blocked his airwaves through depriving the body of oxygen which was also evident in the bluish discolouration shown on some parts of the deceased’s body,’’ he said.

    He said the used containers of the drugs administered on him indicated that a banned drug, Analgin injection as well as Diazepam injection, pentasozine injection, gentamicin and hydrocortisone drugs were given to him.

    The pathologist said the side effects of most of the drugs given to the deceased included drowsiness, vomiting and cardiovascular collapse which resulted in blockage of his breathing.

    He said though the deceased had a hypertensive heart decease which could have caused sudden death, there was, however, no evidence of this from the result of the autopsy.

    Sholaja also said the police toxicologist report, which was presented to him after samples were taken, showed abnormally high level of alcohol, sedative and Analgin in the blood of the deceased.

    No traces of poison and metal was, however, found.

    Gbemileke, the DPO of Dugbe Police Station and the Officer in charge of Homicide, SP Etetah Moses, both confirmed that the empty bottles and injections of the drugs given to the deceased were in police custody.

    But when Mr Aderibigbe Alfred, the nurse that administered the drugs on Adeleke was called, his counsel, Lekan Alabi, prayed the court to allow his client appear on Friday.

    He said the summon was only served on him on Tuesday, adding that his client needed more time to prepare.

    The coroner, however, rejected the plea, saying Alfred must appear before the court on Thursday, the next adjourned date.

     

     

     

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  • Adeleke: Coroner threatens to issue bench warrant against police officers, others

    The coroner panel set up by the Osun government on the death of Sen. Isiaka Adeleke on Tuesday threatened to issue a bench warrant against some police officers and other witnesses who fail to appear before it.

    The Coroner, Olusegun Ayilara, issued the threat following the absence of the Divisional Police Officer of Dugbe Police Station, Osogbo, at the panel’s sitting.

    Also absent at the panel’s sitting was the Officer in charge of Homicide.

    Ayilara said: “The OC homicide and DPO are expected tomorrow.

    “ They need to come and I want to say this that nobody is on trial here.

    “ This is not a criminal proceeding. I am not going to stop anybody from going back to his or her house and I won’t force anybody to say what he doesn’t want to say.

    “We need facts from police officers, medical doctors and other relevant bodies involved in the autopsy exercise, most importantly the DPO of Dugbe police Station and OC Homicide.

    “By the virtue of the coroner’s law, everyone involved in this exercise must appear to give testimony.

    “ And as such, I need the police officer and others to be able to explain to the court that they identified the corpse, that is what we need.

    ” For this reason, failure to appear before this coroner inquest panel would be interpreted otherwise because if they don’t come, I will assume that they are deliberately frustrating our efforts.

    “We are constrained and we have a limited time of three weeks and this is the second week.

    “ We want to take all evidence by the end of this week so that I can use the last week to put things together.

    “We issued the summon yesterday and they have 48 hours to answer.

    “ That is why I will fix tomorrow for them. As a matter of fact, if the necessary parties are not here tomorrow, we will issue bench warrant against them.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that at Monday’s sitting, the CMD of LAUTECH Teaching Hospital where Adeleke’s corpse was taken to for autopsy, Prof. Akeem Lasisi, had said the late politician was given an overdose of banned injections.

    This submission, he said, was proven by the empty ampoules of injections brought by a family member.

    Lasisi said the DPO of Dugbe Police Station, OC Homicide and the pathologists had in their care the empty ampoules of injection administered on Adeleke, inaddition to the pictures which they took.

    The coroner adjourned sitting till Wednesday when the summoned officers were expected to testify.

     

     

     

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