A senator in the current 8th Assembly, and a three term senator representing Osun West senatorial district, Isiaka Adeleke has been 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
Sometimes, we just have to deal with the fact that life doesn’t always go our way. We just have to remain positive. #RIPSenatorIsiakaAdeleke
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 political thrillers as he earned the nickname, SERUBAWON, after he beat older political gladiators in the primaries of the Social Democratic Party 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.