The first civilian governor of Osun State, Senator Isiaka Adeleke, has passed on at the age of 62.
He was until his death on Sunday the senator representing Osun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly.
His death was confirmed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Twitter.
Sometimes, we just have to deal with the fact that life doesn’t always go our way. We just have to remain positive. #RIPSenatorIsiakaAdeleke pic.twitter.com/RfzLHWVGf8
— APC Nigeria (@APCNigeria) April 23, 2017
Family sources said the chairman of the Senate Committee on Capital Market died at a private hospital in Osogbo after suffering a heart attack.
Adeleke was in the Senate for the second time, having first represented Osun West between 2007 and 2011 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He could not return to the Senate in 2011, after he was defeated by Mudashiru Hussein of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
But in 2014, after a failed governorship bid, he defected to the APC on which platform he contested the 2015 Osun West senatorial election which he won to earn a second time in the Senate.
Adeleke became the first elected governor of Osun State in 1991 on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) during the short-lived democratic dispensation of General Ibrahim Babangida.
He was born in Enugu on 15 January 1955 to the family of Senator Ayoola Adeleke and Esther Adeleke.
Before his demise, he was planning to run for the 2018 governorship election in the state.
