– Senator Isiaka Adeleke’s brother, Ademola has become the PDP candidate for Osun senatorial bye-election
– Ademola had earlier defected to PDP, citing manipulation in the APC process
– The seat had become vacant following the death of the former occupier, late Isiaka Adeleke
The younger brother of late Isiaka Adeleke, Demola, has emerged the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Osun West Senatorial District bye-election.
ZENITHBLOG.com gathered that Mr. Adeleke, who had been cleared to contest for the primary on the platform of APC, defected to PDP on Tuesday evening June 13.
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Mr. Adeleke was set to contest the primary in APC unopposed after his opponent, Mudashiru Hussein, was disqualified on Sunday by the APC screening committee headed by Zamfara Assembly Speaker, Sanusi Rikiji.
Hours after dumping APC, Isiaka Adeleke’s brother emerges PDP candidate for Osun bye-election
Mr. Hussein was disqualified by the committee which stated that he was still in active public service against the party’s stipulated guideline.
According to Mr. Rikiji, the party’s guideline stipulates that any aspirant that wants to contest an elective office is expected to have resigned from the public service 30 days before the primaries.
Mr. Hussein was the Commissioner for Cabinet Matters in the Rauf Aregbesola administration which was inaugurated on May 30.
The disqualification was upheld by the Appeal Committee of the party headed by Abdulahi Bello.
Mr. Hussein was, however, cleared on Monday June 13 evening by the National Working Committee of the APC to contest the primary.
Mr. Adeleke, who contested the PDP primary unopposed on Wednesday June 14 in Iwo Local Government Area of the state, scored 343 votes.
In his acceptance speech, Mr. Adeleke said the PDP would win the election.
“I accepted to contest the election under PDP and come July 8, we shall have victory.
“Victory shall be ours and nothing can stop us. We are moving forward because it is God’s project,’’ he said.
The PDP Chairman in the state, Soji Adagunodo, said the party would win the bye-election.
According to him, there is no faction in PDP but only aggrieved members.
“We are going to win the election and come 2018, we will still win,” he said.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed July 8 for the bye-election following the vacuum created by the death of Senator Adeleke on April 23.
ZENITHBLOG.com had previously reported that the APC aspirant in the Osun-West senatorial district, Chief Ademola Adeleke defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to contest the July 8 senatorial by-election.
Adeleke is the younger brother of Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke, the occupant of the seat before his controversial demise.
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