Ademola Adeleke: Things To Know About Osun Governor-elect

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Osun State Governorship election, Ademola Adeleke, has been declared the winner of the exercise.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday declared that Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to win the keenly-contested election.

While the incumbent governor of the state and governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Gboyega Oyetola gathered 375,027 votes.

Adeleke won 17 local government areas in the state, while Governor Oyetola won the remaining 13 local government areas in the state.

The PDP governorship candidate was declared the winner at the head office of INEC in Osogbo, the state capital by the INEC returning officer, Prof Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe.

Below are things to know about the Osun Gov-elect Adeleke

1. Ademola Nurudeen Jackson is from the Adeleke family of Ede in Osun State

2. The Osun governor-elect was born on 13 May 1960. He is 62 years old.

3. Adeleke is a father of five including B-Red and uncle to popular musician, Davido.

4. Adeleke commenced his primary education at Methodist Primary School, Surulere Lagos State then relocated to Old Oyo State and attended Nawarudeen Primary School, Ikire.

5. He progressed to The Seventh Day Adventist Secondary School, Ede also in the then Old Oyo State and later moved to Ede Muslim Grammar School Ede, where he finished his secondary school education before relocating to the United States.

6. He started higher studies at Jacksonville State University, Alabama in the United States where he majored in criminal justice and with a minor in political science.

7. After much controversies surrounding his educational qualification, he went back to school and got enrolled at Atlanta Metropolitan State College in the United States where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in criminal justice in 2021.

8. Adeleke started his political career in 2001 alongside his late brother Senator Isiaka Adeleke who died in April 2017.

9. The businessman was a member of the All Progressives Congress until he decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party in April 2017.

10. He contested the Osun West 2017 by-election after the death of his brother, emerging as the winner under the People’s Democratic Party.

11. Adeleke ran for Osun state governorship election under the PDP against top contenders Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola of APC and Iyiola Omisore of SDP on 22 September 2018.

12. The election was declared inconclusive by the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) and a rerun was slated for 27 September 2018. The candidate of the APC Oyetola was declared the winner after the run-off.

13. On 22 March 2019, the tribunal sitting in Abuja declared Adeleke the winner of the election.

14. The Supreme Court later affirmed Gboyega Oyetola as the authentic winner of the 2018 Osun State governorship election on Friday, 5 July 2019.

15. He contested the 2022 Osun state gubernatorial election and won with a total vote of 403, 371 over the incumbent governor, Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola, who got a total vote of 375, 027.