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<\/div>\nThe Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday morning declared Ademola Adeleke the Governor-Elect of Osun State after scoring a majority of votes cast in the governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n
The victory came for Adeleke nearly four years after failing by a small margin in his bid to govern Osun State.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Adeleke polled 403,371 votes to defeat his closest rival, the incumbent governor of the state, Gboyega Oyetola, who polled 375,027 votes.<\/p>\n
Here are things to know about Ademola Adeleke:<\/p>\n
Ademola Adeleke was born on May 13, 1960, in Ede, Osun State. He hails from a popular and influential family from Ede in Ede Local Government Area.<\/p>\n
His mother is an Igbo-Christian named Nnena Esther Adeleke, while his father is a Muslim named Raji Ayoola Adeleke.<\/p>\n
Adedeji Adeleke is a Nigerian billionaire, business magnate and president of Adeleke University and the late Mr Isiaka Adeleke are Ademola\u2019s elder brothers. He is the third and final child of his parents.<\/p>\n
He became popular in politics after the demise of his brother, Isiaka Adeleke, who served as a senator for Osun-West.<\/p>\n
After the death of his elder brother on April 23, 2017, Ademola filled Isiaka\u2019s vacancy in the Senate, popularly called the \u201cdancing senator\u201d, Ademola Adeleke served as a senator for the Osun West Senatorial District between 2017 and 2019.<\/p>\n
Adeleke started his elementary education at Methodist Primary School in Surulere, Lagos State, and later transferred to Nawarudeen Primary School in Ikire.<\/p>\n
He went further at Ede Muslim Grammar School Ede, completing his secondary education before moving to the US to join his two elder brothers.<\/p>\n
According to Adeleke, he attended Jacksonville State University, Alabama, in the United States, where he studied criminal justice and political science.<\/p>\n
He later enrolled at Atlanta Metropolitan State College, where he bagged a Bachelor of Science in criminal justice in 2021.<\/p>\n
Adeleke served as the executive director of Pacific Holdings Limited\u2019s from 2001 to 2016; and later as a service contractor for Quicksilver Courier Company in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States.<\/p>\n
He was the vice president of Origin International LLC, a flavour and fragrance manufacturing company in Atlanta, Georgia, US from 1990 to 1994.<\/p>\n
Adeleke was accused of faking his secondary school testimonial and WAEC results in the build-up to his governorship election four years ago. However, the court dismissed the case.<\/p>\n
The dancing senator is an uncle to Davido, a well-known Nigerian singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ademola Adeleke The Independent National Electoral Commission on Sunday morning declared Ademola Adeleke the Governor-Elect of Osun State after scoring a majority of votes cast in the governorship election in the state. The victory came for Adeleke nearly four years after failing by a small margin in his bid to govern Osun State. On Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}