In lieu of his clinched victory at the Osun State Gubernatorial polls, Senator Ademola Adeleke has finally received his certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The certificate had been presented to him in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
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Adeleke who is the running mate candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP had been announced as the winner of the election on Sunday.
He had also emerged the winner of the Osun governorship election with 403,371 votes.
Adeleke polled the highest vote to beat his major contender, Governor Gboyega Oyetola who polled 375,027, and Action Democratic Party (ADP) Kehinde Atanda as the second runner-up.
In another report, Senator Ademola Adeleke has declared that contrary to speculations, he did not work with Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, during the just concluded gubernatorial election in the state.
In a pre-recorded interview that aired on Monday night on Channels Television’s Politics Today which was monitored by Africa Today News, New York, Adeleke said, ‘I did not work with Aregbesola, I do not even talk to him’.
Nonetheless, Adeleke stated he has been in talks with a few associates of the minister, including Kolapo Alimi who used to be a commissioner when Aregbesola was at the helm of affairs in Osun, but eventually defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
‘During the tribunal, Alimi was one of the lawyers who represented Oyetola then, so anytime I see them in the court, because I am a civilised person, I will go to them and greet them and say how are you, how are you doing.
‘It was later that he apologised and he told me he has been thinking ‘why is Senator Adeleke greeting me? We are trying to mess him up and he is still greeting me’.
‘I believe Oyetola and Aregbesola fell out and Alimi came to me and said he has watched me and that he wants to join our party and we said come on in.’