Ademola Nurudeen Jackson Adeleke is a Nigerian politician and businessman who has been serving as the governor of Osun State since 2022.
17 Facts About Ademola Adeleke
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Ademola Adeleke served as the senator representing the Osun-West senatorial district from 2017 to 2019.
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Ademola Adeleke contested in the 2022 Osun State gubernatorial election under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party and defeated incumbent governor, Adegboyega Isiaka Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress, who defeated him in the 2018 Osun State gubernatorial election rerun.
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Ademola Adeleke started higher studies at Jacksonville State University, Alabama in the United States where he majored in criminal justice and with minor in political science.
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Ademola Adeleke is a businessman and administrator; he served as an executive director of Guinness Nigeria Plc from 1992 to 1999, where his co-directors included General Theophilus Danjuma; he was the group executive director at his brother's company, Pacific Holdings Limited from 2001 to 2016.
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Ademola Adeleke progressed to Origin International LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, US, a flavours and fragrance manufacturing company as vice president from 1990 to 1994.
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Ademola Adeleke started his political career in 2001 alongside his late brother Senator Isiaka Adeleke who died in April 2017.
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Ademola Adeleke contested at the Osun west 2017 by-election after the death of his brother, emerging as the winner under the Peoples Democratic Party.
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Ademola Adeleke was a member of the All Progressives Congress until he decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party in April 2017.
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On 23 July 2018, Ademola Adeleke emerged as the governorship candidate of PDP in Osun State after defeating Akin Ogunbiyi by seven votes.
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Ademola Adeleke was accused and charged to the Osogbo high court for forging his secondary school testimonial and WAEC result to cancel his governorship candidacy.
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The testimonial Ademola Adeleke submitted to INEC dated 20 July 1988, as its Heading Ede Muslim Grammar School, Osun State, as at that year Osun state was not in existence.
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Ademola 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.
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Ademola Adeleke protested the result describing the election as a "coup".
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In 2022, Ademola Adeleke contested in the gubernatorial election of 16 July under the PDP against incumbent governor Gboyega Oyetola.
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Ademola Adeleke defeated Gboyega Oyetola with 402,979 votes to 375,077 votes.
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Ademola Adeleke won in 17 local government areas, including Olorunda, Ede South, Orolu, Osogbo, Odo Otin, Ifelodun, Boluwaduro, Atakumosa, and Ila.