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Iyiola Omisore

Iyiola Ajani "Otunba" Omisore (born 15 September 1957) is a Nigerian businessman and politician, who was Deputy Governor of Osun State from 1999–2003. Subsequently, he served as a member of the Nigerian Senate for Osun East from 2003 to 2009.

Iyiola Omisore was born 15 September 1957, into a royal family in Ile-Ife, where he also grew up. He is the son of Oba David Olajide Omisore and the grandson of Lowa Omisore, both of Ayepe, Olode.

Iyiola is also the grandson of the Late Olufewara Kabiyesi Oba Titus Adetoba of the Oseganderuku ruling house in Ifewara where his mother, Princess Emila Adejola ruled as Regent until her death in 2006. In August 2006, his father was crowned as the first Olu of Olode Town in Ife South Local Government Area of Osun State. 

He had his primary education at the SS Peter and Paul Roman Catholic School in Ile-Ife and his secondary education at St. John Grammar School Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria from 1972 – 1977.

He later attended Federal Polytechnic Owo in Ondo State Nigeria. He then sat for and passed his Full Technological Certificate Examinations at the Technology College, Reading UK, and obtained a diploma Certificate in Electrical/Electronics Engineering.

Omisore holds two engineering degrees and a postgraduate certificate from Brunel University Uxbridge, as well as a PhD in Infrastructure Finance from the International School of Management, Paris, France. He is currently undergoing his DBA programme at the same institution. A Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, England and Wales, he has undergone several courses in different high-profile institutions including Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA; ABS Academy, Athens, Greece; University of Carolina; West London College; Harvard University and the Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklungg GmbH, Germany.

In January 2013, he completed and was awarded a Doctorate Degree by the International School of Management in Paris.

He started his early professional life 1983 with Drake and Gordham while in the UK, rising to top management positions. Two years later, he was brought back to Nigeria by its Nigerian division, Drake and Scull (Nig) Ltd where he honed his project management skills. He later established his own engineering firms; Mechelec Consultants –an Engineering Consultancy outfit and Chrisore Eng Ltd – an Electrical Engineering firm.

While with Drake and Scull Nig. Ltd, he supervised the construction of 19 airfields including the Makurdi Air Force Base and other projects like the Sokoto and Makurdi Rice Mills, Taraku Oil Mill, Sokoto University Teaching Hospital, Onitsha Flour Mills, Bank of The North (Now Unity Bank) Building, World Bank Assisted Health Projects for Plateau, Benue and Nasarawa States and the Imiringi Rural Electrification project in Bayelsa State.

Omisore served as Deputy State Governor of Osun State from 1999 – 2003 under Governor Adebisi Akande.

Even though he was still on trial, he was elected to the Senate to represent Osun East constituency in April 2003 running on the platform of the PDP and served till the expiration of his term in 2007. He was reelected in 2007 and appointed to committees for Police Affairs, Housing, Culture & Tourism, Aviation and Appropriation. In May 2008, he was named a member of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Constitution Review (JCCR). In October 2008, Omisore was one of the Nigerian delegates to the 5th Consultative Assembly of Parliamentarians in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

He ran for Governor of Osun State on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) and he lost the 9 August 2014 guber election to Rauf Aregbesola who was the incumbent Governor. He contested for the governorship seat on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Osun gubernatorial election 2018 where he came third behind Senator Ademola Adeleke of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) and eventual winner, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He was conferred with the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Presidential Merit Award for Support and Contribution to the Development of the Society in 2007. Also, he was honoured with the Prime Award for Remarkable Contribution to the Growth of Engineering Profession and Society when the NSE was celebrating its Golden Jubilee in 2008. Personal Life

He lives in Abuja with his wife and children, where he now runs his business, Chrisore Engineering.

 

Adebisi Akande

Chief Abdukareem Adebisi Bamdele Akande ("Bisi Akande"; born 16 January 1939) was a governor of Osun State, Nigeria from 1999–2003, as a member of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party, and was the first interim Chairman of the All Progressives Congress.

Chief Adebisi Akande was born in Ila Orangun on 16 January 1939 in what is now the Osun Central Senatorial district. He was elected on the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) platform. Akande was described as the nephew of Chief Bola Ige

Adebisi Akande was elected governor of Osun State in April 1999, running for the Alliance for Democracy (AD) party, which had recently formed as a political arm of the Yoruba socio-cultural organization Afenifere. He succeeded Col. Theophilus Bamigboye, who had been named as the military administrator of the State in August 1998, and who handed over power on 29 May 1999. On 31 May 1999 Adebisa Akande inaugurated the second Assembly in Osun State.

In January 2000, the Osun State government sacked 143 staff of the Osun State Broadcasting Corporation, following the governor’s earlier vow to trim the state’s work force. Adebisi Akande dissolved the state Council of Obas and Chiefs in 2001, on the ground that it was too large. The dissolution may have been caused by a dispute between the then head of the royal council, the Ooni of Ile-Ife and Akande, in turn part of a face-off between Akande and the deputy governor, Iyiola Omisore.

A November 2001 appraisal of Osun State said that Adebisi Akande was battling an unfriendly work force, and the state was also troubled by long-standing violence between the Ife and Modakeke clans. However, Akande had implemented his party's programs for providing free education and free medical care, and had improved water supplies. A different appraisal, two months later, noting the governor had recently survived an impeachment attempt, said that rather than improving social services and generating employment, after two years in power Akande had implemented massive staff lay offs in the public service, and had caused virtual collapse of public infrastructure.

On 24 December 2001 Akande's supporter Bola Ige, the minister of justice, was murdered in his house in Ibadan. The newspaper This Day said that the murder could have been linked to the feud between Akande and the deputy governor Iyiola Omisore. The murder followed another murder the previous week of Osun State legislator Odunayo Olagbaju, who was bludgeoned to death outside his home. Olagbaju was a supporter of Omisore.

Adebisa Akande ran again for election in 2003, but was defeated by Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).

In late 2003, rival factions of the AD held separate conventions. In the Lagos convention, Adebisi Akande was elected as AD chairman. In January 2006, the convoy of AD leaders who supported Chief Mojisoluwa Akinfenwa faction instead of Chief Adebisi Akande as the party's national chairman was attacked by thugs in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State. In a February 2006 interview, former Senator Moji Akinfenwa verbally attacked Akande and denied that he was head of the AD. Discussing Akande's feud with his deputy, Iyiola Omisore, he acknowledged that most of the funding for Akande’s governorship campaign was donated by Omisore, but said it was a serious error to have accepted him as a running mate.

In June 2005, Akande attended an International Conference on Sustainable Democracy in Nigeria held at the Imperial College, London. In October 2005, Akande visited the US to meet with AD supporters in the Nigerian diaspora.

Speaking in July 2006, Akande attacked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, which he implied was not acting impartially. He defended the AD, which he said was stronger even than it had been in 1999. He called for a more decentralized, federal form of government.

Speaking in February 2009, Akande said the only solution to hostage-taking in the Niger Delta area was to give youths employment opportunities, and to involve them in decision making. He cautioned against a military solution, saying in the past the military had looted the nation's treasury and impoverished the people. Speaking in favour of democracy, he stated that when the AD governors accepted President Olusegun Obasanjo's request to avoid local council polls, they fell into a trap. Obasanjo was able to select delegates who helped him win the 2003 elections.

In October 2009, the Osun State Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Jelili Adesiyan, blamed the poor performance of Osun State students in examinations on the administration of Chief Adebisi Akande, whom he asserted had neglected the schools.

In September 2006, the 'Bisi Akande faction merged with other opposition parties to form the Action Congress Party, which later changed their name to the Action Congress of Nigeria.

In February 2013 the party announced plans to merge with the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), and a faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to form the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Rauf Aregbesola

Aregbesola is a Muslim born into a family of both Muslims and Christians. He had his primary and secondary education in Ondo State. He later attended The Polytechnic, Ibadan, where he studied Mechanical Engineering and graduated in 1980.

Aregbesola's interest and involvement in politics dates back to his undergraduate days when he was Speaker of the Students' Parliament (1977–1978) at The Polytechnic, Ibadan, and the President of the Black Nationalist Movement (1978–1980). He was also an active supporter of other progressive students' movements nationwide, which earned him, for instance, a life membership in the National Association of Technological Students. In June 1990, he became an elected delegate to the Social Democratic Party Inaugural Local Government Area Congress. In July of the same year, he was also a delegate to its first National Convention in Abuja. Aregbesola, as a pro-democracy and human rights activist, was a major participant in the demilitarization and pro-democracy struggles of the 1990s in Nigeria.

Upon the return of the country to democratic rule in 1999,^[3] he was a ranking member of the Alliance for Democracy, led by Senator Bola Tinubu, who would go on to become governor of Lagos State in the same year. Aregbesola was Director of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Campaign Organisation (BATCO), who drove the electoral victory of Bola Tinubu in 1999, and he performed a similar feat with the platform of the Independent Campaign Group, with which he ensured the re-election of Tinubu for a second term in office.

Upon Tinubu's inauguration as governor, Aregbesola was appointed the Commissioner of Works and Infrastructure, which included supervision of the Public Works Corporation and the State Electricity Board. He not only oversaw a large investment in road infrastructure in the state, but also birthed the master plan that has served as a basis for the infrastructural development and expansion observed in Lagos even after Tinubu's two terms in office.

Following Tinubu's tenure as governor of Lagos State, Aregbesola ran on the platform of the then Action Congress (AC) for the Governorship of Osun State in the April 2007 elections.

Aregbesola had to withstand several attempts by the incumbent state government to cut short his ambition, from the failed attempt to abort the launch of Oranmiyan, the campaign organisation of Aregbesola, which was fixed for Oshogbo Stadium until the state government deployed force to stop the event.

On 16 May 2005, a major financier of Aregbesola's campaign, Alhaji Sulaimon Hassan-Olajoku, was assassinated at Gbongan Junction after attending a series of political events to mobilise support of Aregbesola. Aregbesola also narrowly escaped assassination plots in Ilesha in 2005 and on Osogbo Oroki Day in 2006.

In addition, a petition led to the arrest and detention of Aregbesola for three weeks by men of the Lagos State Police Command until a High Court ruled in favour of him and awarded a penalty of N5m against the police for wrongful arrest and detention.

After incumbent Olagunsoye Oyinlola was declared the winner of the 14 April 2007 elections, Aregbesola immediately proceeded to the courts to overturn this outcome.

In May 2008, Aregbesola called over 100 witnesses and tendered 168 exhibits in his petition before the Election Petitions Tribunal, alleging violence and ballot box stuffing in the election. In an October 2008 interview, he described Oyinlola as "a bully who came from a reactionary military arm", stating that Oyinlola had done nothing for the people of Osun state. He also claimed that 12 people had died in the election violence.

In August 2009 the police arrested Aregbesola, apparently for involvement in the alleged forgery of a police report on the conduct of the elections. Later that month he sought bail so that he could perform the lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia. In August 2010 the police summoned him to make a statement about a 14 June 2007 bomb explosion near the ministry of water resources. Aregbesola denied any involvement, stating that he was in Abuja at the time. Having gone through the tribunal of first instance, an appeal and a retrial tribunal, the second appeal court, delivering judgment on 26 November 2010, declared Aregbesola governor and ordered that he be sworn in the next day. The Court was presided over by Justice Clara Bata Ogunbiyi, who was flanked by four other justices; Honourable Justices M.L. Garba, P.A. Galinge, Chima Centus Nweze, and A. Jauro. The court unanimously nullified the election results of the 10 local governments pleaded for by Aregbesola and set aside the judgement of a lower tribunal which had confirmed the election of Oyinlola, after the deductions of the cancelled votes had left Oyinlola with 172,880 votes and Aregbesola with 198,799, thereby returning Aregbesola as the duly elected governor of the state, three years after the elections.

The Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, offered his congratulations for the belated recognition of his election victory.

Oyinlola alleged that there was telephone contact between Justice Ayo Salami, head of the Nigerian Court of Appeal, and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftains prior to the decision and urged the Attorney General of the Federation "to exercise his power of public prosecution entrenched in Section 174 (1) and (2) of the 1999 Constitution by initiating legal action against MTN Nigeria Limited" after he petitioned the National Judicial Council. The Court rejected his application for Salami's call log.

In a reply to a memo submitted by Aregbesola to a Truth and Reconciliation committee he had set up to look into the alleged atrocities committed by the previous government, Oyinlola described Aregbesola's claims as lies.

In his first term as governor of the state, Argebesola outlined his goals for the state: banish poverty, banish hunger, banish unemployment, restore healthy living, promote functional education and enhance communal peace and progress. Aregbesola actively pursued all action points of this plan in his first four years in office. For instance, he introduced an initiative for the creation of 20,000 jobs for youths in his first 100 days, which he achieved through the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme (O-YES).

Other initiatives he introduced in his first term included the Osun School Infrastructure Development Project, which involved the construction of about 170 new schools, the Osun mid-regional market (O-HUB), the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agriculture Programme (O-REAP), the Osun Elementary School Feeding Programme (O-MEAL), Osun Tourism (O-TOURS), and the Osun Special Ambulance Scheme (O-AMBULANCE), along with investments in roads and bridges.

Aregbesola did these while championing the cause of equality among all religions to promote peace among communities. Aregbesola introduced Isese Day as a public holiday for traditional worshipers to celebrate like the Christians and Muslims in the state have always done, and also adopted the title of "Ogbeni" (Mister), while also branding the state's citizens as "Omoluabi".

In the 2014 election, the People's Democratic Party (PDP), which controlled the federal government, sought to win the governorship to secure a stronger base in the south-west for the general elections to be held in 2015. National forces were therefore deployed in a plot to intimidate voters and reduce votes, but despite several arrests of his key associates, Aregbesola defeated the PDP's candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari (right), then governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (centre) and his wife, Mrs. Sherifat Aregbesola (left) during the commissioning of Osogbo Government High School, Osogbo on September 1, 2016.

Upon re-election, Aregbesola consolidated his achievements in his first term. He introduced the Opon-Imo, an electronic tablet distributed for free to students in public schools in Osun. Aregbesola also began the commissioning of school infrastructure invested in by his government. In September 2016, President Muhammudu Buhari visited the state capital to commission one of the 3000-capacity schools, which have become a model emulated by other states. The governor also unveiled a plan to site an aircraft maintenance hub in Osun and completed five bridges in a state which did not have one before he was elected governor.

The federal government and other states sent delegations to Osun to study Aregbesola's implementation of the school feeding programme.

In June 2015, an Osun State Judge, Justice Oloyede Folahanmi, wrote a petition to the State House of Assembly requesting the impeachment of Aregbesola on claims of financial mismanagement, which had been a recurring allegation due to the large investments in several projects for the state by Aregbesola. After many delays, a panel was set up by the House to probe Aregbesola, and the Governor appeared before the panel, which later found him not guilty of the allegations raised by the judge.

In 2016, The National Judicial Council recommended Justice Oloyede for compulsory retirement after it found that the petition written by the judge "contained political statements, unsubstantiated allegations and accusations aimed at deriding, demeaning and undermining the State Government of Osun, the person and character of the Governor, his deputy and aides".

Moshood Adeoti

Born in Iwo, headquarters of Iwo Local Government Council Area of the state on February 27, 1953 into the family of the late Alhaji Abduwahab Adeoti of Olode’s Compound, Gidigbo Quarters, Iwo. He started his elementary school education at the District Council Primary School in 1959 and in 1963, he got transferred to Aipate Baptist Day School, all in Iwo, where he finished in 1964 with a Primary Six Leaving Certificate.

Despite pressure from few family members and some of his classmates in the elementary schools he attended to learn a vocation, as it was the practice in his days, the young Moshood stuck to his gun in his determination to further his education.

It was this that forced his father to accede to his request to obtain the entrance examination form of the Local Authority Secondary Modern School, Iwo. The young Moshood Adeoti passed the entrance examination and was admitted into the school in 1967 and completed the three-session programme in 1969 in flying colours.

Not satisfied with his level of education, in 1970, he proceeded the then elitist Baptist High School, also in Iwo, where he sat for and passed the West Africa School Certificate Examination in 1974.

It was at this stage that he tried his luck and went into farming by establishing his private business.

Having had a firm grip of his farming business, the young Adeoti decided once again to pursue his education career to the next level by seeking and securing admission into the University of Benin to study Business Administration in 1980 and in 1984, he sat and passed for his final examination and was awarded the Bachelors of Science degree in Business Administration.

Throughout his university days, Moshood Adeoti still spared time to come to Iwo on regular basis to see to the welfare of his workers working on his farm and also participate in the political activities of the council area.

For his one-year mandatory National Youth Service (NYSC) programme, he was deployed to Kaduna State and was finally posted to the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, where he served as Graduate Assistant.

At the ABU, he was offered immediate employment after his national service as a reward for his sterling performance and dedication to his duties. This he humbly rejected, as the urge to participate in political activities in Iwo and taking care of his thriving business took better part of him.

All his political efforts eventually paid off as he got elected as Councillor in Iwo Local Government Council in 1988, where he served till 1989.

He was appointed and served as Supervisor for Education from 1991 to 1993 before he was deployed to the Finance and Economic Department as Supervisor, where he served till he became the Secretary to the Local Government Council (SLG), a position he held till the third republic was truncated by the General Sanni Abacha-led military junta.

As a young man with business acumen, Alhaji Adeoti invested all his earnings from his farm produce in buying shares from blue chip companies, including multinationals and even served on the boards of some of them.

With the return of the the country to civil rule, Alhaji Moshood Olalekan Adeoti was appointed the Chairman of Iwo Local Government Council by the Chief Adebisi Akande-led administration in June 2002. This position he held till the government was ousted in a controversial poll in May 2003.

After holding several other political positions both in government and party levels like the State Chairman of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as a precursor of APC, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti was appointed as the Secretary to the State Government of Osun in January, 2011 by the incumbent Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration, a position he is holding till date.

POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:

1. General Secretary, Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) Youth Wing, Iwo Local Government – 1978 – 1983.

2. Administrative Secretary, United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP), Iwo Local Government – 1997 – 1998.

3. State Delegate for Alliance for Democracy (AD) 1998 – 2003.

4. Organising Secretary, AD, Iwo Local Government – 2001 – 2002.

5. State Chairman, Alliance for Democracy (AD) 2003 – 2006.

6. State Chairman, Action Congress (AC) 2006 – 2010.

7. State Chairman, Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Dec. 2010 – Jan. 2011.

Awards in his Kitty include:

1. Fellow, Institute of Corporate Administration of Nigeria – July, 2012

2. Astute Mobilizer, Forum for the Patriotic Members of APC – March, 2016

3. Distinguished Leader, the International Association of Lions Clubs, Ede Mopo Lions Club – March, 2016

4. Merit Award as Advocate of Democracy, Modern Progressives Awareness, State of Osun – May, 2014

5. Politician of the Year, Nigerian Union of Journalists, OSBC Chapel – December, 2015

6. Outstanding Alumnus, Osun State Students, UNIBEN Chapter – 2012

7. Award of Excellence (Distinguished Islamic Contributor), Arabic Teachers’ Association of Nigeria, Ibadan North East Chapter, Oyo State – December, 2016

8. Award of Excellence in Technological Development and Humanity by National Association of Academic Technologists, UNIOSUN Branch – May, 2017

9. Exemplary Leader, West African Youth Parliament – March, 2016

10. Patron, Omoluabi Progressive Association – November, 2013

11. Award of Excellence by Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineering Students – March, 2016

12. Patron, University of Benin Alumni Association, State of Osun Branch – November, 2013

13. Best Politician of the Year, Sherifat Support Group, Office of the First Lady, State of Osun – March, 2014

14. Meritorious Service Award by Government Technical College, Iwo – 2016

15. Award of Excellence by the Federation of Iwo Land Students Union (FILSU) – 2015

16. Award as Icon of Nation Building in Nigeria by African Students Union Parliament (ASUP) – 2018

17. Award as Political Icon by Odidere Academy – 2016

Moshood Adeoti

 

Moshood Adeoti, former secretary to Osun state government (SSG) who announced his withdrawal from the primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and ran his govervorship ambition under the Action Democratic Party in 2018. 

Fatai Akinade Akinbade

Alhaji Fatai Akinade Akinbade (born April 1955) is a Nigerian politician and the former Secretary to the State Government in Osun State. He was a contender to become the People's Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for governorship of Osun State in the April 2011 elections.

Fatai Akinade Akinbade was born in April 1955 in Ogbaagbaa, a town in Ola-Oluwa Local Government Area. He is an Owu prince, thus making him an Omoba of the Yoruba people. Fatai's father was a drummer, and he was trained to follow that trade. He studied at St. James Anglican Primary School, Ogbaagba (1964–1969), then at Catholic Commercial Secondary Modern School, Iwo (1970–1973). Between 1973 and 1974 he worked as a pharmaceutical salesman in Lagos, before returning to study at Catholic Technical College, Ile-Ife (1975–1978). He qualified as a Civil Engineer.

Akinbade was appointed a member of the board of Delta Steel Company in Aladja, Delta State, and was Chairman of the company's Finance and Multipurpose Committee. Akinbade joined the Osun State government, working for over sixteen years under three military administrators and then under the civilian governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola. In 2003 he was appointed Secretary to the state by Olagunsoye Oyinlola. In 2004 Fatai Akinbade was chosen as the leader of the Party in the Iwo Federal Constituency.

Akinbade announced his plan to run in the PDP primaries for state governor in February 2010. Eventually fourteen others announced their candidacy. In an interview in March 2010 he rejected the argument that it was the turn of Ife/Ijesha to present the next governor of the state. In June 2010 his bid was given public support by several traditional rulers in the Ife region of the state, including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade. However, Akinbade's bid was opposed by party leadership. They directed all the state council chairmen to back Senator Iyiola Omisore, whose election as Senator for Osun East had been annulled in October 2009. The April 2011 election did not take place. In November 2010 the Federal Appeal Court, Ibadan declared that the April 2007 election of Olagunsoye Oyinlola was invalid, and in his place declared that Rauf Aregbesola of the Action Congress of Nigeria was the winner. Aregbesola was to serve for the next four years.

Ademola Adeleke



Ademola Adeleke is a Nigerian politician, He was a Senator representing Osun-west senatorial district until June 2019. He is from the Adeleke family of Ede in Osun State.

In the 2018 governorship election in Osun State, Adeleke contested against Gboyega Oyetola of the All Progressive Congress who won the election. On 2 April 2019, A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja invalidated his nomination as the governorship candidate of PDP in the September 22nd 2018 Governorship election.

Adeleke was born Nurudeen Ademola Adeleke to the family of Ayoola Adeleke - a Muslim father and Nnena Esther Adeleke - an Igbo Christian mother on May 13, 1960 in Enugu. His father was Late Senator Raji Ayoola Adeleke the Balogun of Ede land in Osun State, a politician, second republic Senator and political leader of the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) working alongside the premier of Western Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

Senator Adeleke commenced his primary education at Methodist Primary School, Surulere Lagos then relocated to Old Oyo State and attended Nawarudeen Primary School, Ikire. He progressed to The Seventh Day Adventist Secondary School, Ede also in the then Old Oyo State and later moved to Muslim Grammar School Ede. However, he did not finish his education at Muslim Grammar School as he later left Nigeria to study abroad with his two other brothers on a scholarship. He started higher studies at Jacksonville State University, Alabama in the United States where he was majoring in Criminal Justice and minoring in Political Science.

Ademola Adeleke is a businessman and administrator; he was the group executive director at his brother's company, Pacific Holdings Limited from 2001 to 2016. Prior to joining Pacific Holdings Limited, Ademola had worked with Quicksilver Courier Company in Atlanta, Georgia, US, as a service contractor in 1985–1989. He progressed to Origin International LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, US, a flavours and fragrance manufacturing company as vice president from 1990 to 1994.

Senator Ademola Adeleke is a community member and philanthropist. Adeleke started his political career in 2001 alongside his late brother Senator Isiaka Adeleke who died in April 2017. He contested at the Osun west 2017 by-election after the death of his brother, emerging as the winner under the People's Democratic Party.

Ademola was a member under the All Progressives Congress until he decamped to the People's Democratic Party