The Senator representing Osun West in the upper legislative chamber, Isiaka Adeleke, is dead.

He passed on in the early hours of Sunday, April 23, 2017.

Pulse has just been told that the Senator attended an event in Iwo, Osun State, on the eve of his death and showed little or no signs of a failing health.

“He came back from a function on Saturday, had slight stomach ache. Was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead this morning”, a source in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, told

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Adeleke suffered a heart attack at the Bikets hospital in Osogbo where he was on bed rest, according to latest information at our disposal.

62-year-old Adeleke has been in the corridors of power in Nigeria for as long as anyone can remember.

He was the first executive Governor of Osun State in the early ‘90s.

Adeleke was elected into the Nigerian senate on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2007.

He was a PDP Senator between 2007 and 2011.

He defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) before the 2015 general election.

He was re-elected into the senate in 2015.

The late Senator is an uncle of pop sensation, Davido.