- Idiat Babalola has explained why she was attacked at the country home of Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke
- Babalola said her attackers picked on her simply over unfounded rumors that she wants to be deputy governor in 2018
- She is an aide to Governor Rauf Aregbesola
An aide to Governor Rauf Aregbesola, Idiat Babalola has explained why she was attacked at the country home of Late Senator Isiaka Adeleke during his burial.
Photos of Babalola being shielded from angry youths by Ogun state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun emerged on Monday, April 24 during the event.
The youths in the area accused the governor's aide of plotting to emerge as the deputy governor of the state in 2018, to scuttle the governorship ambition of the late senator.
Governor Amosun shielding Babalola from the rampaging youths at the burial ceremony
NAIJ.com also gathered that there have been rumours among the locals suggesting that the late senator was killed by agents of the Osun state government.
In an interview with Premium Times on Tuesday, April 25, Babalola said her attackers picked on her simply over unfounded rumors that she wants to be deputy governor after the current tenure of the governor.
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She said her attackers could not have been acting over anything against Governor Aregbesola but simply on the local politics of Ede, where she also hails from just as the late Adeleke.
Her words: “I am a proud daughter of Ede and Uncle Isiaka has been a mentor and we never had any disagreement till the news of his death was broken to me while in Lagos on Sundaymorning. I was heartbroken and immediately cut all my other engagements and came down to Ede from Lagos.
“We worked together with Uncle for the re-election of Governor Aregbesola in 2014 and for his own election into the Senate in 2015.
“Those who masterminded the attacks on me are people with poor understanding of the relationship between us and who act based on their own political permutations only.”
Governor Amosun warning one of the youths to stay off Babalola as the melee ensued
She explained that she was at the burial in company of her father, S. Babalola, a prominent industrialist who is also a friend to the late father of Mr. Adeleke.
She said it was unfortunate that the unruly behaviour of the miscreants robbed a prominent son of Ede, the state burial that he deserved and which state government planned for him.
“That cannot be the best way to honour he memory of Uncle Adeleke. Senator Adeleke was a man of his people; a lover of peace and a political associate of Governor Aregbesola. Senator Adeleke could not have countenanced such misconduct in his lifetime,” she added.
Babalola expressed appreciation to the Governor Amosun, whom she said dropped the honour of being a governor to practically engage the hoodlums not to carry out their dastardly plots.
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Meanwhile, the son of the late senator, Tunji Adeleke has claimed his father was killed because of power, position and money which some his political enemies wanted at all cost.
Tunji who made the claim via one of his social media accounts, added that his dad was not sick before he died and that he was he was killed because of his ambition to become the next governor of his state.
Popularly called 'Serubawon', Late Adeleke was reportedly oiling his political machine to contest the Osun state gubernatorial election in 2018 before his death.
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