The aspiration to run for the Osun governorship election has destroyed Osun’s Adeleke family.
The members of the family – Senator Ademola Adeleke and Dele Adeleke – have been screened and cleared as aspirants for the Osun governorship election under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), INFOXCLUSIVE reports.
The two family members were part of the six governorship aspirants for the July 16 governorship election in Osun State cleared by Mohammed Adoke, the chairman of the party’s screening council.
However, there has been persistent hot conflict inside the family over the desire of Dele, who filled in as Ademola’s agent at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Osun during the 2018 poll.
Dele’s aspiration was rumoured until he got expression and nomination form worth N21 million in December to formally join the Osun governorship race.
There has been open showdowns and verbal conflict between a member from the family, David Adeleke (Davido) and his cousin, Dele recently.
Music superstar, Davido took to his verified Twitter handle on Tuesday to caution people of Osun to be careful about Dele, saying, “Intellectual that has not succeeded in building one single thing in his life on his own. This life ehn!! Osun beware of FAKES! Dele.”
His uncle – Ademola reacted saying: “Don’t worry nephew God got us #IMOLEDE #OSUN2022.”
Again on Wednesday, Davido blamed his cousin for sponsoring an article about him and referenced the death of his mom which the artist considers to be offensive and further threatened to uncover his co-family member, Dele, to the Osun public.
In his reaction, Dele said Osun deserves the best. He unveiled that he has been getting death dangers from Davido’s fans since the open confrontation on Tuesday.
In his tweets on Wednesday, Dele said, “You are the king of social media & you know people take it upon themselves to write whatever they believe will give them clout. So many of your fans came to my SM handles to threaten me and some even asked me to go and die. Did you send them to threaten my life?.
“I seriously doubt it and I do not believe you will do such a thing. So, irrespective of politics, please note that I am not that kind of person; I have maintained decorum in the face of provocation and I will continue to do so.
“I respect your decision and choice to support Uncle Demola and that is the beauty of democracy. It is possible we can all make our individual choices without rancour and bitterness. We can all follow different paths and still live as one big, happy family.”
The crisis has kept on producing responses via social media.
In the mean time, the PDP has planned the governorship primary election for March 7.