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While addressing a press conference on Sunday in Ede, the immediate younger brother of the deceased, Deji Adeleke, alleged that the outcome of the inquest was predetermined.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Aregbesola had, on May 2, signed an executive order setting up a coroner inquest into the senator’s death.
The order was according to the Coroner Law Cap 32 Vol I Law of Osun, 2002.
The family, however, rejected the coroner inquest in its entirety.
Deji Adeleke said, “The family hereby denounce in its entirety the ill-advised and self-serving coroner inquest ordered by the Osun State Government, purportedly set up to determine the cause of death of our dearly beloved Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke.
“We condemn, in strictest terms, the continuous politicisation attempts by the state of this great loss to our family, particularly the ordering of this inquest at a time we are still coming to terms with the harsh reality of his sudden departure and the pain and grief therefrom.
“We have been reliably informed by credible sources that the outcome of the kangaroo inquest is already predetermined by the state.
“It is also designed to serve its own interest with distorted facts and misinformation, which will clearly not be in the interest of the good people of Osun in general and the Adeleke family in particular.”
NAN recalls that the Adeleke family had, at a press conference on April 26, said the autopsy result conducted on the deceased was yet to be out.
The late senator, who was buried on April 24, represented Osun West Senatorial District on the platform of the APC.
Adeleke, who died at the age of 62, was also the first civilian governor of Osun between January 1992 and November 1993 on the platform of defunct Social Democratic Party.
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Adeleke’s family rejects coroner inquest ordered by Aregbesola
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