Alfred Aderibigbe, a medical assistant with a community health center in Ede, Osun State, has been arrested by the Police for allegedly causing the death of Mr. Isiaka Adeleke, a senator and former governor of the state, on Sunday.
The medical assistance has been accused of practicing medicine illegally and injecting Adeleke with an overdose of the medication that caused his death.
Aderibigbe was arrested on Tuesday and is currently detained at the State Investigation Bureau of the Nigeria Police in Osogbo, where he is being investigated.
Preliminary report of an autopsy ordered by the Osun State Government and Adeleke’s family showed that the senator died of drug overdose.
Aderibigbe reportedly gave him analgesics intravenously.
Family sources said Aderibigbe, who is addressed as “doctor,” was close to Adeleke and had been treating him for a long time.
Phone call records obtained from Aderibigbe’s phone confirmed that Adeleke called him on many occasions to wake him from sleep to administer some drugs on him after he complained of pain in his leg on Sunday morning.
A police source earlier said that the deadly dose of analgesics was given to Senator Adeleke a few hours before his death, but could not confirm if he received any medication to cope with the leg pains.
