The remains of the late Senator Isiaka Adetunji Adeleke was committed to mother earth on Monday amid tears and tension in his country home at the Aisu area of Ede in Osun State.
Family members and other sympathisers could not be consoled as they wept profusely on sighting the lifeless body of the first civilian governor of the state.
The late politician, after Islamic prayers by clerics, was buried around 12noon amid palpable tension among his kinsmen and political followers.
The indigenes of Ede could not hold back tears as they mourned the demise of Adeleke described by many as a benefactor to the town.
Meanwhile, tension has continued to rise in Ede and the state capital, Osogbo, following the alleged suspicious circumstances surrounding the lawmaker’s death.
Most of the late senator’s supporters in the towns claimed that Adeleke was poisoned at a social function he attended at Iwo town, few hours before his death.
Other sympathisers attributed his death to some spiritual forces opposed to his ambition to succeed Governor Rauf Aregbesola after next year’s governorship election in the state.
Adeleke’s remains were buried after an autospy was carried out on his corpse at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology on Sunday evening.
Dignitaries, including the Governor of Ekiti State, Mr Ayodele Fayose; Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu and Ogun state Governor, Ibikunle Amosun were in attendance.
But the burial was almost disrupted as angry mourners suspected to be indigenes of Ede threw stones at a commissioner-nominee in the cabinet of Governor Aregbesola, Hidiat Babalola.
In the ensuing melee, Governors Fayose, Akeredolu, Amosun and former Osun State governor , Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, escaped being injured as the rampaging mourners collapsed the event canopy on them.
The prompt intervention of the governors’ security aides prevented the dignitaries from being injured while the protesters chased Mrs. Babalola away from the venue of the funeral.
