Adeleke, his GCE-holder running mate now have vision other than dancing for Osun

Osun PDP’s guber candidate Ademola Adeleke has picked a running mate he said they have a lot in common. On a number of levels, he’s right.

Both are in their early 60s: Adeleke 61, his man Friday, 62, according to INEC’s screening details published on Tuesday.

Adeleke in his first attempt in 2018 presented a US criminal justice diploma he didn’t complete, and a WAEC certificate that only boasted of F9 in English and absent in other subjects.

Adewusi, a former Ife East LGA chairman also has only a GCE certificate, and he’s qualified—even as a farmer that he is. Moreover, he is making no bones about all this.

But his boss tried to be smarter with his own documentation in 2018. And it nearly backfired after Adeleke took his first stab at the Osun governorship.

With nothing but a pair of right feet powering a manifesto themed with  shape-shifting dance steps to which he treated his audience during campaigns, the Osun West former senator gave the ruling APC a tough time at the polls. He was not that qualified to participate in the election, though. It was the allegation of certificate skullduggery that scared the skill out of his feet, and he beat it fast.

Adeleke returned last year, and now claims something higher than Adewusi’s:  a degree in criminal justice at the Atlanta Metropolitan State College he got in 2021.

Both, however, share a vision. “We share a common goal which is to rescue the State from bad governance and set us on the path to recovery,” he tweeted recently.

This is far removed from his vision in 2018. Then he promised he would dance from the centre of Osogbo to the state house on the edge of the capital city if he won.