The
late Senator Isiaka Adeleke has been accused of patronizing a quack
doctor who allegedly engineered his death by his careless treatment.
Emerging reports have it that Osun West lawmaker, Isiaka Adeleke
might have been alive today if not for the unprofessional conduct of his
doctor named Alfred Aderibigbe based in Osun state.
Police investigations are currently being directed at the medical
personnel for useful leads to the death of the All Progressives Congress
chieftain.
Mr. 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 practitioner has been accused of practicing medicine
illegally and injecting Mr. 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 Oshogbo, where he is being investigated.
Preliminary report of an autopsy ordered by the Osun State
government and Mr. 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 Mr. Adeleke and had been treating him for a long time. Phone
call records obtained from Aderibigbe's phone confirmed that Mr. 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 today told SaharaReporters that the deadly
dose of analgesics was given to Senator Adeleke a few hours before his
death, they said they could not confirm if he received any medication to
cope with the leg pains as he underwent a series of political and
social events he attended on Saturday.
On Sunday morning, he started complaining that he was feeling
unwell and sent for Mr. Aderibigbe to come and give him painkillers
intravenously, a double dose was administered on the Senator as he
claimed that he forgot his pain medicine in Lagos.
Shortly after, he had a heart attack and was later taken to Biket
Hospital, a private hospital in Oshogbo, where he was pronounced dead.
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