Adebayo Adelabu with the sobriquet Penkelemensi or Bayseone is not a rookie in the scheme of things politically in Oyo state. His current role as the Minister of Power has further placed him in the cynosure of all eyes as President Tinubu feels he will bring his cerebral prowess as an accountant into play handling the most critical sectors of the nation’s economy which Nigeria has suffered its epileptic nature for decades. He didn’t just come into prominence he is from a family that held sway in Oyo and defunct Western Region Politics which was his grandfather Adegoke Adelabu who originally has the sobriquet Penkelemesi who was a young seasoned politician who galvanized political might during the western region and carved a niche for himself.
Adelabu former deputy governor at the Central Bank of Nigeria before his resignation to contest for Oyo Guber twice is indeed a man favoured by his creator. Last weekend after leaving his hometown in Ibadan enroute to Abuja with his friends and staff on a chartered flight it was said that the plane conveying him back to Abuja crash landed but with no casualty recorded. While his supporters were jubilating that their son left the air mishap scene unscratched some said it’s the good things he has been indulging in that saved him. Some also said his grandfather died in a road accident at the twilight of his career as a politician of reckon but his supporters prayed that that wouldn’t be his case that he would live long and no evil would befall him.
Sources say after the issues he was just thanking God for protecting him and not making the mishap take his life. Despite the issue; Adelabu came to Lagos to join the Governor of Lagos; Mr Babajide Sanwo-olu and the Governor of Ekiti State; Mr Biodun Oyebanji to commission the 717 stretch Oyingbo Bridge in Lagos. Another source said Adelabu is planning to organize a prayer session and a thanksgiving ceremony to thank his Creator for not cutting his life short and not letting what happened to his grandfather happen to him.
