Adeleke won the supplementary election on the platform of the PDP to close up the vacant Osun West Senatorial District Seat created by the demise of his elder brother Sen. Isiaka Adeleke in 2017.
The court is asked to decide whether with the combined provisions of Sect. 65 of the Constitution and judgment of the FCT High Court delivered April 2, Adeleke still qualified to occupy the seat.Justice Othman Musa of the FCT High Court had in that judgment declared the Secondary School Certificate presented by Adeleke to INEC as fake.
They also prayed the court to decide whether the combined effect of the above provisions with the judgment, the first defendant could still draw salaries from the Senate. The plaintiffs further urged the court to declare that the continuous representation of the first defendant in the Senate as the senator representing Osun West Senatorial District as illegal, null and void.