There is confusion in Ede, the home town of Isiaka Adeleke, as his lifeless body was returned to the Ladoke Akontola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo, for an autopsy.
This is against the expectation of sympathisers who waited as the body was earlier being prepared for burial, according to Islamic rites.
The autopsy option, sources say, is being taken following rumours that he was poisoned at a political meeting on Saturday.
Mr. Adeleke was preparing to run for the Osun governorship election in 2018 before his death on Sunday morning.
He was earlier brought home from the hospital amidst wailing and weeping by supporters and family members.
The development has resulted in a traffic gridlock across the streets of the town. Supporters are also lighting bonfires across the town to register their anger, raising fears of possible violence.
The first civilian governor of Osun and serving senator, Isiaka Adeleke, is dead.
He died in the early hours of Sunday at a private hospital in Osogbo after succumbing to a protracted ailment.
Adeleke was aged 62.
A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at the residence of the former governor in Ede reports that the atmosphere was tense as his corpse was brought in at about 1:10 p.m, preparatory to the Islamic burial rites at 4:p.m.
A huge crowd of sympathisers and family members were seen weeping uncontrollably on sighting the corpse of the late flamboyant politician and socialite.
A two-term senator, Adeleke had won the Osun West senatorial seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in 2007.
He, however, defected from the PDP in the build up to the 2015 general elections and had won again on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC). (NAN)
