Joseph Gbadamosi Adegoke Adelabu false name Adelabu Penkelemesi was a giant in the political field of Ibadan and the then Western Locale before the freedom of Nigeria in 1960.
He was brought into the world in Oke-Oluokun, Ibadan, on September 3, 1915 to Mr. Sanusi Ashiyanbi Adelabu and Mrs. Awujola Adelabu. At the young age of five, Adegoke Adelabu lost his mom and afterward lived with his fatherly auntie. Adegoke Adelabu went to St. David’s C.M.S School in Kudeti, Ibadan from 1925 to 1929; CMS Focal School, Mapo, Ibadan in 1930 and Government School, where he was a head kid, from 1931 to 1936.
In 1936, Adegoke won a U.A.C grant to concentrate on trade in Yaba Higher School however ultimately left the school a half year after the fact to fill in as a colleague to the UAC Ibadan locale chief. In the wake of working with UAC for at some point, he was elevated to an Associate Director because of his hard and astute work. Nonetheless, he left UAC in 1937 to begin his very own business which was fruitless. He later took up a common help work, then got back to UAC in 1945 just to pass on after a brief period to begin a material exchanging business which was fruitful.
In the wake of getting little abundance from his material business, Adegoke Adelabu engaged in governmental issues. The beginning stage of his political vocation was followed to the period when Ibadan genealogy bosses (Mogajis) rose against Salami Agbaje, the then Otun Balogun of Ibadan, from turning into the Olubadan of Ibadan. In 1951, during the neighborhood decisions, Adelabu and a few other political components shaped another party considered the Ibadan Public’s Involved with challenge the generally settled Ibadan Moderate Association and luckily for Adelabu, the new party won every one of the six seats toward the Western Local Gathering.
In any case, the Ibadan Public’s Party bankrupt separated after a casual partnership with NCNC was proposed by Adelabu. Adegoke Adelabu remained with NCNC and turned into the secretary of the party’s Western Territory Working Advisory group. In 1954, Adelabu turned into the administrator of Ibadan Locale Committee. Likewise, in the Government appointment of 1954, Adegoke Adelabu won a seat to the Place of Delegates and later turned into the Principal Public VP of NCNC and named Clergyman of Social Administrations. He held this post alongside his chairmanship of the Ibadan area gathering.
He later left the two situations after charges of defilement by the resistance, Activity Gathering.
In 1956, Adelabu ran for a seat in the territorial gathering as the head of NCNC in the Western District yet his party lost greater part seats to Activity Gathering subsequently making Adelabu the head of resistance in the Western Place of Gathering.
Adegoke Adelabu false name Adelabu Penkelemesi was areas of strength for a, pioneer and had his ground, a firm ground, in Ibadan. He was found of utilizing the expression “Exceptional wreck” at whatever point he address general society. The non-educated section of his devotees who had never known about the words curious and wreck and never knew its significance Yorubanized the expression into “Penkelemesi” and afterward added it to his name-Adegoke Adelabu Penkelemesi. Individuals so much adored Adelabu. He was for sure a ‘man of individuals’. OldNaija accumulated that when he turned into the Clergyman of Work, he was given an authority limousine vehicle which he headed to Ibadan to show his companions and devotees and pronounced that the vehicle had a place with them, not him. Additionally, when Adelabu was given an authority home in Ikoyi, the most stunning piece of Lagos occupied generally by the English and French, he called drummers from his old neighborhood to commend the achievement which the English and French occupants viewed as upsetting. Adegoke Adelabu just said, “In the event that they could do without commotion and drumming, they are allowed to return to their own country.” Adegoke Adelabu conceded being a self seeker in a book he wrote in 1952 named ‘Africa In Enthusiasm: Being a handbook of opportunity for Nigerian patriots’.
Adegoke Adelabu and Obafemi Awolowo.
On Walk 25, 1958, at 43 years old, Adegoke Adelabu met his less than ideal demise in a deadly fender bender on the Lagos-Ibadan freeway. His demise ignited dissent and tumult in Ibadan as a considerable lot of his allies guaranteed he was killed by his rivals with juju. A few properties were obliterated and individuals likewise lost their lives. The police captured more than 500 people of whom 102 was accused of homicide and others released and some, imprisoned. It was for sure a major misfortune, a “unconventional miss” for individuals of Ibadan.
