Nurse denies giving Adeleke drug overdose

Mr Alfred Aderibigbe, the nurse who treated Senator Isiaka
Adeleke before he died, on Thursday in Osogbo told a
coroner inquest that he never administered a drug
overdose on the late politician as was reported.
Aderibigbe, while giving evidence before the coroner, Chief
Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara, said all the drugs he
administered on the late first civilian governor of Osun
were in normal dosage.
He also told the coroner that he had been treating the late
senator in the last 15 years, adding that the drugs he
administered on Adeleke the day he died were those the
late politician gave to him.
Aderibigbe said: “The senator gave me his drugs which he
brought from Lagos to keep on the evening of Monday,
April 17, with the understanding that when he wants to take
them, he will call me to bring them.
“On Sunday, April 23, at about 4 am, I was, however,
woken up by two men from the senator who banged on my
gate and later informed me that the senator had been
calling my phone and that I was not picking my calls.
“They said the senator needed me to come and treat him
and that I should bring his drugs along. I later went inside
to get them and also found the calls I missed on my phone.
“I called the senator but his friend, one Dipo Fagborode,
picked his call. As he was explaining what was going on,
the senator himself collected the phone and asked me to
come quickly that he was having serious knee pains.
“When I got to the senator’s house, he asked for his drugs
and gave me his prescription which contained the dose I
was to administer on him.
“The drugs which the senator kept with me that were to be
administered on him were Analgin injection, Diazepam
injection, photroine injection and hydrocortisone.
“But the senator said I should not give him hydrocortisone
because when he took it in Lagos, he had headache and
was also vomiting.

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