Osun state governor, Ademola Adeleke has disclosed how he wanted to be a musician but his father discouraged him from chasing the career.
Governor Adeleke who is popularly called the ‘Dancing Governor’ due to his dancing skills in public, which made him popular on social media.
According to the governor, in an interview on Arise TV on Wednesday, December 2023 spoke of his obsession with entertainment and how his father stopped him from becoming an artist.
“Actually, I was supposed to be a musician right away. But my father, when we were growing up in the sixties, didn’t allow it
They didn’t believe that somebody should go and do music. They just wanted you to go to school. So he discouraged me. But I know that I have that talent. It’s the talent I passed on to my nephew and my son.
If you play music now, I don’t know how I would just start dancing. My body would just start moving without knowing it.
I got to America in 1981. The name of my school that time in Alabama was Jacksonville State University. It was in the countryside. At that time, the school was having their anniversary, a lot of activities were happening there. So I picked the dancing part. So, after the stages, we got to the finals.
So to cut the long story short, I won. I remember vividly, the president of our school was trying to pronounce my name – Ademola Adeleke – he called me Jackson. And at that time Michael Jackson was reigning. So that’s how I got the name Jackson,” he added.
