OSUN GOVERNOR ADEMOLA ADELEKE RESIGNS FROM PDP AMID NATIONAL LEADERSHIP CRISIS
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By Aishat Momoh. O.
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing the deepening crisis within the party’s national leadership.
Adeleke’s resignation was contained in a letter dated November 4 and addressed to the chairman of Ward 2, Sagba Abogunde in Ede North LGA. The letter, released on Monday through his spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, stated that his exit from the PDP takes immediate effect.
“Due to the current crisis within the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my membership of the PDP with immediate effect,” the governor wrote, expressing gratitude to the party for backing his elections as senator and later as governor.
Adeleke did not disclose his next political destination.
His exit comes as the Osun PDP battles internal divisions over the governorship primary initially scheduled for December 2. The state chapter had announced that the primary would no longer hold, while the Kabiru Turaki-led national working committee insisted on proceeding as planned.
On Monday, the state PDP chairman, Sunday Bisi, warned that Adeleke might withdraw from seeking the party’s 2026 governorship ticket unless the crisis is resolved in line with Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) guidelines.
Adeleke becomes the latest governor to leave the PDP in 2025, following defections by Akwa Ibom’s Umo Eno, Delta’s Sheriff Oborevwori, Enugu’s Peter Mbah, and Bayelsa’s Douye Diri.
Although there had been earlier speculation that Adeleke might defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) or the African Democratic Congress (ADC), the governor repeatedly denied it.
Adeleke is expected to seek re-election on August 8, 2026 one of Nigeria’s off-cycle governorship contests.
The governor, who defeated then-incumbent Gboyega Oyetola in the 2022 election with 403,371 votes to 375,027, survived multiple legal challenges. The election tribunal initially sacked him over findings of over-voting, but the Court of Appeal reinstated him in March 2023, and the Supreme Court upheld his victory in May 2023.
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