BREAKING: After Adeleke’s exit, PDP delegates, officers maintain Osun guber major election in Osogbo
Hours after Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke resigned from the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, some delegates and officers of the social gathering have converged in Osogbo for the PDP governorship major forward of the August 8, 2026 gubernatorial election within the state.
Many social gathering leaders and members stormed Adolak Occasions Centre, Osogbo, capital of Osun State on Tuesday morning and the first election is underway as on the time of this report below tight safety.
The social gathering’s chairman within the state, Sunday Bisi, had on Monday declared that the governorship major wouldn’t maintain as scheduled.
However, the factional nationwide management of the social gathering insisted that it will conduct its major election regardless of the exit of Governor Adeleke, who was stated to be the one aspirant that obtained nomination kind.
Bisi had knowledgeable chosen journalists on Monday that the suspension and counter-suspension of key nationwide officers, who play statutory roles in conducting congresses, primaries, and transmitting candidates’ names to the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) had thrown the method into confusion.
He additional acknowledged that as a result of disaster rocking the nationwide management of the PDP, Governor Adeleke would possibly now not be thinking about looking for the social gathering’s ticket for the 2026 Osun governorship election until an INEC-recognised decision is reached inside the stipulated timeline.
Hours later, a resignation letter signed by Governor Adeleke surfaced on-line, dated November 4, 2025, wherein he cited the social gathering’s nationwide management disaster as his purpose for quitting.
Nevertheless, the PDP nationwide secretariat, by its Nationwide Organising Secretary, Theophilus Shan, maintained in a letter dated December 1, 2025, that the first would proceed as deliberate on December 2, 2025.
The letter learn, “Sequel to the sooner discover of twenty eighth October, 2025 to the gubernatorial primaries and the profitable completion of congresses to elect ad-hoc delegates and Nationwide delegates in Osun State on the twenty fourth and twenty ninth of November, 2025, the Social gathering hereby reminds strategic stakeholders and most of the people that the primaries to elect the gubernatorial candidate will maintain on December 2nd, 2025 at Atlantis Multipurpose Corridor, Ring highway, Osogbo, Osun State, 10am.”
He famous that the Electoral Committee for the Main has been constituted and can oversee the conduct of the train accordingly.
The letter suggested, “The candidates cleared for the primaries are suggested to behave in accordance with the provisions of our social gathering’s structure and the within the curiosity of regulation and order, as any act of indiscipline will probably be severely punished.”
THE POINT reviews that officers and members of the PDP are presently holding the first which is predicted to supply a governorship candidate for the social gathering forward of the ballot.