These are positively not the very best of occasions for the embattled Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke because the Peoples Democratic Get together the place he not too long ago resigned from have damaged right into a faction.
The factional PDP within the state, on Tuesday, gathered at Adolak Occasion Centre and elected a chieftain of the occasion, Adebayo Adedamola, as its candidate for the August 8 gubernatorial election within the state hours after Adeleke introduced his resignation from the hitherto ruling occasion within the state.
Stakeholders concern that the possibilities of Adeleke clinching a second time period might need been dimed following the emergence of one other contender from a celebration the governor as soon as managed. Others argued that Governor Adeleke could discover it tough to break down all his buildings into the brand new occasion he’s presently looking for.
The Osun PDP efficiently carried out its governorship main on Tuesday and Adedamola, popularly referred to as Frayo, emerged because the occasion’s gubernatorial candidate.
The first, which was held at Adolak Corridor, Osogbo, noticed Adedamola rating 919 of the votes, as his opponent, Governor Ademola Adeleke, didn’t partake within the train, having made public his resignation from the occasion barely 24 hours earlier than the first.
The PDP electoral committee led by Humphrey Abba accredited 957 out of 990 delegates earlier than the train, out of which 20 void votes had been recorded.
Representatives of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, and a committee led by Humphrey Abba from the PDP nationwide headquarters had been current on the venue.
There was additionally a heavy safety presence, with operatives from the Division of State Safety, the police, and the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps stationed on the entrance and exit.
The chairman of the first committee introduced the graduation of proceedings at precisely 11:07 a.m., as delegates checked their names earlier than voting.
Earlier than voting commenced, the electoral committee of the occasion had disclosed that each Governor Ademola Adeleke and his co-aspirant, Adebayo Adedamola, appeared on the poll.
Explaining why Adeleke’s identify appeared on the poll regardless of resigning his membership of the occasion, the Secretary of the committee, Sunday Solarin informed the delegates that the timing was too late to impact any correction on the poll.
In keeping with him, the governor introduced his resignation late on Monday night time when the poll had been ready, and it was too late to begin making ready a contemporary poll.
“There are two aspirants vying for the PDP ticket, however one among them, Governor Ademola Adeleke, resigned from the occasion late on Monday, and we couldn’t amend the poll.
“So, as you put together to solid your vote, keep in mind that solely Adebayo Adedamola stays the PDP aspirant, as his opponent resigned from the occasion,” he added.
After the delegates had concluded voting, officers collated the poll. Saying the result, the chairman of the electoral committee, Abba disclosed that Adedamola, popularly referred to as Frayo, polled 919 votes to emerge because the occasion candidate for the reason that incumbent governor resigned from the occasion.
“Following the profitable voting, I’m happy to announce that 20 void votes had been recorded. We informed you earlier that one of many aspirants withdrew. The candidate that acquired the remaining votes is Adebayo Adedamola with 919 votes and stands elected and returned,” he mentioned.
THE POINT had reported that Adeleke, in his resignation letter, dated November 4, 2025, and addressed to PDP Ward 2 Chairman Sagba Abogunde of Ede North Native Authorities, mentioned: ”As a result of present disaster throughout the nationwide management of the Folks’s Democratic Get together (PDP), I hereby resign my membership of the PDP with quick impact.
“I thank the Folks’s Democratic Get together for the alternatives given to me for my elections as a Senator (Represented Osun West) and as Governor of Osun State beneath the Folks’s Democratic Get together.”
Addresing some chosen journalists on Monday, PDP management in Osun State mentioned Adeleke could not be inquisitive about searching for the occasion’s nomination for the 2026 governorship election.
Nevertheless, his resolution might change if the crises throughout the occasion are resolved, recognised by INEC, and concluded throughout the Fee’s timeline for the Osun ballot.
The occasion chairman, Sunday Bisi had introduced the cancellation of the Osun PDP governorship main slated for December 2 (Tuesday), citing crises within the nationwide management of the PDP.
Nevertheless, the PDP nationwide secretariat, by means of 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 Get together 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 street, 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 occasion’s structure and the within the curiosity of regulation and order, as any act of indiscipline might be severely punished.”
OSUN SPEAKER’ ACCUSES GOV MAKINDE OF STOKING CRISIS IN PDP AS ENTOURAGE ATTACKS INEC OFFICIALS
In the meantime, a couple of minutes after the outcome was introduced and the electoral committee left the venue, the Speaker of the Osun State Home of Meeting, Adewale Egbedun, led some lawmakers and their aides to the venue to disrupt the train, which was efficiently accomplished.
He was, nonetheless, concerned in a severe altercation with officers of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, who had been on the venue to observe the train.
A video obtained by THE POINT confirmed aides of the Meeting members assaulting INEC officers and different members of the occasion.
Egbedun arrived on the venue, Adolak Occasion Centre alongside together with his deputy, Hon. Akinyode Oyewusi and different lawmakers with their aides after the winner of the first had been declared to kick towards the train.
Within the video, Egbedun was seen pointing on the Public Relations Officer of Osun INEC, Musa Olurode who wore a blue native costume. After the Speaker’s gesture, the aide began beating Olurode.
Nevertheless, Oyewusi, apparently heard Olurode screaming that he was an INEC workers, ordered that the aides to stop the assault.
The video revealed the Speaker leaving the spot and coming into into the corridor the place he angrily shouted towards these on the venue that they lacked the suitable to carry a celebration main in Osun State.
Talking with newsmen on the venue of the PDP main, Egbedun warned Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde towards utilizing Osun State as a ladder for his presidential ambition.
Claiming that the first election delegates are PDP members from Oyo State, Egbedun mentioned, “I’m the Speaker of Osun, I’m a frontrunner in my state and within the PDP. We had been on the ground of the home, once we acquired calls that some folks had been right here (Adolak) all the way in which from Oyo State to come back, simply to have a vote that we name a drama.
“I’m a frontrunner of PDP and a bona fide member of the Get together, I used the PDP ticket to win my election in 2023. So it’s very unusual to see movies of individuals calling themselves PDP members. I might keep in mind that there was a message that there was going to be a Congress. We had been ready for them and we acquired one other message that the Congress has been postponed.”
He warned that “It is a message to Governor Seyi Makinde, if he’s determined to change into President come 2027, he ought to use one other state as a software not Osun State. We’re bona fide PDP members, we’ve 25 Home of Meeting members, 5 Rep members, and senators.
“For a governor from one other state to come back to our state to dictate to us, we received’t take that. It is a message to all people that we received’t take this anymore. They got here right here to do what I can name a drama and this would be the finish of it.”
He reiterated that “We don’t have any notifications in any respect from any workplace, I’m the Speaker, and a governor from one other state will come to dictate to us, we received’t take that. We could have a gathering and determine on what to do.”
In one other assault, a crew of males who recognized themselves as officers of Oyo Park Administration, had been confronted by the lawmakers’ entourage, assaulted and bundled again into an 18-seater-bus and brought to a Police Publish throughout the premises of the Osun State Home of Meeting Complicated.
On the police publish, the “arrested males” numbering about 14, denied collaborating within the main election train, saying they’d visited Adolak bar to wine earlier than “some boys” surrounded them and began beating them.
THE POINT witnessed a light drama on the police publish as a few of the aides of the lawmakers had been forcing some occasion accredited tags on the necks of the Oyo males amid rejections by the transport officers.
Regardless of bringing out their identification playing cards which revealed they had been Park Administration officers from Oyo State and claiming that they had been in Osogbo for a Zonal assembly of Transport Union, aides of the legislators insisted that they had been recruited from Oyo to impersonate Osun PDP members on the main.
GOV ADELEKE WILL JOIN ANOTHER PARTY BEFORE DEC 13 — ALIMI
In the meantime, the Osun State Commissioner for Info and Public Enlightenment, Kolapo Alimi, has mentioned Governor Adeleke will formally reveal the brand new political occasion he can be becoming a member of earlier than December 13, following his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Get together.
Talking on a radio political programme monitored by THE POINT in Osogbo, Alimi mentioned the resignation was the results of extended inner crises throughout the nationwide management of the PDP.
“The governor of Osun State and the Asiwaju of Ede has formally resigned his membership from the Peoples Democratic Get together. The governor has finished this and has written his resignation letter for fairly a very long time,” he mentioned.
Alimi urged residents to stay calm and proceed supporting the governor.
“It was lengthy overdue. We recognize the folks for his or her help, and we will solely urge the folks to proceed to help the governor.
“Instantly I see many individuals round me, I’ll all the time be pleased and be joyous,” he mentioned, citing a Yoruba adage that actually interprets to imply the persons are the governor’s protectors.
On the explanations for Adeleke’s exit, the commissioner highlighted the interior PDP disaster on the nationwide degree as one of many foremost elements.
He famous that the state of affairs was notably urgent with the governorship election approaching and the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee nomination window closing.
“The governor is pleased with the response up to now, and all people understands that had it not been the very fact of the disaster or division on the nationwide degree, which can play a really essential function within the nomination of the governor, the governor wouldn’t have defected.
“It’s not even concerning the situation of defection; it’s about going through actuality as our personal election is developing in August, however the INEC window for nomination is closing by December 15, in order that’s why the governor has to resign,” Alimi mentioned.
Addressing hypothesis that the opposition All Progressives Congress welcomed Adeleke’s resignation, Alimi described the notion as false.
“They’re pretending, they know what has hit them. They thought he can be a silly individual, in order that they might now have the ability to use that one to problem him. If you see the issue of the PDP, these folks inflicting issues for us within the PDP are apologists for different political events.
“So, the APC in Osun thought Adeleke can be so gullible to the extent of contesting within the PDP in order to make use of the issue within the nationwide to file a case towards him and proceed to battle him on all fronts, however Adeleke is smarter. Now, they know each step they take, Adeleke is all the time forward of them; they’re not pleased,” he mentioned.
On when Adeleke will formally be a part of a brand new occasion, Alimi mentioned discussions are ongoing, and readability will come earlier than December 13.
He mentioned, “As per the query, the place the governor goes, allow us to take it one after the opposite as a result of an election is a course of.
“He has resigned now, however let’s say on or earlier than December 12 or 13, all people would have recognized that one as a result of the deadline for the nomination, main, and another issues for the political events is December 15.”
The commissioner reiterated that the governor’s resignation was avoidable, had it not been for the occasion’s inner divisions.
“Had it been that the PDP just isn’t fractionalised on the nationwide degree, there wouldn’t be any motive for Gov Ademola Adeleke to have resigned from PDP,” he added.
The Commissioner mentioned the governor would report landslide victory in any political occasion he decides to contest the governorship election in.
GOVERNOR TILTS TOWARDS ACCORD PARTY — INSIDERS
Sources throughout the ruling authorities informed THE POINT that Governor Adeleke is leaning in direction of the Accord Get together as his platform for the forthcoming ballot.
The event comes amid failed makes an attempt to affix the All Progressives Congress (APC).
With the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) setting a December 15 deadline for occasion primaries, the governor now faces a restricted window to find out the platform on which he’ll pursue his re-election bid.
In the meantime, latest developments point out that Adeleke has lastly settled on the Accord Get together as his doubtless platform for the 2026 election.
A number of members of his political camp confirmed the transfer, and former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, broadly thought to be Adeleke’s political mentor, gave credence to the event in an interview on Osogbo’s radio programme final week.
Talking in Yoruba, Oyinlola mentioned, “At a time we thought of going to the APC, however I mentioned I’d not comply with them as a result of I do know that occasion effectively. My place has not modified. The APC fails to honour guarantees. As secretary of the New PDP throughout the formation of the APC, I didn’t get something for my efforts. My resolution to maneuver with Adeleke is determined by the occasion we select. If it’s a celebration I don’t imagine in, I cannot be a part of. APGA can be a one-shot likelihood.
“The Accord Get together is a good possibility as a result of I understand how it was fashioned and its founder, Olusegun Obasanjo. I used to be additionally a part of these within the formation of the African Democratic Congress, however it failed to fulfill expectations regardless of having distinguished politicians and nonetheless has lingering points. When the governor returns this week, we’ll talk about and inform the folks of Osun of our resolution.”