Defection: Gov Adeleke Was A Victim Of PDP Bad Politics

overnor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state defection from Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was ineveitable, according to the’s National Publicity Secreatry, ini Emeobong, who blamed the development on the leadership crisis rocking Nigeria’s major opposition party.

Governor Adeleke defected to the Accord party on Wednesday from the PDP, and has since picked the party’s ticket for the next year’s governorship election in the state. The governor blamed the PDP crisis for his defection, even as watchers of politics said his departure from the embattled party has further dimmed its plan to control the state.

The PDP spokesman who spoke on Channels Television The Morning Brief, on Friday said anyone in Governor Adeleke’s shoes would have done the same thing, in the same circumstance, noting that the leadership crisis in the party was allowed to drag for too long before action was taken by the leadership.

He stressed that the PDP failed to wield the stick on those reportedly troubling the party, saying by the time it decided to do so it was too late,and become very inevitable for Governor Adeleke to look elsehere where he could achieve his governorship ambition.

According to him,  “Adeleke is a victim of circumstance, and those circumstances were created by human failings within the party. Every problem has a human cause and therefore, should also have a human solution, but decisive action was not taken early enough. If leadership had acted firmly from 2023, when the decline began, the outcome might have been different.

“Sometimes leaders believe that once passions cool, people will reconsider their positions. But that didn’t happen here, and by the time the convention took decisive action in Ibadan, things had already gone too far. That is how he became a victim of vicarious liabilities that he could not completely detach himself from.’

Apart from Governor Adeleke, the Rivers state governor, Siminalaye Fubara had also dumped the PDP,andjoned the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, saying he took the action to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu re-election bid.

Both Governor Fubara and Tinbu are seeking re-election in 2007, and have recently became allies following the return of the Rivers helmsman to office, after the expiration of six months state of Emergency rule declared by President Tinubu in March this year. Fubara said his return to office was made possible by the president.