Osun Gov, Adeleke, Exco Members Remain PDP Members, Shun Entreaties By Opposition

By Ayodele Oni

As wave of deflection continues to hit opposition political parties, Members of the Osun State Executive Council have maintained that none of them or Governor Ademola Adeleke will dump the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) on which they were elected into office.

They also expressed their solidarity and support to the Governor of Osun State and leader of the state PDP, Ademola Adeleke, vowing not to abandon him ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial poll.

The cabinet members including Commissioners and Special Advisers also declared their readiness to stand solidly “like a rock of Gibraltar” behind Governor Adeleke “in his undying quests to take Osun to greater heights.”

While also pledging their unalloyed loyalty to the ruling party in the state, the PDP, under the leadership of Sunday Bisi, the Osun Executive members denied plan to switch allegiance to another party.

They emphasised that “no amount of the usual political shenanigans by the opposition party members will be enough to derail the good intention of the Governor for the people as exemplified by Senator Adeleke.”

Reading the text of the press briefing on behalf of the Forum of Commissioners and Forum of SAs, Dosu Babatunde, Secretary of the Commissioners’ Forum asked the people of the state to disregard the insinuation that they are ditching the governor and the PDP for another political party ahead of the 2026 governorship election.

“Your Excellency, Mr Governor, we are using this opportunity to further affirm and reaffirm our love and unshakable solidarity to you and your administration in Osun state.

“We read and heard with great consternation the many insinuations being mischievously bandied about in certain political quarters, particularly the opposition parties about the looming mass defection of the Executive Council members from the ruling PDP to another political party.

“This is not only a political fallacy taken to the extreme but a careless and unguarded

insinuation by the usual disgruntled members of the opposition party in the state.

“To this end, we are using this opportunity to state and reaffirm, again and again, that no amount of political gerrymandering as being currently hatched by the opposition party members in the state will make us be a party to destroying a house (PDP) which we fought tooth and nail to build.

“Come 2026, the entire people of Osun state will reenact the feat of getting Your Excellency, Senator Ademola Adeleke returned as Governor of our dear state.”

Fielding questions from journalists, Babatunde also debunked speculation that Governor Adeleke is planning to defect to APC.

“That is a rumour from the pit of hell. The governor (Ademola Adeleke) is a PDP governor and he is doing very well. He is not moving to any political party.

“He will not move. We are members of the executive council and we are close to him. He is going to continue his developmental strides in PDP,” Babatunde declared.