By Adesina Soyooye
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has finally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The Governor was forced to dump the Party under which he was elected Senator and later, Governor, due to the intractable crisis which engulfed it since 2023, and worsened in the past two months.
Feelers that the Governor was finally, officially, on his way out of the party filtered-in early Monday when the PDP postponed its Governorship Candidate Primary Election scheduled for December 2, 2025.
In a letter signed by its National Organising Secretary, Umar Mohammed Bature titled
Update On Osun State Gubernatorial Primary Election the party notified
delegates, stakeholders, and the general public that the Gubernatorial Primary Convention has been postponed following an ongoing consultations and the need to ensure full compliance with the Party’s constitution, established guidelines, and the Electoral Act.
It added that
“A new and definitive date for the primary will be communicated in due course after all procedural requirements have been concluded.”
It also confirmed Adeleke as its only Candidate for the 2026 Governorship election. “For clarity, the PDP affirms that His Excellency, Senator Ademola Adeleke, remains the only duly cleared, screened, and confirmed aspirant for the Party’s gubernatorial ticket in Osun State. No other individual purchased forms or completed the screening process; hence, Governor Adeleke stands as the sole valid aspirant recognized by the Party”, it noted.
However, the fluid situation put Adeleke’s ticket in jeopardy. Sensing what would be afoot, Adeleke had distanced himself from the controversial PDP National Convention held in Ibadan in November. He was conspicuously absent. What was not public was that the Governor had, since 4th November, 2025, resigned from the beleaguered Party.
In his resignation letter to his Sagba Abogunde Ward 2 Ede, dated 4th November, 2025, and titled “RESIGNATION OF MY MEMBERSHIP OF THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC PARTY (PDP)”, the Governor wrote: “Due to the current crisis of the national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my membership of the Party with immediate effect.
“I thank the Peoples Democratic Party for the opportunity given to me for my elections as a Senator (Represented Osun West) and as Governor of Osun State under the People’s Democratic Party.”
The letter was received and acknowledged same day by the Ward Chairman, Saka Kamoudeen Alamu.
It was not immediately which Party the Governor would settle for in order to contest for his second term in office.
A couple of months back, after very high level discussions, he was set to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, and even though President Bola Tinubu was all for it, Adeleke could not stand the bitterness and open antagonism from some members of the Osun State APC which greeted that move. He quickly withdrew into his shell, but pledged full support for President Tinubu’s second term reelection in 2027.
Not a few people doubt he would join the African Democratic Congress, ADC, given the very untidy relationship between Tinubu and the National Secretary of the Party, Rauf Aregbesola, a former Tinubu very close ally and friend-turned very bitter political enemy. Some people also say both the Social Democratic Party, SDP and the Labour Party, LP, are ruled out for personal reasons.
What is not in doubt, however, is that whichever Party he joins, the hugely popular Governor will, most likely, have the support of his people.
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