Adeleke, Adebayo on poll as Osun PDP gov main begins

Regardless of asserting his resignation from the get together, the identify of Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke appeared on the poll paper for the Peoples Democratic Party governorship main as 957 delegates started voting to elect the get together’s flagbearer on Tuesday in Osogbo, the state capital

The Secretary of the Committee answerable for the first, Sunday Solarin, introduced the beginning of voting shortly after the accreditation of delegates ended round 11:35 a.m.

Solarin stated Adeleke and Adebayo Adedamola have been the 2 aspirants looking for the get together’s ticket, including that Adeleke had already introduced his resignation from the get together.

He additional defined that votes forged for Adeleke would “finally quantity to waste,” urging delegates to observe directions as they voted within the main.

As of the time of submitting this report, voting is ongoing.

Recall that PidomNigeria On-line had reported that representatives of the Unbiased Nationwide Electoral Fee and a committee led by Humphrey Abba from the PDP nationwide headquarters had arrived on the venue in Osogbo.

There was additionally a heavy safety presence, with armed 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 filed in to test their names earlier than voting.

The train had been clouded by uncertainty. Theophilus Shan, a factional Nationwide Organising Secretary of the PDP, earlier directed that the first would go forward as deliberate, however Umar Bature, the Nationwide Organising Secretary of one other faction, stated the train had been shifted.

Earlier, Adeleke had introduced his resignation from the PDP.

His resignation letter, dated December 4, 2025, was addressed to PDP Ward 2 Chairman Sagba Abogunde of Ede North Native Authorities.

A duplicate obtained by PidomNigeria On-line within the early hours of Tuesday, partly learn,”As a result of present disaster inside the nationwide management of the Folks’s Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my membership of the PDP with fast impact.

“I thank the Folks’s Democratic Party for the alternatives given to me for my elections as a Senator (Represented Osun West) and as Governor of Osun State underneath the Folks’s Democratic Party.”

The governor’s spokesperson, Olawale Rasheed, confirmed the event.

PidomNigeria On-line studies that the PDP management in Osun State stated Adeleke might not be concerned with looking for the get together’s nomination for the 2026 governorship election.

Nevertheless, the get together famous that his resolution may change if the crises inside the get together are resolved, recognised by INEC, and concluded inside the Fee’s timeline for the Osun ballot.

Addressing journalists in Osogbo on Monday, Osun PDP Chairman Sunday Bisi stated the crises had made it unimaginable to conduct the get together’s governorship main as earlier scheduled for December 2.

In response to the timetable launched by INEC detailing actions in direction of the August 8, 2026 Osun governorship ballot, events fielding candidates have till December 15 to submit the names of their flagbearers.