Osun 2026: PDP governorship main underway regardless of uncertainty

Representatives of the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee, and a committee led by Humphrey Abba from the Individuals’s Democratic Party nationwide headquarters have arrived on the venue of the get together’s main in Osogbo, Osun State, the place its candidate for the 2026 governorship election will emerge.

There was a heavy safety presence on the venue, with armed operatives from the Division of State Safety, the police, and the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps stationed at each the doorway and exit.

The chairman of the first committee introduced the graduation of proceedings at precisely 11:07 am, as delegates filed in to examine their names earlier than voting.

The train, nonetheless, has been marked 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.

PidomNigeria On-line had reported that Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke resigned his membership of the PDP.

His resignation letter, addressed to the PDP Ward 2 Chairman, Sagba Abogunde of Ede North Native Authorities, was dated December 4, 2025. A replica of the letter was obtained by PidomNigeria On-line within the early hours of Tuesday.

Adeleke’s resignation got here only a few hours earlier than the get together’s governorship main, slated for December 2, 2025. The letter partly learn:

“Because of the present disaster throughout the nationwide management of the Individuals’s Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my membership of the PDP with quick impact.

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

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

PidomNigeria On-line reviews that the management of the PDP in Osun State stated Adeleke might now not be inquisitive about searching for the get together’s nomination for the 2026 governorship election.

Nonetheless, the get together famous that Adeleke’s determination may change if the crises throughout the get together are resolved in a way recognised by INEC and throughout the Fee’s timeline for the Osun ballot.

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

In keeping with the timetable launched by INEC detailing actions forward of the August 8, 2026 Osun Governorship Ballot, events fielding candidates have till December 15 to submit the names of their flagbearers.