Osun 2026: PDP state, federal lawmakers endorse Adeleke

Forward of the August 8 governorship election in Osun State, members of the Nationwide and State Assemblies elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party within the state have endorsed the Accord Party and its candidate, Governor Ademola Adeleke.

This was contained in a communiqué issued on the finish of the lawmakers’ stakeholders’ assembly in Osogbo, the state capital, as reported by the Information Company of Nigeria on Sunday.

NAN stories that Adeleke defected from the PDP to the Accord Party on December 9, 2025, to hunt re-election.

The communiqué, learn by the Deputy Senate Minority Chief, Senator Lere Oyewumi, said that the endorsement of Adeleke was primarily based on his efficiency in infrastructure improvement, employees’ welfare, healthcare, training, and democratic stability.

“Having reviewed the efficiency of the governor in infrastructure improvement, employees’ welfare, healthcare, training, and democratic stability, we unanimously endorse and provides our complete help to His Excellency, Sen. Ademola Adeleke, for a second time period in workplace within the curiosity of continuity, stability, and sustained progress for Osun State,” it mentioned.

The communiqué, nonetheless, said that the political realignments within the state don’t in any means diminish the energy, construction, or grassroots help of the governor and the PDP within the state.

“The get together stays united and firmly established on the Nationwide Meeting caucus degree, State Meeting degree, Government Council, native governments, wards, and grassroots buildings throughout the state,” it mentioned.

The lawmakers additionally mentioned they handed a vote of confidence within the management of the PDP Chairman within the state, Mr Sunday Bisi, the State Working Committee, and the management of the get together in all of the 30 native authorities and space places of work, in addition to the 332 wards within the state.

“We are saying unequivocally that they continue to be the executives of the get together in Osun State.

“Any particular person or group parading themselves as different management doesn’t have the backing of the duly elected Nationwide and State Meeting caucus of the get together in Osun State and shouldn’t be accorded legitimacy,” the communiqué mentioned.

The communiqué additionally appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene within the native authorities disaster within the state.

The lawmakers mentioned the continued withholding of native authorities allocations because of the state was inflicting avoidable hardship for lecturers, nurses, healthcare employees, native authorities civil servants, retirees, and conventional establishments on the grassroots.

“We name on His Excellency, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to offer a directive to the unlawful occupants to vacate instantly to avert crises.

“PDP as a celebration and the federal government within the state are law-abiding, and that’s the reason we now have chosen the trail of peace and the trail of legislation, to not throw the state into disaster,” it mentioned.

The lawmakers referred to as on the folks of the state to stay peaceable, law-abiding, and steadfast within the defence of democracy and good governance.

NAN stories that 5 members of the Nationwide Meeting elected on the platform of the PDP on Saturday formally defected to the All Progressives Congress within the state.

(NAN)