Adeleke Won’t Dump Party– Osun PDP

The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says the state Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, will not dump the party.

The PDP statement comes following a report on Social Media that the Governor plans to leave the party.

In a statement by the party on Saturday, the Caretaker Chairman, Dr Akindele Adekunle accused the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC of being behind the rumour circulated on social media.

The party described the insinuation as a failed distraction agenda, calling on Osun voters to troop out en masse and vote for all the PDP candidates in the state Assembly elections on March 11.

The statement said that Adeleke remained ever committed to the PDP as demonstrated in the presidential and National Assembly elections, stressing that the PDP would repeat the same feat on March 11 by clearing all the 26 Assembly seats in the state.

It reads in part, “Let me urge the public to discard the rumour of defection. There is no reason for it, especially given the impressive victory he led the PDP to just a few days ago at the presidential and National Assembly elections in the state.

“The Osun APC is badly decimated and is struggling to even find its feet. Governor Adeleke has within 100 days proven that good governance is possible, hence the massive goodwill the PDP currently enjoys across the state. So voters should ignore the lies from the pit of hell. Governor Adeleke remains a PDP leader and Governor,” it concluded.

Responding in another statement, the APC acting chairman in the state, Mr Tajudeen Lawal, said the Osun PDP chairman had the exaggerated notion of Adeleke’s popularity, saying no party would have anything to do with the Osun Governor.

Lawal further said that the story credited to the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, lampooning the Osun APC leaders over the results of the last elections, was a mere fabrication from the rumour mill of the PDP and a figment of the imagination of those spreading the mere composition scripted to confuse the people.

He said “the President-elect was a seasoned politician.”

Lawal called on the APC members to troop out en masse to exercise their civic rights during the House of Assembly elections coming up next Saturday.

PR/ Mercy Chukwudiebere