Less than a day after Governor Ademola Adeleke announced his resignation from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the state chairman, Sunday Bisi, declared that the scheduled governorship primary would be suspended, the party’s national leadership has reinstated plans to go ahead with the exercise on Tuesday, December 2.
Earlier on Monday, Bisi told a group of journalists that the ongoing suspension and counter-suspension of key national officers—who are responsible for supervising congresses, primaries, and submitting candidate lists to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)—had created uncertainty around the process. He also suggested that Adeleke might withdraw from seeking the party’s nomination for the 2026 governorship election unless the crisis at the national level was resolved and recognised by INEC within the required timeframe.
However, hours after Bisi’s comments, a resignation letter dated November 4, 2025 and attributed to Governor Adeleke appeared online. In the letter, he cited persistent turmoil within the PDP’s national leadership as his reason for leaving the party.
Despite the confusion, the PDP’s national secretariat maintained that the primary would hold as planned. In a letter dated December 1, 2025, the National Organising Secretary, Hon. Theophilus Shan, confirmed that all preparations remained intact.
According to the letter, the party had already completed the congresses that produced ad-hoc and national delegates on November 24 and 29. Stakeholders and the public were reminded that the primary to elect the party’s governorship candidate would take place on December 2 at 10:00 a.m.
Shan added that the Electoral Committee for the exercise had been fully constituted and would oversee the process. He also warned candidates to conduct themselves in line with the party’s constitution, noting that any indiscipline during or after the primary would attract strict sanctions.
Meanwhile, security concerns have emerged around the scheduled venue. A senior security official disclosed that threats were issued to the facility’s owner and manager, warning them not to allow the primary to proceed. This, the source said, could force the party to move the event to a different location, though security agencies were monitoring the situation.
A party insider, who requested anonymity, insisted that the primary would still hold as planned, even though the venue had been changed. The source also assured delegates of adequate security.
Another organiser of the primary, identified only as Abiodun, accused the Osun State PDP leadership of attempting to obstruct the process but vowed that the primary would not be cancelled or postponed.
Efforts to reach the state chairman, Sunday Bisi, were unsuccessful as his phone remained unreachable at the time of filing this report.
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