Politics
Osun PDP Postpones Governorship Primary Over National Leadership Crisis
The Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has postponed its 2026 governorship primary over unresolved internal disputes within the party’s national leadership.
The primary was initially scheduled to hold on Tuesday, 2 December 2025.
In a statement issued in Osogbo by the state chairman, Sunday Bisi, the party noted that Governor Ademola Adeleke had already met all procedural requirements outlined in the PDP nomination timetable.
According to Bisi, the Governor purchased and submitted his expression of interest and nomination forms between 13 and 25 October 2025.
He added that Governor Adeleke subsequently appeared before the Screening Committee on 30 October 2025, where he was cleared and issued a Certificate of Clearance.
However, Bisi explained that internal conflicts at the national level escalated shortly after the screening exercise, leading to the suspension of key officers responsible for supervising congresses and primaries.
He said the leadership crisis—now the subject of several court cases across the country—halted the ward and local government congresses slated for 24 and 29 November 2025, during which delegates for the primary were expected to be elected.
“In light of these developments, it has become inevitable that the PDP governorship primary can no longer hold as scheduled,” he stated.
The party chairman confirmed that Governor Adeleke remained the only aspirant who duly purchased, submitted, and underwent screening in line with the official timetable.
Nonetheless, the prolonged national leadership tussle has raised concerns that the Governor might withdraw from the race unless a settlement recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is achieved within the electoral window.
The party stressed that the responsibility for conducting primaries rests solely with the PDP National Secretariat but said it considered it necessary to keep members and the public informed.
Bisi assured that efforts were ongoing to secure a lawful and timely resolution to the crisis and reaffirmed the party’s commitment to complying with electoral guidelines and maintaining transparency throughout the process.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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