In the heat of the massive defection pandemic that has hit the People’s Democratic Party, rumors have been thrown around concerning the defection of several governors and members of their cabinets. One of such is Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke.
However, members of the Osun State Executive Council had, on Monday, April 28, pledged and reaffirmed their unwavering loyalty to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its leader, Governor Ademola Adeleke.
The council and members of the governor’s cabinet, which comprises commissioners and special advisers, equally used this medium to wave off rumors that Osun State Governor Adeleke would be defecting from the PDP to the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Speaking to some press members on Monday, the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Mr. Dosu Babatunde, assured that the members are committed and loyal to the party; hence, people should disregard the rumors.
โYour Excellency, Mr Governor, we are using this opportunity to further affirm and reaffirm our love and unshakeable solidarity with you and your administration in Osun State. โWe read and heard with great consternation the many insinuations being mischievously bandied about in certain political quarters, particularly the opposition parties, about the looming mass defection of the Executive Council members from the ruling PDP to another political party. โThis is not only a political fallacy taken to the extreme but also a careless and unguarded insinuation by the usual disgruntled members of the opposition party in the state.”
โTo this end, we are using this opportunity to state and reaffirm, again and again, that no amount of political gerrymandering hatched by the opposition party members in the state will make us be a party to destroying a house (PDP) which we fought tooth and nail to build.”
“Come 2026, the entire people of Osun State will reenact the feat of getting Your Excellency, Senator Ademola Adeleke, returned as Governor of our dear state,โ he concluded.
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