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Obaseki’s Ex-Commissioner Joins APC As Oshiomhole Calls For Better Representation

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3 years ago

July 11, 2022

A former Commissioner for Energy and the Director of Obaseki Campaign Organisation from Akoko-Edo Local Government Area during the 2020 governorship election, Akin Agbaje has defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

He and his supporters were received in Igarra by the former National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, who said the Edo State government had received N16b from the Federal Government because of the federal roads that his administration constructed.

He said such money ought to be used to construct more roads for the people.

Agbaje said he sees his return “and that of many others who are with him as coming back home to roost and we will join hands with other leaders to comb Akoko Edo for victory in next year general election.”

He pledged to support the party to win elections in 2023.

Receiving the defectors, Oshiomhole said: “We have gotten to a point that all Nigerian leaders that are in politics and in business must recognise that we must build and rebuild a country worthy for all. It is very dangerous to be the only man who can feed in your community and it is more dangerous for a country where only few look unto tomorrow with hope.

“We aren’t relying on what statisticians tell us, if they say our economy is growing at 20% per week, we must ask the question, is the pieces of meat on our table increasing by 20% every month? If it isn’t, something is wrong.

“At this age, I have a duty to my country to identify others to rebuild the ladder which made it possible for me as the son of a farmer in a village that was not on the map to go to school without fees and grow to become the governor of this state.

“Parliament isn’t about buying two motorbikes called constituency projects given to two youths out of about 4000 youths. It isn’t about buying small 20 grinding machines to give to about 20000 women.
“I warned against what I called celebration and institutionalisation of poverty.

“In the senate, we must ensure that in making appropriation, we do it for the benefits of the people. If we make that road that crosses Akoko-Edo that I built when I was a governor and many other too which of course I am aware that the FG has refunded the money to my successor worth about N16b, such can be further used to making more roads for our people. We must rebuild that road which was destroyed because of the failure of FG roads.

“That will not be a favour but pending duty. That is why your senator should sit on the floor of the senate and insist that the agenda of the Edo North cannot be downplayed.”

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PDP Issues Certificate Of Expulsion To Wike, Fayose, Anyanwu, Others

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1 day ago

December 3, 2025

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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has issued certificate of expulsion from the party to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and other 10 members earlier expelled from the party.

The party National Chairman, Tanimu Turaki, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen after the PDP National Working Committee (NWC) meeting in Abuja on Tuesday.

The other members, according to him, include the embattled National Secretary, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu, the Legal Adviser, Kamarudeen Ajibade, former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose.

They also included Sen. Mao Ohuabunwa, Austin Nwachukwu, Abraham Amah Nnanna, George Turna and Chief Dan Orbih, expelled during the party National convention in Lagos.

Turaki said that the original copies of the certificate had been dispatched to the owners through a courier service to serve as proof that they were expelled from the PDP.

“We have taken note of the fact that Nigerian law frowns on dual membership of political parties, and so we have sought to make it easy for them.

“Now that they are no longer members of our party, and now that the National Convention, which is the highest decision-making organ of our party, has expelled them, we have decided to issue them certificates of expulsion.

“So, when they go to register with other political parties in Nigeria, they will show these certificates as proof that they are no longer members of the PDP.

“By that, those parties will not accuse them of trying to belong to more than one political party,” he said.

He called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and security agencies, including the Nigeria Police, the Department of State Services, and other government agencies, to take note.

“Very soon, members of the society will be informed via proper disclaimers that any person henceforth who decides to do business with them, any or all of them, does so at his or her own risk.

“They are no longer members of the PDP. They have been expelled,” he added.

He added that the NWC also reviewed some of the cases filed against the party and lawsuits instituted by the party, particularly the one that related to the “unlawful and illegal” closure of the party’s national Secretariat, the Legacy House, and the Wadata Plaza.

“The brief we received from our lawyers is that we are on sound ground, and that very soon, the law will take its course,” he said.

Turaki said the NWC was prepared to be saddled with the responsibility of performing its functions as the leading opposition party in Nigeria.

“We are going to provide a credible alternative to Nigerians. We are going to provide credible leadership to Nigerians by the special grace of God from 2027,” he said.

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Adebayo Adedamola Wins Osun PDP Governorship Primary

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3 days ago

December 2, 2025

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Adebayo Olugbenga Adedamola, popularly known as FRYO, has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate for the August 8, 2026 governorship election in Osun State.

The primary election took place in Osogbo on Tuesday amid heavy security presence.

Announcing the result, chairman of the primary election committee, Humphrey Abba, stated that Adebayo secured 919 votes out of 957 accredited ballots, giving him a clear victory in the contest.

Explaining that there were 20 void votes following the withdrawal of one of the candidates, believed to be Governor Ademola Adeleke, Abba added, “The candidate that got the remaining votes is Adebayo Adedamola with 919 votes and he stands elected and returned.”

DAILY POST reports that despite announcing his resignation from the party, Adeleke’s name appeared on the ballot paper for the PDP governorship primary.

Party officials said the exercise was conducted in accordance with established guidelines, with accredited delegates participating in the voting process.

Adeleke announced his resignation in a letter dated November 4, 2025, and addressed to the PDP leadership at his ward.

On Monday, Osun PDP chairman, Sunday Bisi, had announced that the governorship primary slated for Tuesday, December 2, 2025, has been postponed due to leadership crisis at the national level.

But a faction of the party went ahead with the exercise in Osogbo on Tuesday.

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Gov Adeleke Resigns From PDP

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3 days ago

December 2, 2025

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Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial primaries of the party.

Adeleke’s resignation letter, dated November 4, 2025, sighted by Tribune Online was addressed to the PDP ward chairman for Ward 2, Sagba Abogunde, Ede, Osun State.

According to the letter, the governor’s resignation was based on “the current crisis of the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).”

According to the letter, titled: “Resignation of my membership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP)’ read, “Due to the current crisis of the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my Membership of the People’s Democratic Party with immediate effect.

“I thank the People’s Democratic Party for the opportunities given to me for my elections as a Senator (Represented Osun West) and as Governor of Osun State under the People’s Democratic Party.”