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Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke did not participate in the party’s primary election in the state, according to Umar Sani, a prominent member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Sani claimed that the governor purposefully circumvented the procedure in order to provide justification for a brief defection.

He claims that Governor Adeleke chose not to participate in the primary because he thought the PDP might not be able to produce a legitimately recognized candidate due to internal conflicts.

Sani claimed that in order to get a ticket, the governor intended to switch parties before rejoining the PDP.

Sani, who chaired Osun’s three-person ad hoc delegates committee, said he personally oversaw the delegates’ election in Osogbo in an interview with Arise Television’s Morning Show on Friday.

He claims that the exercise was carried out in a nonviolent manner and that the results were formally acknowledged and uploaded to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) online.

He claimed that in order to maintain the party’s credibility, the party rejected this tactic and insisted that all candidates run on the PDP platform.

Sani said: “Let me quickly tell you that I was the chairman of the three-man ad hoc delegates committee, and I went to Osun. I was in Osogbo, and I lodged in a hotel called DC Hotel, and we conducted the three-man delegate election, after which I returned to Abuja. It has been uploaded into the INEC portal. INEC has recognized it, and I received it. I am not speaking to you as somebody from the outside; I am speaking from the inside.

“And what happened is that Governor Adeleke does not want PDP to field a candidate. He believes that there is a problem within the PDP regarding whose signature will be recognized by INEC. So he’s trying to move to another party, and according to him, he would now get the seat, and then return back to PDP.

“PDP says no, we cannot do that. What we want is for somebody to run on our platform. Because what will the party look like if we have a platform and we do not use anybody on that platform? Then how will other people react to other platforms? They will run away also and give the same excuse—’let me go and get something from somewhere else and come back.’

“So we said, no, we will have everybody; anybody who wants to contest must use our platform. And so that’s why we conducted the primary election. It was not hijacked by anybody. It was peacefully done. It was all over social media. The results were counted openly, and it was announced.”

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