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Governor Ademola Adeleah’s assertion that he never tried to switch from the PDP to the APC in Osun State has been refuted by the party.

According to the APC, Adeleke was told by the party’s national leadership that he would not be given an automatic ticket to run for governor and would instead need to go through the standard nomination procedure.

Adeleke was dishonest when he informed PDP stakeholders he had no plans to leave the party now or in the near future, according to a statement issued on Saturday by Kola Olabisi, the APC’s Director of Media and Information in Osun.

At the stakeholder meeting, the rumors that he was about to defect to the APC were brushed aside by Adeleke as “fake news spread by those threatened by our exceptional leadership performance in the state.”

The state PDP stakeholders, including former Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Dr. Olu Alabi, Professor Wale Oladipo, Akanni Olohunwa, Mr. Sunday Bisi, Adewale Egbedun, and Lasun Yusuf, were surprised by Adeleke’s failure to acknowledge that his last-ditch attempts to defect to the opposition APC had failed.

The fact that some governors from the Southwest geopolitical zone and well-known billionaire businesspeople were clandestinely planning Governor Adeleke’s defection attempt under cover of darkness was not widely known.

Informed and perceptive members of the public still remember his imploring visit to Chief Bisi Akande at his home in Ibadan, Oyo State.

“We wonder why Governor Adeleke failed to reveal to the PDP stakeholders that the condition given to him by the leadership of the ruling party at the national level was that he would have to queue up and that he could not be given an automatic ticket for the governorship election under the APC.

“If Governor Adeleke is cocksure that he is popular, why touting the option of defecting into the APC to fly the governorship flag of the party? Could it be the desolate state of his so-called ruling party that was responsible for his initial plan to defect into the APC?

“It is those viewing the PDP-produced governor from outside the state that are ascribing the attribute of popularity to him when in actual fact, his party witnesses defection of its members into the leading opposition party almost on a daily basis.

“It is a misnomer for Governor Adeleke to have an exaggerated notion of his political popularity, influence and acceptability when his shortcomings are constantly showing a red sign having served the state within the limit of his unenviable capacity for three years running which has proved to be a monumental disaster to the overall development of the state.

“We congratulate the forward-looking members and supporters of our party that God Almighty was magnanimous enough to have divinely blocked the aspired defection of Governor Adeleke into our party which could have caused untold friction, lack of cohesion, disunity and schisms of an unimaginable dimension.

”As a party, we are warning Governor Adeleke to withdraw the false claims made to the unsuspecting stakeholders of the Osun State PDP, or he risks having detailed information about his numerous failed attempts to join our party exposed to the public,” the APC stated.

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