{"id":71213,"date":"2025-07-22T12:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71213"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:22:28","slug":"adeleke-osun-pdp-endorse-tinubus-2027-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/22\/adeleke-osun-pdp-endorse-tinubus-2027-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeleke, Osun PDP Endorse Tinubu\u2019s 2027 Re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke and the state leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have backed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s second-term bid in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Reports had earlier claimed Adeleke planned to dump the PDP after consultations with party leaders, who promised to follow him to any party. However, his move to the APC was rejected by key Osun APC members, with many openly criticising him.<\/p>\n<p>A stakeholders\u2019 meeting held on Monday at the Government House, Osogbo, resolved that Adeleke and the PDP would stay in the party and support Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>A communiqu\u00e9 signed by Adeleke, Deputy Governor Kola Adewusi, Speaker Adewale Egbedun, former governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola and 24 others stressed the role of grassroots politics in their decision. It clarified that the defection plan didn\u2019t originate from Adeleke and that PDP members had chosen to stand by him out of loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added: \u201cThe PDP in Osun State recognises Osun as the ancestral home of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, making him a son of the state. We hereby adopt and endorse him for re-election in 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The party also reaffirmed Adeleke\u2019s candidacy for the 2026 governorship election, directing members to spread the resolution across all party structures while urging the governor to continue with his Five-Point Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke and the state leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have backed President Bola Tinubu\u2019s second-term bid in 2027. Reports had earlier claimed Adeleke planned to dump the PDP after consultations with party leaders, who promised to follow him to any party. However, his move to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":71214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71215,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71213\/revisions\/71215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}