{"id":80041,"date":"2025-12-11T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80041"},"modified":"2025-12-11T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:16:44","slug":"adeleke-says-pdp-falling-apart-as-he-defects-to-accord-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/11\/adeleke-says-pdp-falling-apart-as-he-defects-to-accord-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Adeleke Says PDP \u2018Falling Apart\u2019 as He Defects to Accord Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has blamed worsening internal crises in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for his decision to resign from the party and join the Accord Party ahead of the 2026 governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Wednesday, Adeleke said he made every effort to stabilise the PDP but the situation \u201ckept falling apart every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments came less than 24 hours after he formally defected and emerged as Accord\u2019s governorship candidate during the party\u2019s primary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the PDP. The party made me a senator and governor,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I tried my best to balance the crisis in the party, and everything kept worsening. I had hoped to remain, but one needs a functional platform to contest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adeleke said he left the PDP reluctantly, insisting that persistent disputes made it impossible to seek re-election under its banner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love my state. If one didn\u2019t need a platform to contest, I would have stayed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>His exit marks a major shift in Osun\u2019s political landscape and is expected to further deepen the PDP\u2019s troubles as the 2026 race gathers momentum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke has blamed worsening internal crises in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), for his decision to resign from the party and join the Accord Party ahead of the 2026 governorship election. Speaking on Channels Television\u2019s Politics Today on Wednesday, Adeleke said he made every effort to stabilise the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80041","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80043,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80041\/revisions\/80043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}