Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has been cleared as the sole governorship candidate for the Accord Party, just hours after his high-profile defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n
No fewer than 150 delegates from the party, five from each local government council area of the state, are seated at the venue to pick the party\u2019s governorship candidate through an affirmation process.<\/p>\n
Governor Adeleke formally resigned from the PDP on Tuesday evening, citing long-running leadership problems and crisis within the party\u2019s national structure as the reason for his departure.<\/p>\n
He immediately joined the Accord Party, signaling his intention to contest for his second term under a new platform.<\/p>\n
A statement issued on Wednesday morning by the Chairman of the Accord Screening Committee, Elder Ibe Thankgod (who is also the party\u2019s National Organising Secretary), confirmed that the Governor had been cleared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe governor has fulfilled all the requisite requirements for nomination and participation at the primary<\/em>,\u201d Thankgod stated, presenting a certificate of clearance to Adeleke.<\/p>\n Responding, Governor Adeleke expressed his gratitude to the screening committee and the party leadership, affirming his readiness for the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n \u200b\u201cI am ready for the primary and I am ready for the general elections. We are winning by God\u2019s grace<\/em>,\u201d the Governor was quoted as saying, confident of leading the Accord Party to victory in 2026.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of Tee Global Innovataions. Contact us via [email\u00a0protected]<\/strong><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has been cleared as the sole governorship candidate for the Accord Party, just hours after his high-profile defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). No fewer than 150 delegates from the party, five from each local government council area of the state, are seated at the venue to pick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[2453,322,1925],"class_list":["post-238105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-accord-party","tag-ademola-adeleke","tag-osun-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251210-WA0004-1000x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}