Defection: Adeleke Is Victim Of PDP’s Prolonged Problems, Says Ememobong

National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ini Ememobong, has said Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, is simply “a victim of circumstances” created by the party’s own unresolved crisis.

Speaking on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Thursday, Ememobong said Adeleke’s defection did not happen in isolation but was the natural outcome of problems the PDP allowed to grow unresolved.

He described the situation as “vicarious because every problem is human-caused and therefore should have a human solution.”

According to him, if the PDP leadership had stepped in early, the breakdown that eventually pushed Adeleke out could have been avoided but instead, the party leaders failed to act decisively at the critical moment.

Describing the PDP’s internal decline as self-inflicted, he warned that unresolved political problems only worsen with time.

“The challenge is that immediately we begin to feed the monster without knowing we will end up in the belly of the monster, after a while, we become victims.

“If we feed animals to the monster, and we think time will solve problems, time allows human beings to solve problems. It doesn’t solve problems on its own,” he said.

He said the party could have taken strong action in 2023 when the first cracks appeared, but its leaders chose dialogue, hoping tensions would cool.

“You also cannot fully blame them,” he added, explaining that sometimes negotiations seem like the best option when emotions are high, “but unfortunately, it didn’t work.”

Furthermore, he linked the eventual fallout to the recent PDP convention in Ibadan, which saw mass expulsions, the election of new national officers, and deep internal conflict.

According to him, Adeleke’s exit was the result of “circumstances arising from indirect liabilities which he cannot completely extricate himself from,” arguing that the governor was pushed away by long-ignored problems that grew into a crisis too big to contain.

THE WHISTLER reports that Adeleke formally resigned from the PDP, the political platform under which he rose to prominence as senator and later governor.

The governor announced his decision in a post on his official X handle late on December 2, attaching a copy of his resignation letter dated November 4, 2025.

Then on Tuesday, he announced that he has joined the Accord Party as a new platform to seek re-election in August next year.

He disclosed that he joined the Accord Party more than a month ago precisely 6th November, 2025, as a platform to seek re-election in 2026.

He also said the decision was after weeks of consultation and deliberations with stakeholders and opinion leaders.

On Wednesday, a day after he made his defection public, Adeleke was confirmed as the governorship candidate of the Accord Party in Osun State for the 2026 election.