Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Adegboyega Oyetola, on Friday in Osogbo declared that the fortune of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State has nosedived in the state with the gale of defection that hits its rank.

Oyetola, the immediate past governor of the state, spoke at a rally organised to receive PDP ex-National Deputy Chairman, Shuaib Oyedokun and ex-governorship aspirant on the platform of PDP, Dotun Babayemi and their supporters into APC.

The ex-Osun State Governor, who expressed confidence in the party winning the state in the next governorship election, said the defection into the party by Babayemi and his people was an indication that more people from the ruling party would join APC from the PDP before 2026 gubernatorial poll.

He further said, “It is an irony that we lost an election over a year ago and there has been no major defection from the party. What we have is the reverse. It is the ruling party that is coming to us, which shows that APC remains a party to beat. We have done so well, and people are starting to see that when it comes to governance, the progressive knows how to.

“The way President Bola Tinubu has been governing us, that is what the APC governors in their respective states have been doing. I am delighted for the fact that we are not just getting anybody, but people of substance. Like Baba Suaibu, he is a veteran member of the PDP, decamping to the APC. It shows that PDP doesn’t exist any longer here.

“I am confident that in 2026 we are going to take over the state. This is just the beginning because several people are willing to come back to us, and a lot of political heavyweights are coming to join us.
I welcome Dotun Babayemi and Alhaji Suiabu Oyedokun to the progressives.”

Also speaking at the event, Babayemi said good governance had ceased in Osun after Oyetola exited office.

He said, “The last time we witnessed good governance was in 2022 when Oyetola left government and it is time we unite to send the present administration out of the government house for the sake of the state’s development.”

Reacting in a statement, Osun PDP chairman, Sunday Bisi described Babayemi and others’ defection into APC as “a drama by the opposition APC to shore up its bad fortunes in Osun State.”

The party urged Osun people not to lose sleep over the “formal realignment of some political traders, whose round-tripping business of feeding fat on the common patrimony of the state was decisively halted through the July 16 2022 governorship election.

“The PDP believe the inglorious antecedents of the disillusioned dramatis personae involved in the soap opera of self-pleasuring are in public court. Such individuals like Mr Dotun Babayemi and his ilk have since been put in their place long before now and have ceased to be members of our party right before the 2022 governorship election.

“We however understand that Osun PDP’s image stock is so huge that impressionists like Babayemi must cling onto it, deceiving themselves as decamping from the ruling party.”

press9jatv:
What Oyetola said here is 100% truths, Ade dancer has further destroyed Osun State Pdp . Really a house divided against itself can never succeed and stand. Adeleke will be massively defeated in the 2026 governorship election 🗳 . Osun State Pdp has fall apart

Ofunaofu:


You created a thread and still commandeered the FTC simply because you are in a hurry to sell an already tested but failed former governor of osun state and also create an impression that the former governor who lost his re-election bid, whom the people of Osun State rejected resoundingly during the last governorship election, still has something to offer.

Osun State is moving forward with Adeleke, Osun state is better off with Adeleke, the people are happy and they know so well that Oyetola time is past. He offered nothing, and he still has absolutely nothing to offer.

In fact, if not for Tinubu appointing him minister, Oyetola would have slipped into political oblivion. Tinubu only rewards failures, and that is one of the reasons his regime has become the worst in the history of this country.

Reality3080:
chinedu u even come put mouth for osun matter when obviously u know nothing about it but just to pass your generational hate as usual

Typical igbo n obsession with Tinubu

Ofunaofu:


I am Nigerian

Do you have a problem with that

Reality3080:
are u igbo?

Yes or no?

Ofunaofu:


You want to know my tribe so that you can pigeon hole me accordingly

You must be an ethnic bigot

I am Nigerian

Reality3080:
this is the 5th igbo person that is ashamed to declare he’s igbo

Is it a thing of shame to b igbo?

U people have spoil your goodwill sote u know if u come out that u are igbo nobody will take u serious

Then since u know this y don’t u change your ways?
It’s obvious u are doing something that is making u ashamed of your forefathers

Racoon, gidgiddy

Another comrade is ashamed to declare he’s igbo

BossGerald:


Was it not you that created a thread about massive demolition in Enugu state

You people are always accusing others of what you're guilty of.

Hypocrites

Reality3080:
u are mistaken guy

No b me

Reality3080:
this is the 5th igbo person that is ashamed to declare he’s igbo

Is it a thing of shame to b igbo?

U people have spoil your goodwill sote u know if u come out that u are igbo nobody will take u serious

Then since u know this y don’t u change your ways?
It’s obvious u are doing something that is making u ashamed of your forefathers

Racoon, gidgiddy

Another comrade is ashamed to declare he’s igbo

BossGerald:


No be you but the guy na Yoruba ronu?

You now see the hypocrisy

Reality3080:
ogbeni carry your igbo pain comot here

BossGerald:


Na you pain wan kee head slammer

Reality3080:
chinedu

Are u igbo?




Don’t run away

Just yes or no answer

BossGerald:


Olaniyi what class of Yoruba are you first??

We have 1st to 13th...and if you must be a bigot atleast be a first class yoruba.

So be honest, which class are you?

Ofunaofu:


You created a thread and still commandeered the FTC simply because you are in a hurry to sell an already tested but failed former governor of osun state and also create an impression that the former governor who lost his re-election bid, whom the people of Osun State rejected resoundingly during the last governorship election, still has something to offer.

Osun State is moving forward with Adeleke, Osun state is better off with Adeleke, the people are happy and they know so well that Oyetola time is past. He offered nothing, and he still has absolutely nothing to offer.

In fact, if not for Tinubu appointing him minister, Oyetola would have slipped into political oblivion. Tinubu only rewards failures, and that is one of the reasons his regime has become the worst in the history of this country.

yarimo:
Every nooks and cranny in osun state everywhere you go is APC

rummmy:
and they lost election and will still lose...

yarimo:
Every nooks and cranny in osun state everywhere you go is APC

Ofunaofu:


You want to know my tribe so that you can pigeon hole me accordingly

You must be an ethnic bigot

I am Nigerian