Adebayo Adenrele
The former Commissioner for Works and Transportation in Ekiti State and the immediate state past Secretary of the People’s Democratic Party, Ogun Theresa, has said that the party will unsit the incumbent Governor, Biodun Oyebanji in the 2026 governorship poll.
This was contained in a statement signed and made available to journalists in Ado-Ekiti by his Special Adviser, Oladimeji Atenibiaje.
Ogun said the party enjoys electrifying popularity, the right appeal across 177 wards and wider acceptability to abort Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s second term bid in the forthcoming election and use same as a template for the 2027 presidential contest.
Ogun stated this on Sunday, during a church thanksgiving marking the end of her tenure as the PDP State Secretary and the opening of a Consultation/ Reconciliation/Mobilisation office in Ado Ekiti to kickstart aggressive membership drives for the party ahead of 2026.
In spite of the lacklustre performances of the party in past elections and seeming cleavages within its fold, Ogun asserted that efforts are being intensified to restructure the PDP and strengthen it to be able to dislodge the ruling party.
She posited that self serving tendency to wreck the party will be stoutly resisted before the 2026 gubernatorial poll.
Her words, “Defeating the APC is not an impossible task, we have the wherewithal to accomplish this, particularly now that Nigerians are in economic pains and are gradually regretting voting APC into power at all levels.
“All we needed to do is to put our house in order, checkmate the fifth columnists and aggressively mobilise Ekiti people to prove that we are serious to launch a comeback in 2026 and the task will be realised easily”.
Ogun urged the new Caretaker Committed composed by the National Leadership to be impartial, be focused and shun disloyalty in the administration of the party. She reminded that the party requires cohesion and convergence of efforts and ideas to wriggle out of the current conundrum and rose to stardom, by winning the coming governorship election.
Ogun said the Consultation/reconciliation/mobilisation office she inaugurated in Ado Ekiti would serve as a rendezvous for the PDP members and interested Ekiti people to promote the party to be able to pose as a strong alternative platform to the “wobbling and fumbling ruling APC”.
The former Commissioner appealed to Ekiti citizens to forget the past mistakes and vote massively for the party in the coming election now that they have realised that the PDP remains the best platform to take Ekiti and Nigeria to the promised land.
“With these increasing and hydra-headed insecurity crises, skyrocketing food prices, hyper inflation, rising youth unemployment, deep-seated divisions among Nigeria, it is evidently clear that the APC has failed the people and it must be wholesomely rejected by the populace in every election”.