Adeleke Yet To Inform PDP Of His Resignation – Turaki
National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tanimu Turaki, on Tuesday, said the party has yet to receive any official communication from Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun over his resignation from PDP.
Turaki stated this while speaking with newsmen shortly after the party’s National Working Committee meeting in Abuja.
He said while Adeleke has the right to stay or leave the party, he had yet to communicate the party that he was resigning his membership.
“We have seen in the media a letter purported to be from him resigning his membership of our party, but I tell you that up to this moment, we have not officially received any such indication from him that he has left this party.
“From the instructions we have given our people in the field, I know that Gov. Adeleke’s name is one of the aspirants vying for the ticket.
“So, if he decides—either in person or via a representative at the centre of the primary—that he has withdrawn or refused to make himself available, then that will form part of the report we will receive.
“As far as we are concerned, even if what we saw on social media is true, as a Nigerian, Gov. Adeleke, like any other person, has the constitutional right to freedom of association. He is free to move in; he is free to move out of any political party,” he said.
Turaki said that the power and strength of PDP remained with the people, not persons elected on the platform of the party.
“We are together with our people. If you go to states where some of the governors have left, conduct a survey, and you will discover that most of the people did not go with those who defected. That is what we are counting on.
“Our people are with us intact, and by the special grace of God, when election time comes, they will prove to Nigerians that the PDP is still in proper and complete shape,” Turaki said.
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