PDP Welcomes Court Of Appeal Judgment On Candidate In Osun Elections, Takes Consequential Decision

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 PRESS STATEMENT

Our lawyers have informed us that earlier today, the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has upheld the nomination of Adebayo Olugbenga Adedamola as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, for Osun State elections, as submitted by the Kabiru Turaki-led Peoples Democratic Party and directed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately include the party's logo on the ballot for the elections to be held on Saturday August 15, 2026.

The panel of the Court held that the party having duly conducted primaries which were monitored by INEC, and the name of the winner forwarded to the commission, there was no legal impediment to the participation of the candidate in the elections. 

Specifically, it held that the access code for nomination on the portal was a mere administrative formality which cannot override the statutory provision of forwarding names to the commission, which PDP had done.

This judgment confirms the persistent bias and unceasing opposition by INEC against the legitimate leadership of our party, in favour of pretenders who are working for the ruling party. The primaries that produced our candidate was peaceful, transparent, and the result uncontested. It was duly monitored by INEC, but the Commission blatantly refused to recognise our candidate thereafter and withheld the codes for the upload of candidates from us. 

The party approached the court and today the Court of Appeal allowed the appeal by the Turaki-led PDP and directed INEC to include the party's logo on the ballot papers for the elections.

Though justice has finally been done, in this case the grant of justice is akin to a denial as there is no opportunity for our candidate to undertake campaigns in preparation for the elections. This ugly situation would have been avoided had INEC chosen to act responsibly and not in the very partisan way that it did and continues to do. We reiterate our position that INEC is not a neutral umpire, but more of an interested party with the goal of achieving an uncontested or weakly contested elections by the opposition parties, in favour of the ruling party.

To this end, faced with the unimaginable difficulty that this situation puts on us, the Interim National Working Committee has chosen not to throw its hands up in defeat, which would only align with APC's wicked playbook. As a true opposition party and in defence of multi-party democracy, and after exhaustive consultations with key stakeholders, the Committee has decided to support the candidature of Governor Ademola Adeleke of Accord Party for Saturday's governorship elections. Governor Adeleke is a former member of our party who left because of the state-engineered and funded leadership conflict in our party. We therefore ask all our members to vote for Governor Adeleke. 

We encourage them to go out on Saturday to vote, defend their votes and ensure that their votes count in the election.

Nigerians must resist the shameful do or die disposition of the APC to win elections in places where they are not popular, against the clear wishes of the people. Elections must be a true reflection of the peoples' wish, freely expressed through the ballot. Anything short of that is robbery and must not be allowed to stand.

Signed:

Comrade Ini Ememobong, mnipr

National Publicity Secretary

Interim National Working Committee

Peoples Democratic Party

12082026

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