Osun lawmaker leaves APC, becomes PDP candidate backed by Wike

Olubiyi Fadeyi, who represents Osun Central Senatorial District in the Senate, has left the All Progressives Congress and returned to the Peoples Democratic Party.

Reports say Fadeyi, along with four other National Assembly members, left the PDP in July 2025.

He lost the APC ticket for the 2027 general election to Mr. Adekunle Adegoke (SAN).

Fadeyi announced his return to the PDP in a phone interview with our reporter on Thursday. He said, “I am back in the PDP led by the FCT Minister, His Excellency, Nyesom Wike. I have already written to the Senate.

“I can also confirm to you that I am the candidate for Osun Central Senatorial District for the 2027 Senate election.”

In his letter to the Senate, Fadeyi explained why he left the APC. He talked about how the 2027 National Assembly primary for Osun Central was handled by the Osun APC.

“I write to formally tender my resignation from the All Progressives Congress (APC), effective immediately. This decision has not been taken lightly. I joined the APC as a progressive party in good faith to support Mr President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, in his ancestral home, which falls within my senatorial district, Osun Central.

“Having got assurances and an agreement reached by Mr President to give me the sole ticket to run for the senatorial seat under the APC in Osun Central, which was passed down to our leader of the party by Mr President, I believed that those understandings would be honoured and that the party would uphold the principles of fairness, equity, mutual respect and internal democracy.

“Regrettably, recent developments from the leadership of the APC in Osun State have created serious trust issues within the party and made my continued membership of the party untenable. It was expressly agreed that the process for selecting candidates would be conducted on the basis of consensus. However, no consensus process was genuinely conducted, nor were party primaries held in a transparent and acceptable manner.

“This departure from our collective understanding has eroded confidence and undermined trust within the party. Furthermore, the manner in which decisions were taken appeared to disregard the authority and leadership of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, whose commitment to due process, party cohesion and democratic values is well known,” Fadeyi’s letter to the Senate President partly read.

He also expressed worry about the decision to give return tickets to other colleagues, a serving senator and three House of Representatives members, who left the party with him, while denying him the 2027 ticket.

Fadeyi said leaving the APC was not against Tinubu but was based on his belief that democratic principles, mutual trust and respect for agreements should always come first.