Amid the escalating disaster throughout the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on the nationwide degree, following the suspension and counter-suspension of key contributors of its National Working Committee, NWC, the Osun State chapters of the PDP and the All Progressives Congress, APC, have clashed over the prospective affect of the turmoil forward of the August 8, 2026, governorship election within the state.

The Osun PDP, thru its Director of Media and Publicity, Hezekiah Oladele Bamiji, maintained that the birthday party stays robust and united regardless of the demanding situations confronting its nationwide technology.

The APC, in a separate commentary issued by way of its Director of Media and Information, Kola Olabisi, asserted that the hot trends are transparent proof that the PDP has utterly collapsed.

DAILY POST stories that all over a contemporary assembly in Abuja, the PDP’s NWC introduced the suspension of a number of most sensible officers, together with the National Secretary, Senator Samuel Anyanwu; the National Organising Secretary, Umar Bature; and the National Legal Adviser, Kamaldeen Ajibade, SAN, amongst others.

In reaction, a faction of the birthday party unswerving to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, retaliated by way of postponing the Acting National Chairman, Umar Damagum, and 5 different contributors of the NWC.

Addressing the placement, the Osun PDP pushed aside claims by way of the APC that it had halted all conferences on the state and native govt ranges, describing such assertions as “a trifling fabrication.”

“We stay united, forged, and keen on handing over the dividends of democracy beneath the functional technology of Governor Ademola Adeleke,” Bamiji mentioned.

He added, “No quantity of falsehood or mischievous propaganda from a annoyed opposition can shake our basis. We perceive the catch 22 situation of the APC, whose best hope for 2026 is to wish that Governor Adeleke is disqualified from contesting.

“Such barren prayers were rejected by way of each God and the folks of Osun State. If the APC in point of fact believes it has the capability to compete, it must get ready for the poll reasonably than live on imaginary crises throughout the PDP.

“The determined political actors parading themselves as APC leaders in Osun are simply making an attempt to adorn their looming failure by way of wishing for nationwide disarray in our nice birthday party.”

In a swift response, APC spokesperson Kola Olabisi insisted that the unfolding disaster throughout the PDP has vindicated the opposition’s previous place that the ruling birthday party in Osun is plagued by way of deep interior department and mismanagement.

He mentioned, “We urge our unswerving supporters to be discerning of their political possible choices. It is now obvious {that a} birthday party that can not effectively set up its interior affairs must no longer be entrusted with governing over 5 million other folks in Osun State.

“With the present trends on the PDP nationwide secretariat, it’s transparent that the screening report introduced final week in Abuja for Governor Ademola Adeleke’s candidacy was once not anything greater than a nugatory piece of paper.

“The PDP has no longer best moved out of the Intensive Care Unit however is rapid coming near its political burial.”