In a unanimous voice, members of the Osun State Executive Council have expressed their solidarity and unwavering support to Osun State Governor and leader of the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ademola Adeleke, vowing not to abandon him ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial poll.

The cabinet members, including commissioners and special advisers, during a media briefing in Osogbo, yesterday, also declared their readiness to stand solidly “like a rock of Gibraltar” behind governor “in his undying quests to take the state to greater heights.”

The Osun State executive members, while also pledging their unalloyed loyalty to the ruling party in the state, the PDP, under the leadership of Sunday Bisi, denied plans to switch allegiance to another party.

They emphasised that “no amount of the usual political shenanigans by the opposition party members would be enough to derail the good intention for the people as exemplified by Senator Adeleke.”

Meanwhile, Secretary of the Commissioners’ Forum, Dosu Babatunde, who read the text of the briefing on behalf of the Forum of Commissioners and Forum of Special Advisers, urged the people of the state to disregard the insinuation that they are ditching the governor and the PDP for another political party ahead of the 2026 governorship election.

He said: “Your Excellency, we are using this opportunity to further affirm and reaffirm our love and unshakable solidarity with you and your administration in Osun State.

“We read and heard with great consternation the many insinuations being mischievously bandied about in certain political quarters, particularly the opposition parties, about the looming mass defection of the State Executive Council members from the ruling PDP to another political party.

“This is not just a political fallacy taken to the extreme, but also a careless and unguarded insinuation by the usual disgruntled members of the opposition party in the state”

“To this end, we are using this opportunity to state and reaffirm, again and again, that no amount of political gerrymandering being hatched by the opposition party members in the state will make us be a party to destroying a house (PDP) that we fought tooth and nail to build.

“Come 2026, the entire people of Osun State will re-enact the feat of getting Your Excellency, Senator Ademola Adeleke, returned as governor of our dear state,” he added.