Senators Fadahunsi, Fadeyi defected to APC based on false assumptions – Adeleke’s aide

Hezekiah Bamiji, the Senior Special Adviser on Media to Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has described the recent defection of Senators Francis Fadahunsi and Olubiyi Fadeyi from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a major political miscalculation.

Speaking during an appearance on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Thursday, Bamiji stated that the two lawmakers wrongly assumed that Governor Adeleke was planning to defect to the APC and acted hastily without proper consultation.

“Maybe what I can say is a kind of miscalculation on the part of the lawmakers.”

“The rumour perhaps overwhelmed them, thinking that the governor was coming, they felt that they were Abuja politicians and should be faster than the governor,” he said.

Bamiji faulted the lawmakers for not consulting with Governor Adeleke, who he described as the leader of the PDP in Osun State.

He also noted that there’s no need for the governor to switch parties in order to provide quality leadership.

“Yes, the APC set a trap for them, and they entered,” he added.

Senators Fadahunsi (Osun East) and Fadeyi (Osun Central) were among four senators formally received into the APC on Wednesday, increasing the party’s strength in the Senate to 70 from the 50 seats it held at the start of the 10th National Assembly in June 2023.

The defections further reduced the PDP’s presence in the chamber to 28 senators.

Speculation about Governor Adeleke’s political future had intensified after he, his brother Adedeji Adeleke, and their nephew, Afrobeats star Davido, visited President Bola Tinubu at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos on June 3, 2025.

However, Adeleke recently reaffirmed his loyalty to the PDP and announced the party’s endorsement of Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid, while also receiving unanimous support from the Osun PDP for his own second-term ambition in 2026.

“I remain in the PDP, the party that gave me the platform to serve the good people of Osun.”

“I have been unanimously endorsed by the Osun PDP for a second term in 2026.”

2027: ADC coalition will back any candidate from transparent primaries – Amaechi

“Our party in Osun has also endorsed President Tinubu for re-election in 2027, recognising him as a proud son of our state,” he wrote on X.