Two Osun Senators Bolt Out Of PDP Citing Irreconcilable Variations

Two Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) serving senators from Osun State — Senator Francis Fadahunsi (Osun East) and Senator Olubiyi Fadeyi (Osun Central) — have formally resigned their membership of the occasion.

The resignations, submitted by way of separate letters dated July 12, 2025 and addressed to their respective ward chairmen, got here amid deepening inside crises inside the occasion following the 2023 basic elections.

Senator Fadahunsi, who chairs the Senate Committee on Trade, cited “irreparable and irreconcilable variations” inside the occasion, together with extended authorized battles on the nationwide degree, as the explanations for his resolution.

“I want to formally notify you that I’m resigning my membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with speedy impact, as a result of irreparable, irreconcilable variations and protracted authorized battles which have bedeviled the occasion on the nationwide degree after the 2023 basic elections,” his letter to the PDP Ward 4 chairman in Obokun native authorities space learn.

Equally, Senator Fadeyi, who chairs the Senate Committee on Setting, referenced factional divisions and ongoing courtroom disputes inside the occasion as the idea for his resignation.

“Irreconcilable variations and irreparable division which have emerged, and courtroom circumstances and counter courtroom circumstances within the final three years, which have created factions within the occasion on the nationwide degree,” he wrote in a letter to the PDP Ward 3 chairman in Oke-Ejigbo.

Each senators emphasised that their choices adopted extensive consultations with political associates, households and supporters.

The lawmakers haven’t but introduced their subsequent political affiliation, although hypothesis is rife amid rising defections from the PDP to rival events together with the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the African Democratic Congress (ADC).

The PDP, already grappling with inside strife and a shrinking political base, now faces intensified stress because it loses two key voices within the Nationwide Meeting.