Ex-Ondo governorship candidate, Jegede resigns from PDP

Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship campaigner successful Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, has resigned his rank of the absorption enactment amid its prolonged interior crisis.

Jegede communicated his determination successful a resignation missive dated August 7, 2026, addressed to the president of the PDP successful Ward 11, Owode/Imagun Ward, Akure South Local Government Area, Fabiyi Kole Adewale.

The erstwhile governorship campaigner stated that his departure from the enactment took contiguous effect.

“Kindly instrumentality this arsenic a ceremonial announcement of my resignation arsenic a subordinate of the Peoples Democratic Party successful the state, effectual immediately,” Jegede wrote.

Jegede, a erstwhile Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice successful Ondo State nether erstwhile Governor Olusegun Mimiko, was the PDP’s emblem bearer successful the 2016 and 2020 governorship elections.

He contested some polls against the precocious erstwhile Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, but was unsuccessful connected each occasion.

Confirming his exit from the PDP, Jegede said helium would disclose his adjacent governmental measurement astatine the due time.

“Yes, I tin corroborate my resignation from the PDP. I volition besides fto you cognize my adjacent governmental move,” helium told a reporter.<...