The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has enjoined President Bola Tinubu to replicate protection of opposition candidates in Nigeria, referencing the granting of asylum and providing protection to Mr. Fernando Dia Da Costa, the opposition presidential candidate in the recently concluded Guinea-Bissau Presidential Election.

According to information credited to the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar, and his Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Alkasim Abdulkadir, the decision was taken to shield Mr. Da Costa from imminent threats to his life, safeguard the democratic aspirations of the people of Guinea-Bissau, and reinforce Nigeria’s commitment to regional peace, stability, and conflict de-escalation in the sub-region.

Comrade Ini Ememobong, PDP National Publicity Secretary, while noting that Nigeria’s intervention, which is aimed at preserving peace and democracy in Guinea-Bissau and, by extension, the West African sub-region, the PDP urges President Tinubu to apply the same democratic principles at home.

This includes checking and curtailing the activities of anti-democratic forces within his cabinet and political machinery, who openly orchestrate, fund, and engineer crises in major opposition parties.

Although the President is not expected to assist opposition parties, he has a constitutional duty to ensure that Nigeria’s political space remains free, open, and competitive.

Presently, this space is being constricted through coercion of elected officials to defect to the ruling party and the sponsorship of crises in opposition parties.

The philosophical underpinning that catalysed Nigeria’s intervention in Guinea-Bissau should also guide the President’s conduct domestically to safeguard Nigeria’s electoral democracy from decline and prevent the slide toward a one-party state.

The President must act promptly in defence of democracy in Nigeria.

He cannot present himself as a defender of democracy in the sub-region while enabling anti-democratic practices at home that undermine democratic institutions and processes.

Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has resigned his membership of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP).

Mallam Olawale Rasheed,Spokesperson to the State Governor, who confirmed the development, said that the resignation was contained in a letter dated November 4, 2925 , and addressed to the PDP Chairman for ward 2, Sagba Abogunde of Ede North Local government, Osun State.

The letter reads as follows: “Due to the current crisis within the national leadership of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), I hereby resign my membership of the PDP with immediate effect.

“I thank the People’s Democratic Party for the opportunities given to me for my elections as a Senator (Represented Osun West) and as Governor of Osun State under the People’s Democratic Party”, the governor noted in the letter personally signed by him.

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Biodun Oyebanji, has forwarded a list of nominees to the State House of Assembly for screening and consideration for appointment as Commissioners in a bid to reconstitute his cabinet.

The list comprised of commissioners who were members of the State Executive Council that was dissolved by the Governor on August 10, 2025.

In a statement signed by Olayinka Oyebode Special Adviser (Media) to Ekiti State Governor, said that the decision to re-present the former commissioners for consideration by the State Assembly was jointly taken by the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and critical stakeholders of the party in Ekiti State, who impressed it on the Governor to retain the team.

The decision was hinged on the need for the party to go into the June 20, 2026 Ekiti State Governorship election as a united family.

It is believed that appointing a new set of commissioners barely seven months to the election could be counter-productive.

Recall that the party leadership, the leadership of various towns and communities and other critical stakeholders, worked with the screening committee set up by the Governor, in the selection, nomination and appointment of the Commissioners and and other appointees in 2023.

Governor Oyebanji, had at the inception of his administration, said the party and leaders of various towns and communities in the State would play crucial roles in the process leading to the appointment of people into offices in order to make them accountable to the people.