Nigeria, May 2 -- Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has ruled out defection from the Peoples Democractic Party (PDP), amid speculations of his plan to join the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Mr Adeleke, 64 years old, is believed to be nursing an ambition to seek re-election in the next year's governorship election in the state, although he has not openly declared so.

In a statement by his spokesperson Olawale Rasheed on Thursday, Governor Adeleke assured that he has no plans to defect from the PDP to any other political party, including the APC.

Speaking at the closed-door meeting with the Osun State PDP stakeholders' forum at the banquet hall of the Government House in Osogbo, Governor Adeleke described rumors about his alleged...