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A former aide to Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State, Pastor Yemi Olayinka, has defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC.
Olayinka a Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former Special Assistant to the Governor on Youth Matters while speaking with newsmen shortly after defecting to the ruling party at Ado Ekiti Ward 8 said Fayose rules the state as a dictator, thereby inflicting hardship on the masses through his anti-people policies.
He described PDP as a “dead party that is already waiting for its final funeral” due to the dictatorial leadership style of Fayose.
Olayinka alleged that Fayose’s style of leadership has forced prominent members of the PDP including foundation members to leave the party.
He said, “I love PDP so well that I decided that come rain, come sunshine, I will never defect to APC. But when Fayose came, he hijacked the party. He is the State Working Committee, the Commissioners, the Assembly members, to the extent that nobody could have a say.
“He has forgotten so soon that during his misadventure to Labour Party, some of us stayed back in the PDP and prevented it from total collapse. If PDP had died before he came, would he have won the governorship ticket? Today, Fayose has succeeded in killing the party in Ekiti .
“I can’t afford to stay in a party that is being controlled by a power-greedy individual. I am a team player and I believe in the ethos of democracy, so we are leaving the PDP for Fayose all alone”.
Olayinka while accusing the governor of deceiving electorate in the state prior to the June 21, 2014 governorship election by claiming that he has changed said the “Ekiti people have now realized that a leopard cannot change its spot.”
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