No fewer than 500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, including elected and appointed political office holders at the local government levels under the immediate past government of Ayodele Fayose on Tuesday defected to the All Progressives Congress.
Speaking on behalf of the defectors at event which held at Government House Pavilion, Kehinde Aduloju, from Ado Local Government, said their decision to dump the PDP was due to Governor Kayode Fayemi’s performance.
He accused the PDP-led government of not really bringing political dividends to them, “but empty promises under the immediate past administration”.
He said, “Today, bigwigs like Senator Raji Rasaki, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, Hon Adeniran Alagbada, Gboyega Aribisogan, Sunday Akinniyi, and many others are in the APC. To us, the PDP had become an empty camp with a few relevant politicians to confront the APC.
“We have nothing to fear in the APC because the way Prince Adeyeye was given the APC senatorial ticket a few days after defection shows that the APC remains a good party.”
The Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, Adeniran Alagbada, who received the defectors on behalf of the APC leadership and Fayemi, assured them that they would not be discriminated against as the APC operates an open door policy.
“I have spoken with Governor Fayemi, he had assured me that he would put smiles on your faces. You struggled hard under the PDP led government of Governor Fayose, but nothing was done,” the Speaker said.
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