With barely a few months to the Ekiti State Gubernatorial election which is slated for July 14, more than 100 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) have dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ayetoro-Ekiti in Ido/Osi Local Council of the state.
Addressing newsmen on Wednesday at a ceremony held for the decampees, a former local government APC Deputy Chairman, Mr. James Afolabi, who led the defectors, disclosed that he left the party alongside his followers because internal democracy was not at its best practices in the APC.
Afolabi further explained that he joined the PDP to get fairness, justice and equity in the party, which he said was lost in the APC.
Other defectors who spoke at the event include, Oluwole Gbenga, who told the gathering that he was leaving the APC for PDP because of developmental projects embarked upon by Governor Ayodele Fayose’s administration in the state as well as its people-oriented drives.
“I’m defecting because I have seen the efforts of the PDP; the purposeful government the PDP is giving the state is one of the factors that enticed me to crossover from APC to PDP,” he said.
Meanwhile, the lawmaker representing the area in the House of Assembly, Jeje Samuel Abiola, who welcomed the new members, said that the defectors were thrilled by the good works of Fayose’s administration in the state, noting that the defectors voluntarily left their former party to join the moving train of the PDP.
He lauded the step taken by new members of the party, promising that they would be accorded all rights and privileges derived by old members of the party.
Also, the Deputy Governor of the state, Kolapo Olusola, who received the defectors on behalf of the leadership of the party in the state, pointed out that there’s no sentiment in the party, adding that the defectors would be adopted into the party and they would be accorded the rights and privileges the old members of the party are benefiting.
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