APC Crisis deepens: Chieftain, 500 others defect to PDP in Ekiti

 APC Crisis deepens: Chieftain, 500 others defect to PDP in Ekiti

Not less than five hundred members of All Progressives Congress in Ekiti State were Reportedly defected to the opposition Peoples democratic party, today Thursday, Sept 17th 2020. 

The former members of the All Progressives Congress, who gathered from across the 11 Wards of Ido-Osi local government area of Ekiti State were led by their leader, Hon Alade ode who expressed dissatisfaction at what he described as archaic, alien and undemocratic practice of All Progressives Congress in the state, which he said the crisis rocking the party were responsible for the mass defection being witnessed by party in the state. 

Ojaomonews.com reliably gathered that earlier to their defection, the new PDP members were formerly received by the chairman and members of their respective wards, where they alleged that Dr Kayode Fayemi government had failed to deliver dividends of democracy, particularly to the downtrodden citizens of the state. 

The event which took place at the PDP secretariat in Ido-Osi local government and presided over by the party chairman, Mr olaleye Abiodun witnessed the presence of party leaders and bigwigs in the Senatorial district: including the immediate past senator who represented Ekiti North District in the 8th Nigerian senate, Sen Duro Faseyi, a member of the caretaker committee in the Southwest zone Hon Adeola Ogunrinde, the party’s Senatorial chairman Hon. Anifowose and among other leaders. 

Meanwhile call efforts to reach out to the APC Chairman in the state, Barr Paul omotosho proved abortive, as all his lines were not connecting as at the time of filing this report.

However, political observers in the state and beyond have posited that PDP has better chances of winning the 2022 governorship election in the state, if proper reconciliatory measures could be taken to salvage the current crisis rocking the party in the state. 

In his position, Sen Duro Faseyi opined that only a genuine reconciliation could save the party from heat imminent woe. Stating that, “it is an act of absurdity, lawlessness and injustice for anyone regardless of how highly placed in the society or in the party to think that it could be justified to impose or lord a less than 10% members of the party over the general populace of the party”. He said.