A former Special Assistant to the Ekiti state governor on Youth Matters, Pastor Yemi Olayinka, on Thursday, defected to the opposition All Progressives Congress, while describing Ayo Fayose as a ‘power greedy individual’.
Olayinka, a former ally of Fayose said it’s unfortunate that Ekiti state is under a one-man dictatorship while noting that Fayose deceived voters while campaigning to be governor, sequel to the June 21, 2014 governorship elections.
The Peoples Democratic Party chieftain described the PDP as a “dead party that is already waiting for its final funeral” due to the autocratic leadership style of Fayose.
While stressing that nothing had changed in the state since Fayose took the mantle of leadership, he asserted that “Ekiti people have now realized that a leopard cannot change its spot.”
He also lamented the fact that Fayose’s leadership style has forced many out of the party as well as bemoaning the governor’s anti-people policies which has brought hardship upon the people.
“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”.
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