Prince Adedayo Adeyeye
THE immediate past National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Adedayo Adeyeye, has dumped the party and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Adeyeye, who served as the Minister of State for Works in the administration of Dr Goodluck Jonathan, announced his defection on Tuesday during a press conference and thereby confirmed earlier rumours that he had concluded plans to dump the PDP after losing the party’s primary election to Professor Kolapo Olusola (Eleka).
The day after the primaries on the 8th of May 2018, Adeyeye had addressed newsmen where he stated that he could not work with Fayose and his deputy and the winner of the PDP ticket, Professor Olusola and said he would make his next political move know in 48 hours.
About two weeks after without a word from the camp of Adeyeye, rumours became widespread that he had joined the APC, but his camp denied it and blamed the rumour on his detractors.
But on Tuesday, Adeyeye said he was compelled to choose between political parties and his community, saying he had settled for the APC.
He said: “I am compelled to make a choice between loyalty to a political party and loyalty to my community, l will readily choose my community or state.
“Political parties come and go but the community remains. I cannot change my state or hometown but I can always change my party if I feel that it can no longer serve as a vehicle for our collective good as a people.”
Adeyeye said, “after deep introspection and wide consultation with various stakeholders in this state, my supporters and I have decided to leave Egypt which the Fayose administration represents and join hands with patriotic Ekiti people to board the train of the APC for the onward journey to our promised land.”
According to him, people he described as “patriotic leaders of the party” appealed to him to reconsider his decision but explained that “the issue was never about me as a person. It was about the interest of the very many people who associate with me and more importantly the collective interest and future of Ekiti people.”
He hinged his decision to leave the PDP on Governor Ayodele Fayose, claiming that Fayose was “impossible to work with.”
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He said: “I have said no to Fayose’s continuity of dictatorship, impunity, imposition, poverty, unprecedented looting of our common patrimony and deliberate debasement of the self-esteem of our people.”
According to him, “we are joining forces with eminent Ekiti sons and daughters to free our land from the vulture and predator feeding fat on our commonwealth.
“We have assurances of Dr. Kayode Fayemi the APC candidate that he has come to right the wrong of the past and not on a vengeance mission as being touted by Fayose and his cohorts. He is now better equipped, well focused and better prepared to move Ekiti forward.”
Reacting, the Kolapo Olusola Campaign Organisation (KOCO) said he was free to choose where to pitch his tent, saying that others were coming to the PDP while he was going away.
Director of Publicity of KOCO, Lere Olayinka, who reacted for the group, said “he has a right to his political prostitution. We are not going to begrudge him. We wish him well in his new party. While he was the PDP national spokesman, he had spoken terrible things of the APC and he has now gone to join the same party.
“His confirmation of defecting to APC has lent credence to the earlier rumour that he had romanced with a South West APC governor and collected N200 million from him to perfect his defection to the APC.
“His move to APC will not in anyway affect us. This is because the majority of those he thought were behind him did not defect with him. In fact, one of his two party agents for the last primary is still with us in PDP and you know what that means. If somebody is your party agent and couldn’t go with you to another party.
“Even as he is moving from PDP many others from APC are coming to us, so we have nothing to lose with his defection.
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