In a big embarrassment for Dr Jonathan and Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose, Chief Okeya, a former commissioner during the governor's first tenure, led over 5,000 PDP members into the APC. They announced their switch of loyalties at a rally held over the weekend at Emure Ekiti, the headquarters of Emure Local Government Area.
All the defectors who came from all the ten wards in the local government area were received into their new party by the state APC chairman, Chief Olajide Awe, who was represented by his deputy, Mrs Kemi Olaleye. Other leaders who received Chief Okeya into the APC fold included Ekiti South Senatorial chairman, Kayode Babade, Taiwo Olatunbosun, Dr Ife Arowosoge and a former deputy governorship candidate Alhaja Mariam Ogunlade.
Chief Okeya, who is an in-law to the former chief of staff to former President Jonathan, Chief Mike Oghiadomhe, said he had to leave the PDP because the umbrella party has been taken over by those he described as criminals, crooks, rogues and ragamuffins. He said the PDP in Ekiti lacks internal democracy and has become a one-man show and sole proprietorship in which the governor has hijacked the functions of the deputy governor, speaker, secretary to the state government, chief of staff and state party chairman.
“The disenchantment I had with PDP is that it had lost focus and direction. We built PDP from scratch and by the grace of God we made it an election-winning platform but the leadership lost direction," he added.
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