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The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State has welcomed a prominent Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart, Chief Dele Okeya, to the broom party.
Okeya, a former Commissioner during the first tenure of Governor Ayo Fayose, led over 5,000 PDP members into the APC at a rally held over the weekend at Emure Ekiti, headquarters of Emure Local Government Area.
All the defectors who came from all the ten wards in the council 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 Okeya into the APC fold included Ekiti South Senatorial Chairman, Kayode Babade; State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun; former House of Representatives member, Dr. Ife Arowosoge; former deputy governorship candidate, Alhaja Mariam Ogunlade, among others.
Okeya, who is an in-law to the former Chief of Staff to former President Goodluck 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.”
Okeya said: “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.
Okeya, a former Commissioner during the first tenure of Governor Ayo Fayose, led over 5,000 PDP members into the APC at a rally held over the weekend at Emure Ekiti, headquarters of Emure Local Government Area.
All the defectors who came from all the ten wards in the council 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 Okeya into the APC fold included Ekiti South Senatorial Chairman, Kayode Babade; State Publicity Secretary, Taiwo Olatunbosun; former House of Representatives member, Dr. Ife Arowosoge; former deputy governorship candidate, Alhaja Mariam Ogunlade, among others.
Okeya, who is an in-law to the former Chief of Staff to former President Goodluck 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.”
Okeya said: “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.