Dayo Adeyeye Dumps PDP, Says Fayose Is A Tyrant

Former Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye has announced his defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

The defection followed the disagreement between Adeyeye and Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose after the Ekiti PDP Governorship Primaries that held last Saturday, which saw the emergence of incumbent Deputy Governor of the State, Professor Olusola Eleka, as the Party’s gubernatorial election scheduled for July 14.

Adeyeye made his intention known in a Post Primaries Election Meeting with his supporters from the 16 local government areas of the state.

But Adeyeye said he was moving to another party to seek the votes of Ekiti people to develop the state.

He disclosed that since he lost the PDP primary to Fayose’s anointed candidate, Prof Kolapo Olusola, he is being wooed by five different political parties.

The former PDP National Spokesman promised to reveal the platform he would use to contest for the governorship “in the next forty hours.”

He alleged Fayose’s agenda was to do a third term in office by installing Olusola in a bid to perpetually corner Ekiti’s commonwealth.

According to him, he would have won the PDP governorship primary “if not for the way Fayose intimidated delegates by forcing them to wear aso ebi to the venue.”

He revealed that Fayose allegedly coerced the delegates to same on local government basis to monitor how they voted which intimidated many of them.

Despite allegedly monitoring delegates, Adeyeye said many of the delegates voted against Olusola, which enabled him (Adeyeye) to garner 771 votes.

He claimed that the governor, who had boasted that he (Adeyeye) would not get up to 50 votes, was shocked that he got 771 votes, which allegedly made

him (Fayose) to embark on an investigation of those who voted against Olusola.

Adeyeye accused Fayose of stealing Ekiti funds and using same to acquire property while majority of the people are wallowing in poverty.

The former Minister claimed that Fayose has wasted N8 billion Ekiti funds on chartered flights in the last three and half years while the flyover project was jerked up from N5 billion to N17 billion.

He said: “I am leaving the party because party can change but your state cannot change, party can change, your hometown cannot change.

“I can’t be part of enslavement, I can’t be part of corruption, I can’t be part of those keeping our people in poverty but spend billions of Naira on chartered flights to Abuja every year but will be riding okada at home.

“By seeking another platform, I want to tell him that he can’t be riding roughshod over Ekiti people and he cannot turn Ekiti to one-man rule.

“Our party leaders in Abuja were surprised at my performance at the primary despite the intimidation but I told them that I can change party, party may go into extinction but Ekiti will remain.

“I will not, because of party affiliation, allow Ekiti to be destroyed.

That is why we will take decision today on where we are going.

“Since Tuesday, civil servants, teachers, local government workers have become sad. Ekiti has been enveloped in mourning.

“What is paramount in my mind is to liberate Ekiti. Today, we will not reveal where we are going yet but where are no longer where we were.”