- ’If he leaves, it’s journey to political oblivion’
The Peoples Democratic Party has reacted to last week’s defection of its immediate past National Publicity Secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, to the ruling All Progressives Congress.
The PDP said much as it was yet to be officially notified, for Adeyeye to have defected to the APC of all political parties, was no more than a journey to political oblivion.
The former PDP spokesman left the party on the heels of the May 8 governorship primary election in Ekiti State, which he lost to the state’s Deputy Governor, Prof. Kolapo Olusola-Eleka; but which Adeyeye alleged was influenced by Governor Ayodele Fayose through “intimidation of delegates.”
Adeyeye, a former Minister of State for Works under former President Goodluck Jonathan, defected to the APC a few weeks after leaving the PDP, attributing the action to his resolve not to work with Governor Fayose whom, he chided over sundry issues.
But reacting, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Kola Ologbondiyan, said Adeyeye’s defection was yet to be communicated to the party secretariat to make his exit from the party official.
He also described the excuse given by Adeyeye that the conduct of the Ekiti State PDP governorship primary election was influenced as lame.
“Honestly, for the party at the national secretariat, we did whatever was needful to create a level playing ground for all the aspirants in Ekiti State and Adeyeye attested to that in his comment after the primary.
“I can only say the party will leave him with his conscience on his decision and I will not say more than that. This is because, number one, Adeyeye has not notified the party that he has left. When the national secretariat receives the notification from him, then we can respond appropriately.
“But if it is true that he has now left for the APC, then it is a clear case of a journey to political oblivion.
“Like I said, if he truly defected to the APC, then it was desperation taken beyond right reasoning and politics taken for selfish aggrandizement,” Ologbondiyan appraised.
Reacting too, the Ekiti State Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Jackson Adebayo, alleged that ab initio, Adeyeye haboured a secret agenda to destabilise the party and that his defection to the APC was only the final stage of the agenda.
“The former minister had an ulterior motive right from the start and it was against the party during the primary governorship election at the different levels of committees; from the local government, state committees to the congress committee.
“We will not miss him and his supporters, as they tried to appeal to him not to leave the party but he turned deaf ears.
“Also, all efforts by Governor Ayo Fayose to dissuade him from leaving the party was met with a rain of abuses and cursse,” Jackson averred.
