A former Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Olufemi Bamisile, has said eight serving State Executive Committee members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State will soon join the All Progressives Congress.
The APC chief said this on Thursday at a meeting with APC members at his campaign office in the Ado Ekiti located just beside the PDP secretariat.
Bamisile said the decision of the PDP executive members to join the APC was part of his efforts to weaken the ruling party and strengthen the opposition party ahead of the 2018 governorship poll.
The ex-Speaker, who was the state PDP Vice Chairman before he moved to the APC last year, said the eight chiefs had become sad about the way the state was being run by Governor Ayodele Fayose.
He noted that many PDP members, who laboured to nurture the party when the governor defected to the Labour Party and supported him on his return, had been sidelined as the party had become “a personal property.”
Bamisile added, “Frantic effort to restore the winning history of the party has made it possible for eight members of the PDP State exco to be prepared to join this party.
“With all modesty and support of the three former governors in the state. I make bold to say that not less than eight members of the state executives are set to join the APC, because I have personally spoken to them and they are confident that the APC is a better place.
“You will recall that a former chairman of the party, Chief Ropo Adesanya, has taken a bold step to tear his party membership card and joined our progressive party.
“The PDP is not as organised as you all thought, with the autocratic style of Governor Fayose, who happens to be their leader.”
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