Breaking: Ekiti PDP loser Adeyeye, supporters defect to APC

PDP’s former spokesperson and guber aspirant in the Ekiti prtimary election has defected to the APC weeks after losing his party ticket.

Dayo Adeyeye saud he is joining forces with the APC and its candidate Kayode Fayemi, to rescue Ekiti.

Folliwing his loss to Ekiti Dep Gov Kolapo Olusola, the former minister of works first announced his resignation from the PDP.

He alleged irregularities in the election, orgainsed by the Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa-led committee, which many adjudged free and fair.

Adeyeye scored 770 in spite of the third contestant Sen. Abiodun Olujimi stepping down and joining forces with him.

Olusola, however, polled 1,191 to defeat the former minister of state for works.

Adeyeye left the venue of the election in a huff, before the result was announced, though he was said to have confided in the election committee he accepted the result.