By Rotimi Ojomoyela
Former Chief Whip of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Sunday Akinniyi, yesterday defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and joined the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Akinniyi said he decided to defect to APC due to Governor Ayodele Fayose’s alleged high-handedness and disrespect for top leaders of the party, thereby causing internal crisis and mass defection of influential members to the opposition.
This came barely a week a former Deputy Majority Leader of the Assembly, Hon. Ebenezer Alagbada took similar action.
Addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti at the campaign office of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the candidate of the APC, Akinniyi, who is representing Ikere constituency II, said he got the blessing of critical stakeholders in his constituency before taking the step. He said he decided to join the campaign of Dr…
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