THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State has described as “strange and embarrassing,” what it said was the “silence of the party’s national publicity secretary, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, over the unlawful arrest of officials of the state government by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).”
Ekiti PDP, in a statement on Saturday, claimed that the party’s national spokesperson had “not purged himself of anger over his failure to secure Governor Ayodele Fayose’s support for his governorship ambition and do his job.”
The publicity secretary of the PDP in Ekiti, Jackson Adebayo, who stated this in the statement, expressed what he said was “the party’s disappointment over Adeyeye’s attitude towards the performance of his main duty of defending the PDP and its members.
“Is he happy that officials of Ekiti State government are being harassed by the EFCC? Will Adeyeye be silent as he is now if Governor Fayose had adopted him instead of his deputy, Professor Kolapo Olusola? Should a party spokesperson be so obsessed with his governorship ambition to such an extent that he will no longer be alive to his responsibilities?
“Adeyeye must have to choose between being the PDP National Publicity Secretary, whose duty is to defend the party and his members and being a governorship aspirant,” the party said.
Meanwhile, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Saturday, said that it only read in the media about the arrest of the two Ekiti State government officials, the Commissioner of Finance and the Accountant General of the state, by the EFCC, and that nobody had briefed the party officially about the matter as expected.
In his reaction to the allegations of the Ekiti State PDP publicity secretary, Comrade Jackson Adebayo on the matter, the national publicity secretary of the party, Prince Adeyeye, in a telephone interview, stated that it was his personal principle to remain truthful at all times on any issue and not peddle falsehood in the name of being a spokesman of any organisation.
He said the allegations raised against him by the Ekiti State chapter of the party, through its publicity secretary, Adebayo, was baseless because the governor who should notify the party leadership of the development had not done so.