State chairman, excos dump ADP in Ekiti

The State Chairman, Olakunle Abegunde and other executive members of Action Democratic Party (ADP) in Ekiti State have dumped the party.

Abegunde led leaders of the party in the 16 local government areas of the state to dump the ADP just six days after the party’s deputy governorship candidate Idowu Afuye announced his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

According to Abegunde, they will soon announce their next political party, saying their leaving ADP was a result of the alleged inept and gross incompetence of the party’s national body.

He berated the ADP national leadership and governorship candidate, Kemi Elebute-Halle over what he called “unwarranted suspension” conveyed to him in a letter as he explained that he had been solely financing the party since 2017.

Abegunde said: “One would have expected the author of the letter, if he was not trying to be mischievous, to mention one or two items belonging to the ADP in Ekiti State. The party does not own anything in cash or kind in Ekiti.

“Ordinarily, I ought not to act on the letter, which was not meant for me, as it was wrongly addressed to another person, but must I continue under these puppets? The party has never released any kobo to the state, despite all the revenues accruing to it from the state and other states of the federation.”