Ekiti 2018: PDP Strongman Cyril Fasuyi, Others Dump Party

 An Ekiti businessman and PDP Chieftain, Cyril Fasuyi has finally dumped the Peoples Democratic Party.

Fasuyi, a PDP House of Reps aspirant during the 2015 general election and leader of the party in Ido/Osi Local Government Area made this known to reporters at a well-attended meeting of prominent leaders and stakeholders of the party at the Olojudo's palace in Ido Ekiti, Ekiti State.

Fasuyi led other party stalwarts like Hon. Taye Olatunji, a Commissioner in Ekiti SUBEB, Chief Olatuyi, former State Secretary of the PDP and their followers and supporters out of the party in reaction to what they described as the imposition and conduct of a carefully manipulated gubernatorial primaries which produced Prof. Kolapo Olusola Eleka as the PDP Gubernatorial candidate in Ekiti last week.

The aggrieved members announced their immediate resignation from the party and promised to soon make official, their next destination.

Amidst cheers from supporters who attended the meeting, a resolution was passed for everybody in Fasuyi’s political group to decamp en mass from the PDP.


Fasuyi and his group  further alleged the Ayodele Fayose led government of not having any physical presence in the town or in the entire local government in its almost four years of existence and as such opined that "there was no reason why the local government should embrace continuity of poverty and a one man selfish show."