Segun Oni, a former governor of Ekiti state, says he is on
his way out of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Oni, who sought the ticket of the APC but lost to Kayode
Fayemi, the incumbent governor, disclosed this to journalists in Ado Ekiti, the
state capital, on Monday.
He said the decision was taken after an observation of
alleged maltreatment of his supporters.
The development comes about two years after the former
governor threatened to leave the party over alleged harassment of his
supporters.
In May 2019, the APC in Ifaki-Ekiti ward two, Ido/Osi local
government area of the state, had suspended Oni.
He was suspended for his refusal to honour an invitation sent
to him by the “fact-finding committee” of the ward over allegations of
anti-party activities levelled against him.
Oni said he is making plans to decamp to the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP), his former party, but gave no exact date for his
official return to the PDP.
“You all knew the kind of treatment I have been getting so
far. As we speak, none of my supporters was being allowed to get appointment or
contest elections in APC,” he said.
“Even if the APC gives me the whole world, I won’t be happy
seeing integral part of my political life, I mean my supporters being treated
badly as we have come to find it
“You can imagine, at a particular time, I was suspended in
my Ward at Ifaki Ekiti and nothing was said about it.
“Apart from politics, I am the Asiwaju, a high title holder
in my town; if someone can have the effrontery to do that to me here, you can
see it has sent a signal that there is a problem.
“It’s not about Segun Oni, my people and supporters are the
main issue. I can confirm to you that we have taken a decision and we are in
the process of joining the PDP.
“We are going to set up implementation committee to work on
our programme of actions. Our joining PDP is not something that will take three
months. I am not that kind of a politician that will rush at things, we can’t
just go back that way. There must be proper planning. We are carrying out local
government by local government counting of those that will follow us.
“I am not alone in this. Those who took the action for me
were my supporters across all the local governments areas and 177 wards who feel bad about the whole
scenario in APC. But the major thing is that we are moving, we have taken a
decision to go back and on that we are working on.”
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