Segun Oni, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) governorship
candidate in Ekiti, says he left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) because of
“cheating”.
Oni, a former governor of Ekiti, said this on Sunday during
a debate organised by Channels TV.
Responding to allegations of being a “notorious defector”,
the governorship candidate said his decision to decamp from the PDP was not
borne out of desperation.
On January 26, Oni lost the PDP governorship primary in
Ekiti to Bisi Kolawole, the preferred candidate of Ayodele Fayose, a former
governor of the state.
Kolawole was announced as the winner of the election after
polling 671 votes to beat Oni, his closest rival, who had 330 votes.
The Segun Oni campaign organisation rejected the result of
the PDP primary, while alleging that members of the organisation were
disenfranchised by the process.
Oni then resigned his membership of the PDP on February 5,
days after after failing to secure the party’s ticket.
Speaking during the debate, he accused the party of
dishonesty in its conduct of the Ekiti governorship primary.
“I do not like cheating. I don’t cheating and don’t like
people to cheat. If I see a party that has no respect for its own rules, I see
it as not my type of party,” Oni said.
“I contested the PDP primary and it was supposed to be a secret
ballot and the world saw how it became open to the extent that one man was
being shown every ballot.
“I believe if the party meant business, it should have said
no. If it aspires to rule Nigeria and put confidence in people, it would have
said no.
“I detest cheating
and don’t collaborate with cheats.”
Oni was the governor of Ekiti on the platform of the PDP
between May 29, 2007 and October 15, 2010.
He was removed by a court judgment that ruled in favour of
the then-candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Kayode Fayemi.
In 2014, he defected to the APC from PDP to support the
second term bid of Fayemi, the incumbent governor of Ekiti.
In 2020, he returned to the PDP.
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