Ekiti 2022: Segun Oni picks PDP Guber nomination form

Ahead of the June 18, 2022 governorship election in Ekiti State, the former governor of the state, Engr Segun Oni, has obtained the Expression of interest form and the Nomination form on Wednesday, September 22 at the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) National Headquarters in Abuja.

The former governor stormed the party National Headquarters in Abuja at noon to obtain the form.

Oni was represented by his campaign Director General (DG), Hon Yemi Arokodare.

Oni makes the first aspirant obtain the form.

The price for the nomination form has been pegged for N20 million and the expression of interest form will go for N1 million for the governorship aspirants.

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Mr Oni was the governor of the state under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) between May 29, 2007, and October 15, 2010.

He was removed by a court judgement that ruled in favour of the then-candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Kayode Fayemi.

In 2014, the former governor defected to the All Progressives Congress from PDP to support the second term bid of Fayemi, the incumbent governor of Ekiti.

However, in 2020, he returned to the PDP.

Speaking in Abuja immediately after the purchase of the nomination form on behalf of Segun Oni, the Director-General of Oni’s Campaign Organization, Hon. Yemi Arokodare said the people of Ekiti were waiting for the return of Segun.

“We have come to pick the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) nomination form to express Segun Oni’s firm and profound interest to contest and win the party’s primaries and emerge victorious at the governorship election in 2022.

“The people of Ekiti state and party members have been anticipating this epochal moment, which officially validates the interest of Chief Segun Oni in the governorship race.”

Arokodare said the message of Ekiti people to the PDP is very loud and clear, “Segun Oni we know, Segun Oni we want, give us Segun Oni as your candidate and we will do the rest.

“We shall use our votes to deliver and usher in a PDP-led government in Ekiti state. Today, anyone can visit Ekiti state to do a survey and general assessment, the civil servants are waiting, pensioners, farmers, traders, women, and youths are all waiting.

“People living with disabilities are waiting, even the men are waiting. Everyone is waiting for the emergence of Segun Oni as the candidate of the PDP, to elect and crown him as the next governor of the state”.

The DG Campaign explained that the people of Ekiti state once tasted the administration of Chief Segun Oni from 2007-2010. “For them, it is still the best experience in terms of a people-driven government, good governance and open government.”

Arokodare concluded that the popularity and acceptance of Chief Segun Oni in Ekiti State “is very special and unique in its own way, and it is strategic to the PDP winning the governorship seat in 2022.”

Some of the aspirants expected to be obtained PDP nomination form include; current state chairman of the party, Chief Bisi Kolawole; former deputy governor and party’s candidate in the 2018 election, Professor Kolapo Olusola-Eleka; a financial expert, Mr Kayode Adaramodu; an architect, Mr Lateef Ajijola and the party’s national treasurer, Honourable Femi Aribisal and a serving Senator, Biodun Olujimi.

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