BREAKING: Segun Oni dumps PDP, may join APGA Tuesday to contest Ekiti gov poll

The former Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni and first runner-up in the just-concluded governorship primaries of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn his membership from the party.

The spokesman of Segun Oni Movement, Jackson Adebayo confirmed this to newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on Saturday.

Adebayo stated the decision of Oni and thousands of supporters to leave PDP was taken at stakeholders’ meeting at Oni’s residence in Ifaki-Ekiti, Ido/ Osi Local Government Area.

Oni, has however not indicated the party he would be pitching a tent with.

But speculations are rife that the Ex-Governor may join the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to contest the governorship poll.

But Jackson Adebayo stated that the Ex-Governor would unveil on Tuesday the new party where his name would be listed before the close of substitution for the June 18 governorship election.

He stated that Oni yielded to pressures from the overwhelming majority of Ekiti people who are desirous of returning him back to the Government House under any political party.

The former PDP Publicity Secretary hinted that Oni would be leaving the PDP with a sizeable number of members, adding his resignation from the party is with immediate effect.

“Engr. Segun Oni has finally resigned from PDP. All the people of Ekiti has decided that they want Segun Oni on any platform. And he had harkened to the calls.

“In fact, it was the image of Oni that has been promoting the image of PDP in Ekiti State. And once he the PDP has decided to kill itself we have to take a bow and leave.

“Ekiti people will not leave Oni alone to go like that because they can’t see any other person that can deliver what Oni has been doing for them.

“So, it is the voice of the people and not the voice of anybody. As it is now, both PDP and APC will be contesting against the people of Ekiti. And the symbol of the people of Ekiti State is Engr. Oni”, Jackson said.

Former Director of Segun Oni Campaign Organisation, Hon. Lanre Ogunsuyi said the former Governor’s exit was informed by a high degree of injustice melted to Oni by some powerful forces in the party during the January 26, primary election.

“We have just said bye bye to PDP and oga (Segun Oni) thanked all the people that worked with him and dissolved all the structures that ran the purported primary in PDP.

“What we have now is a confluence of people called Segun Oni Movement. By next week, we should have sorted ourselves out in line with INEC timetable.

“It is normal to speculate about politicians especially a politician of Oni’s stature. He is a former Governor and he has just left PDP. What is certain is that we have left PDP but we are not certain about where we are going.”

Oni was defeated by Bisi Kolawole, who is now the PDP candidate, in the party’s governorship primary which was held in Ado Ekiti on January 26.

The former PDP governor, who left the party for the APC in 2014, returned in 2019.

Although Ogunsuyi did not disclose the party to which Oni was defecting, insinuations were rife that Oni had concluded arrangement to fly the flag of the All Progressives Grand Alliance for the governorship election.

The former campaign spokesperson said, “What we have now is a confluence of people called Segun Oni Movement. By next week, we should have sorted ourselves out and know where we (party) are going in line with Independent National Electoral Commission timetable”.

Reacting to speculations that Oni had joined APGA, Ogunsuyi said, “It is normal to speculate about politicians, especially a politician of Segun Oni’s stature. He is a former governor and he has just left the PDP. What is certain is that we have left the PDP, but we are not certain about where we are going”.

The former commissioner said that Oni left “because the PDP is a cult. Segun Oni has been consistent in the search for truth, truth in Nigerian politics means you will be persecuted and all that has been happening. When you are consistently in the search for truth and fair play, those things have no value in Nigerian politics”.

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