From Rasaq Ibrahim, Ado-Ekiti
Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State Seyi Osekita has said ex-governor Segun Oni’s defection to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won’t affect the party’s electoral fortune.
Osekita, who was the Alliance for Democracy (AD) governorship candidate in 2014, said Oni has no political structure that can overrun the APC, as well as the combined forces of Governor Kayode Fayemi and Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment Niyi Adebayo’s political machinery.
He spoke to reporters in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday, saying Oni was only desperate to be governor, but he will be disappointed by those who lured him back to PDP.
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Osekita said: “We will not have sleepless nights over Oni’s defection because with Governor Kayode Fayemi’s performance in road and water infrastructure, education, social investment and strong economic programmes, it will be difficult for PDP to win Ekiti in 2022.
“100s of Oni can’t defeat Fayemi in any election. Even if I am put on the same ballot with him, he can’t defeat me, let alone a big and performing party like APC.
PDP is dead in Ekiti and no one can resurrect it. Governor Fayemi is building on the good foundation he laid during his first term, and all Ekiti indigenes home and abroad must support him.”
He described Oni’s allegations that his loyalists were being discriminated against and ostracised in the APC as calling ‘a dog a bad name in order to hang it’.
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