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Ekiti 2022: Oni’s Dream Suffers Holdback as Fayose, Olujimi Settle Rift

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3 years ago

Jan 2, 2022.

The governorship aspiration of former governor of Ekiti State, Engr Segun Oni, suffers a holdback as Fayose and Olujimi settle rift

EKOHOTBLOG Reports that Oni’s governorship dream may have suffered a setback as the two contending groups in the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), the Osoko Political Assembly led by former Governor Ayo Fayose and another (Repositioning Group) led by the Senator representing Ekiti South, Biodun Olujimi have resolved not to support his ambition.

It was disclosed to newsmen that the two groups reasoned that Oni just returned to the party from the APC and he was not part of the Ekiti PDP Congresses and litigations and therefore does not have any structure to support his ambition.

“Having failed to realize the governorship ambition in the APC that he decamped to eight years ago, he can’t come to the PDP to reap where he did not sow,” the source said Oni was told at the Lagos meeting.

The Fayose and Olujimi led groups have settled their rift and are said to have now resolved to support any candidate from either of their groups.

A Credible source disclosed that following the directive of the PDP National Chairman, Senator Iyorchia Ayu and other leaders of the party, a seven-man committee, comprising of Fayose and two persons from his group as well as Olujimi and two persons from her group met in Lagos last Monday. Oni was said to have been allowed to attend the meeting as an observer.

The source said that at the Lagos meeting, the two groups said in his (Oni) presence that “he is on his own as far as his governorship ambition is concerned.”

However, it was gathered that a meeting will be held in Abuja tomorrow, January 3 where report of settlement between the two groups will be presented to the party leadership. The meeting was earlier fixed for December 29, 2021, but was shifted to January 3.

Meanwhile, Ex-Ekiti Gov, Segun Oni in his reaction, dissociates his Campaign Structures from the emerging campaigns of calumny and blackmails geared towards the governorship polls later in 2022.

Oni stated disclosed that he has no rift with the leading PDP leaders in Ekiti State, ex-Gov Fayose and Senator Olujimi, and therefore would not engage in campaigns inimical to PDP chances in the coming polls.

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