The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in the July 19 governorship election in Ekiti State, Segun Oni, said he left has the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Social Democratic Party, SDP, because the PDP did not respect its own rules.
Oni spoke during a debate in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Sunday.
He declared that his action of moving to the SDP after the PDP guber primary poll was manipulated to deny him.the party’s ticket was not borne out of desperation to become governor.
He said the way the PDP held its governorship primary election in the State made it difficult for him and his supporters to accept the outcome.
“It is not desperation,” Oni said, insisting he did not want to return to power by all means.
Read him: “I do not like cheating. I don’t cheat 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.
“I contested the PDP primaries 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 in every ballot. I detest cheating and don’t collaborate with cheats.”
The 67-year-old ex-governor resigned his membership of the PDP on February 5, about a week after failing to clinch the party’s ticket.
He lost the PDP governorship primary election in Ekiti to Bisi Kolawole, the preferred candidate of Ayodele Fayose, a former governor of the State
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