The Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate for Ekiti 2022 governorship election, Engr Segun Oni has described former governor Ayodele Fayose as a crooked and Lord of the Manor
Segun Oni stated this in an exclusive interview published by Punch Newspaper.
Oni who defected to SDP after losing PDP primary election said his new party will win July election.
While responding to reporter’s question on influence of Fayose in PDP- “Going by that and the outcome of the primary, will you agree with those saying that everything shows that former governor Ayodele Fayose is more sophisticated and more grassroots-oriented than you?, Segun Oni said: “If somebody could steal, is that sophistication? It that sophistication or crookedness? At times, we allow crooks to have their way because we call them smart. There is nothing smart in crookedness.”
“The night before the primary, we accredited about 650 people, who believed that I was their preference. And by the time we got to the voting point where people were instructed to show their votes to a Lord of the Manor, many of them chickened out. You can’t blame them; what is the status of these people compared to that of the former governor? Do you want them to develop the kind of inner strength they don’t have overnight? The person who created the voting system and called it a secret ballot protected the votes and the voter. So, I believe that we must have lost at least 300 votes to the fact that the secret was removed from the primary election and there was nothing we could do about it.” He explained