Former Governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni said he has left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said the move became necessary due to ill-treatment from the party to himself and his supporters.
Recall that Oni, who left PDP for APC in 2014, is a former National Deputy Chairman (South-West) of APC.
But he said the APC denied himself and his supporters the privileges of being members, including appointments and opportunities to contest elections.
He said his supporters clamoured for him to return to the PDP and he had no choice but to listen to them.
The ex-governor, who spoke in Ado-Ekiti on Monday, said, “You all knew the kind of treatment I have been getting.
“As we speak, none of my supporters was allowed to get an appointment or contest elections in APC.
“If the APC gives me the whole world, I won’t be happy seeing an integral part of my political life, I mean my supporters being treated badly.
“At a particular time, I was suspended in my ward at Ifaki Ekiti and nothing was said about it. I am the Asiwaju of this town, if someone could have the effrontery to do that to me here, you could see it had sent a signal that there was a problem.
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“It is not about Segun Oni, my people and supporters are the main issues.”
Oni said he has commenced the process of engaging critical PDP stakeholders in state like ex-Governor Ayodele Fayose and Sen. Biodun Olujimi.
“We have taken a decision and we are in the process of joining the PDP. We are going to set up an implementation committee to work on our programme of action. Our joining PDP is not something that won’t take three months.
“I am not that kind of a politician that will rush at things; we can’t just go back that way. There must be proper planning. We are carrying out the local government by local government counting of those that will follow us.
“Those who took the action were my supporters across all the local governments and 177 wards, who felt bad about the whole scenario in APC.
“But the major thing is that we are moving; we have decided to go back and on that we are working on,” Oni added.