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A new crisis has hit the Ekiti State Chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC few weeks to the governorship election to hold in the state.

This is coming as party members loyal to Engr.Segun Oni, a governorship aspirant of the party appears not to have given up on their bitterness over losing the primary election of the party.

Despite pledging to support the candidate of the party, Dr.Kayode Fayemi, the former Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party was alleged to have dragged Dr.Fayemi to court over the governorship ticket of the party.

Although Oni earlier denied knowledge of the suit, his campaign organisation however owned up to have instituted the legal action to seek redress.

Oni in the suit is challenging the candidacy of Dr.Fayemi partly on the ground that he was still a minister when he contested the party’s primary.

The Group also is bittered that its members have been ostracised since their principal lost to Kayode Fayemi in the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Ekiti.

Oni's supporters also accused the Fayemi campaign of non-inclusiveness, maltreatment, and marginalisation.

According to a communiqué released after a meeting in Ado-Ekiti on Friday, the group said the party flagbearer’s camp has demonstrated “open hatred for Segun Oni and his group”.

“The insinuation for all these started before the primary when it was reported that the main reason while Dr. Fayemi joined the race was to prevent a “stranger” like Segun Oni from taking over the APC. Their gospel belief is that Chief Segun Oni, the former Deputy National Chairman (South) for APC is a PDP member who is a stranger to the APC,” the communiqué signed by Ife Arowosoge, director of the organisation, read.

The group said all efforts by Oni and his camp to make Fayemi’s campaign organisation treat them as a united political family has proved abortive.

“It has become more worrisome in that the Fayemi group has continued its acts of marginalization, maltreatment, harassment and intimidation of our members at our party rallies,” the communique read.

“Rather than seeing and treating Segun Oni and his group as partners in the quest for a resounding victory for our great party, APC in the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti, the JKFCO has been nursing the fleeting illusion that they could do it without the Segun Oni and his group who shall therefore be put in the cooler for the four-year tenure of Fayemi.”

The group said it has it on good authority that all the incoming elective positions have been allocated to Fayemi’s cronies and the new joiners without recourse to Oni and his supporters.

Confirming the legal action against Dr.Fayemi, the group said, “we unanimously resolved to support the fore-sighted legal action instituted by the Segun Oni group as this will not only prevent the party from not being part of the governorship election but very importantly strengthens the rule of law and our democracy in Nigeria. Also, the legal action will defend our rights, privileges and interests within the party”.

The main purpose of the court action, the group said, is to rescue the party at the state level.

However, major chieftains of the party in the South-West region have reiterated their support for the candidature of Dr.Fayemi.

The Party chieftains which included Bola Tinubu, Bisi Akande, Segun Osoba, Niyi Adebayo and Pius Akinyelure reaffirmed their backing of Fayemi in an advertorial on Friday.

They urged Oni to dissociate himself from the alleged suit asking the court to revoke the candidacy of Fayemi.

They said Fayemi has fulfilled all necessary requirements for the election.

“For the avoidance of doubt, we the undersigned leaders remain solidly behind the candidacy of Kayode Fayemi,” the advertorial published on Nigerian Tribune read.

“We have stood behind Kayode Fayemi’s candidacy since he won the governorship primaries ".

The chieftains recalled how they had a meeting with the aspirants who lost the primary election, and suggested that Fayemi run an effective and inclusive campaign that will ultimately lead to an all-inclusive government.

They also demanded the immediate withdrawal of the purported court action.

Meanwhile, Hon.Bamidele Opeyemi, director of the Fayemi governorship campaign, had on Thursday said, “the doors of the party are wide open to entertain complaints and trash them in the interest of everybody”.

Suanu's Blog recalls that Engr.Segun Oni had the second highest number of votes at the APC Governorship Primary Election.

Source: http://www.suanusblog.com/2018/06/fresh-crisis-hits-ekiti-state-chapter.html?m=1

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