EX-EKITI GOVERNOR SEGUN ONI DISPUTES BACKING TINUBU FOR PRESIDENT.

Segun Oni, a former governor of Ekiti State, has denied supporting Bola Tinubu’s campaign for president of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

This was said in a statement released on Friday in Ado-Ekiti by Jackson Adebayo, Director of Media and Publicity for the Segun Oni Campaign Organization.

A claim that Mr. Oyetunde Ojo and the South West Agenda were collaborating with former governor Ayo Fayose to actualize Tinubu’s presidential campaign was referred to by Oni, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) candidate in the most recent governorship election in Ekiti, as “a very dishonest statement and a cheap lie.”

He claimed that nothing could force him to work for Tinubu and that Tinubu’s involvement in the previous Ekiti Governorship race was clearly manipulated.

Recall that the SWAGA chairman asserted on Thursday that former governors of Ekiti state Fayose and Segun Oni, as well as several South-West political heavyweights from both sides of the aisle, believed in Tinubu’s cause.

Ojo asserted that many of the power players who had been working behind the scenes would come out in support of Tinubu in an effort to secure his victory and win over additional supporters.

The SWAGA head spoke at a session to bolster the group’s door-to-door and house-to-house campaign for the APC presidential candidate in Ado Ekiti, the capital of the Ekiti State.

Dismissing this, Oni cautioned people against testing his tolerance beyond what was reasonable and said he could think of reasons why the person who made the allegation might have included him (Oni) and Fayose in the business of carrying out such tasks.