Eje ki a pa enu po and condemn violence in our electioneering processes. Segun Oni at one point in the past was a beneficiary of election rigging and manipulations.
Even the court of the land corroborated this. Yet, Ekiti was not turned into a theatre of war or allowed conflagration akin to the event of 1983.
It is completely inaccurate for CSO to be shouting and insinuating rigging despite full digitalisation of the election process at this point, instead of going to people to beg for their votes.
Segun Oni, to me, is still illusive and psychologically hooked up to his inglorious past.
In the 2018 APC primary election, he claimed he was rigged out and went up to the Supreme Court and came back empty-handed.
History also beckoned in the 2021 PDP primary, as CSO claimed he was rigged out. In a yet-to-be-conducted governorship election, CSO is already shouting and threatening violence, fire, war and brimstone that heaven will let loose if he is rigged out.
To me, I think what Segun Oni was indirectly canvassing for was that the contest should be patterned in a way that he will be sole candidate and wins unchallenged, so that he can automatically be declared a governor of Ekiti State. This is my takeaway from his hoopla and recent outbursts. This depicts highest point of dictatorship .
A source who had worked with Segun Oni in the past corroborated my position, he told me that if there was anything Segun Oni fears most, it is a free, fair, and close-competitive election.
His former ally said: “Oni would have loved just being pronounced as Governor without going through all the crucible and rigours of elections. That’s why he makes more noise at a time like this.
“That has been his style and tradition. Has he ever won any election without being unwarrantedly put in a vantage position before? The answer is capital No. Oni and his followers are mere noisemakers and not real Democrats,” the source said.
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