As the campaign for the 2022 Ekiti Gubernatorial election draws nearer, a group, Ekiti for Good Governance ,has revealed that the Social Democratic Party, SDP and its Gubernatorial candidate, Engr Segun Oni are facing serious difficulties in raising funds for the election.
Adeolu Alofe, the group Coordinator on Thursday said that due to the rejection witnessed by Segun oni and his campaign team, Ekiti SDP is in a dilemma on how to source funds to run the campaigns.
According to Alofe, available information from the SDP’s recent strategy meeting in Ado Ekiti showed that, there was a major setback as the hope of sourcing campaign funds from public coffers were dashed.
Alofe noted that, “the SDP Gubernatorial Candidate expects the National Body of SDP to provide funds for his campaign.
“The party leaders are in serious difficulties and dilemma on how to source funds to run the Segun Oni Gubernatorial Campaign. Some bigwigs of the party at the national level expect that the candidate, having bought the ticket with millions of Naira should have the financial capacity to run his campaign without necessarily depending on SDP at national.
“With the candidate’s expectation that the party will fund his campaign, it is now clear that they are at crossroads and the chickens have come home to roost.”
“It is now clear to the members of the SDP who were deceived into believing that their Gubernatorial Candidate has a ring of stupendous wealthy people who will finance the campaign is all a mirage, a 419 packaging and that they entered a ‘one chance’ bus.
“As we approach June 18th Gubernatorial election, the electorate are becoming more conscious and aware of the deceitful nature of Engr Segun oni wondering why he had gone to crowdfunding platform to raise money”