APC Suspends Former Ekiti State Governor, Segun Oni

The All Progressives Congress APC has
suspended the immediate past Deputy
National Chairman (South) of the party and
former Ekiti state governor, Segun Oni, from
the party indefinitely over alleged anti-party
activities.
In a letter dated May 1st and addressed to
Oni by the party’s executives in Oni’s Ifami
Ward II, Ekiti, the party said it took the
action over the failure of the party chieftain
to appear before them to clear the
allegations against them. The letter was
signed by the Chairman and Secretary of
Ifaki Ward II, Shina Akinloye and Ogunyemi
Taiwo respectively as well as 24 other
executive members in the ward.
The letter titled ‘Suspension from All
Progressives Congress Ward II, Ifaki Ekiti’
reads:
” Subject to Article 21 Subsections I, II and X
of the APC constitution 2014 as amended.
” We the undersigned executive members of
the APC hereby suspend you indefinitely
from our great party, based on your refusal
to honour our invitation for investigation and
fact finding into the allegation of anti-party
activities leveled against your person by the
members of our party.
“We are by the copy of this letter informing
both the local government and state working
committee of the party for necessary
information and action”.
The faceoff between the former governor
and the party started last year when he
dragged Governor Kayode Fayemi and the
party to court after the May 26, 2018 APC
governorship primary. He had challenged
Fayemi’s emergence as candidate and his
eligibility to participate in the election.
The former governor had insisted that, going
by the constitution of the party, Fayemi ,
being a Minister in the cabinet of President
Muhammadu Buhari ought to have resigned
his post 30 days to the primary.
He had also claimed that Fayemi was not
qualified to contest, alleging that he had
been found guilty of certain offences by a
Judicial Panel of Inquiry set up by former
Gov. Ayo Fayose and which also banned him
from holding public office for 20 years


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