Former governor of Ekiti State and governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief Segun Oni, has berated his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Bisi Kolawole, for referring to him as a nomadic politician.

Kolawole had while featuring on a radio programme last Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti vilified Oni for defecting from PDP to SDP, describing the SDP candidate as a nomadic politician.

A statement by spokesman of the Ekiti Build Back Better (EBBB), a group campaigning for the actualisation of the governorship ambition of the SDP candidate, which was signed by its spokesman, Idowu Adelusi yesterday, lambasted Kolawole, telling him that his comment was uncharitable.

Adelusi said the decision and eventual movement of Oni to the SDP was not about himself, but the collective decision of the Ekiti people, saying: “Previous attempts at a third force in Ekiti failed because the situation then did not call for it.”

The EBBB spokesman said that winning the election with the third force by Oni, and other contestants riding on the popularity of Oni to sweep the poll, will surprise the likes of Kolawole in the PDP and APC.

He said Oni’s ambition was the Ekiti people’s project and that it was “thoroughly understood with the influx of supporters of Oni from the PDP and the APC into the SDP, aside the army of supporters among government workers, pensioners, artisans, traders, teachers, professionals and students.”

He, therefore, urged the PDP candidate to come to term with the reality that Oni has left his party.