The Senator representing Ekiti South at the National Assembly, Chief Biodun Olujimi has welcomed the return of former Governor, Segun Oni to the Ekiti State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

There won’t be red carpet reception for the former governor of Ekiti State, Segun Oni, when he returns to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), says immediate past governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose.

In her 24 years of checkered political history, Ekiti State has produced four politicians who cannot easily be dismissed. They also have a huge stake in its future political permutations.

Former Governor of Ekiti State, Chief Segun Oni, yesterday said that his supporters across the 16 local councils of the state were treated like leprous people after he helped Governor Kayode Fayemi to win the 2018 governorship election.

Where did the rain start to beat Segun Oni? Once considered the most influential figure in Ekiti All Progressives Congress (APC), Oni, a former governor whose tenure was terminated by the Appeal Court, which replaced him with the incumbent governor Kayode Fayemi in 2010, was the Deputy Chairman, South of the APC before bowing out to contest the primary of the party in May 2018.

The immediate past Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Segun Oni, has been suspended indefinitely from the party. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Oni, who was also a former governor of Ekiti, was suspended over alleged anti-party activities. In a letter dated May 1, 2019, and addressed…

In her 23 years of checkered political life, the history of Ekiti State cannot be told conclusively without recounting the proper place of Segun Oni and Kayode Fayemi. It was their protracted legal battle for the governorship seat that led the state to doing off-cycle governorship election. For a period of seven years (2007- 2014),…

The Court of Appeal yesterday set aside an earlier ruling by the state High Court and upheld the nomination of Kwara State All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. It argued that the state high court lacked powers to entertain any suit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). In a unanimous decision on…

The Federal High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti yesterday dismissed the suit filed by former Governor Segun Oni challenging the eligibility of the incumbent governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the July 14 governorship election. Oni, also an APC aspirant in the election, was challenging Fayemi’s eligibility on…

The Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) may be heading for a major crisis over the option of primaries to be adopted in the election of candidates for the 2019 general elections.

The Ekiti State All Progressives Congress (APC) Elders’ Forum has appealed to Segun Oni to withdraw the suit challenging the eligibility of the governor-elect...

The remains of former Personal Assistant to former Gov. Segun Oni and a Commissioner in the Federal Character Commission (FCC), Bunmi Ojo was on Friday interred in his hometown Ido Ekiti, Headquarters of Ido/Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State.