The Action Congress of Nigeria, Oyo State chapter, has warned the Peoples Democratic Party National Vice Chairman, South West, Engineer Segun Oni, against polluting what it called “the rivers of peace” which it said the ACN-led government in the state had been able to bring about since its advent.
The ACN made this known in a release signed by its state Publicity Secretary, Hon. Dauda Kolawole.
According to the party, the many visits of Oni to the state was principally to stoke crises and bring back Oyo State to “the unenviable position it occupied during the regime of former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala.”
The former Ekiti State governor was in Oyo State again on Tuesday to meet with some feuding groups of the PDP in the state, the ACN said in the statement.
The ACN described Oni’s frequent visits to the state within two weeks as an indication that the PDP was planning to foment trouble, warning that the people of the state, who value the peace they now enjoy, would resist any attempt to bring them back to what the party referred to as “our Egypt days”.
The ACN, which decried the nomination of Oni for the post he now occupies in the PDP, said that his appointment was an indication that the PDP was devoid of men of honour.
The ACN said: “Oni is a testimony to the fact that there is a scarcity of men of honour and integrity left in the PDP.
“Here was a man who was bundled out of office by the court for illegally occupying the governorship seat of Ekiti State for 24 months.
“To worsen it, the man has not found it expedient, as every honourable man will, to return the salaries and perks he collected illegally from government for this usurpation of a governor’s function and office.
“In the eye of the law, Oni was never governor of Ekiti State and his tenure a mere aberration.
“It is a shame that it was this same man that the PDP found worthy for recycling and to come rescue its sagging honour in the South West.”