Oni’s ex-Chief of Staff denies dumping PDP for APC

Barrister Segun Ilori, a former Chief of Staff to former Governor Segun Oni, who is the Deputy National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, has debunked reports that he had defected from the Peoples Democratic Party to the APC.
Ilori said: “That report was a figment of the writers’s imagination.”
Ilori, who reacted to the report in a statement on Friday, said he remained committed to the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan’s transformation agenda.
He said; “I am a member of the Goodluck Support Group and a strong believer in the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan, therefore I can never join the APC.
“As at yesterday, I held several meetings with PDP leaders in Ekiti State on tomorrow’s election, and I am presently in Orin-Ekiti, my hometown, working assiduously for PDP to win the election.
“It is therefore the figment of imagination of The Nation newspaper and its reporters that I have decamped to the APC, because leaving PDP for APC is not an option I can ever consider.”
Speaking further, Ilori, who recently won a N750 million against a national newspaper, said: “The way The Nation newspaper goes about lying against anyone they see as opposing the political interest of its owner should worry Nigerians, especial stakeholders in the media.”