{"id":88251,"date":"2021-11-08T18:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88251"},"modified":"2021-11-08T18:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:13:56","slug":"ekiti-2022-only-popular-candidate-will-guarantee-pdps-victory-%e2%80%95-segun-oni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ekiti-2022-only-popular-candidate-will-guarantee-pdps-victory-%e2%80%95-segun-oni\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti 2022: Only Popular Candidate Will Guarantee PDP\u2019s Victory \u2015 Segun Oni"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1715878629691951793\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former Ekiti State governor, Segun Oni, has called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to gamble with the choice of candidate for the 2022 governorship election.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe governorship aspirant noted that the party should pick a lesson from the choice of popular Charles Soludo by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in the Anambra election, adding that only credible and acceptable candidate would deliver victory for PDP in the June 18, 2022 poll.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by the Director General of his campaign team, Yemi Arokodare, he added that the leadership of the party should be decisive and firm in the build up to the election by bringing all stakeholders together.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nArokodare said: \u201cWhile our party must learn from the outcome of the Anambra governorship elections, and the pattern of voting, it is evident to everyone that Governor Willie Obiano and APGA, who had dipped in popularity in the last two years, deliberately went for a popular candidate in Chukwuma Soludo to keep hope alive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe choice of Soludo has paid off because the people could easily connect with his visible track records and popularity in the state, country and beyond, and Anambrarians decided to give him a chance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a successful convention and the prospects of displacing a fumbling ruling party at the center in 2023, the PDP cannot afford to gamble over the choice of its governorship candidates in Ekiti and Osun States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur party must apply the the sense of purpose and wisdom that guided it in electing the incoming National Working Committee; it must learn from APGA in Anambra, and it must be decisive in bringing all stakeholders together in Ekiti and Osun to take a firm decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described his principal, \u201d as personality with a multi-partisan and non-partisan support-base in Ekiti, and he is the people\u2019s delight any day any time and, they are eagerly awaiting his emergence as the PDP candidate.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ekiti State governor, Segun Oni, has called on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to gamble with the choice of candidate for the 2022 governorship election.&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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