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EKITI 2018: Obasanjo rigged me out for Segun Oni, APC disappointed me, but I will be governor – Yinka Akerele vanguardngr.com Jun 3, 2018 1:37 AM •‘Why I moved to DPP’ By Dayo Johnson,  Regional Editor, South-West. YINKA Akerele is believed in many quarters to have won the 2006 governorship primary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ekiti State but was denied of the ticket by then President Olusegun Obasanjo who gave it to Engr. Segun Oni, who allegedly came third. The man fondly called Ajinde Ekiti contested the recent governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) alongside 32 others, including Dr Kayode Fayemi, who emerged the winner. Akerele, in this interview, calls the primary a sham and has now defected to the Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, to contest the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti. Yinka Akerele You contested for the ticket of the PDP ahead of the Ekiti governorship poll in 2006 and disappeared subsequently. What ha...