Olusegun Oni (born 5 September 1954) is a Nigerian politician who served as governor of Ekiti State[1][2] from 29 May 2007 to 17 February 2009 and from 6 May 2009 to 15 October 2010.
In 2014 he defected from the PDP and joined the newly formed opposition party All Progressive Congress (APC) where He was given the position of Deputy National Chairman South from 2014 to 2020.
[11] Apart from violence, adding to the controversy was the conduct of the electoral commissioner who initially refused to announce the results of the re-run election.
"The electoral commissioner was supposed to announce poll results last week after the initial re-run but refused to do so, alleging fraud, and temporarily went into hiding".
[14][15] He was removed from office on 15 October following the Judgement of the Appeal Court which ruled against him in favour of his opponent Kayode Fayemi.