Abuja— The governor of Ondo State,
Olusegun Mimiko yesterday afternoon pitched his political camp with the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, ending several weeks of speculation over his political
future.
The governor who announced his
formal defection at the banquet hall of the Presidential Villa after a
reconciliation meeting of the South West PDP chaired by the President of the
Senate, Senator David Mark said he was moving to the PDP in order to galvanise
support for President Jonathan’s re-election in the South-West zone of the
country.
.VICE PRESIDENT NAMADI SAMBO (L),
PRESENTING PDP FLAG TO GOV. OLUSEGUN MIMIKO OF ONDO STATE, WHO DEFECTED TO THE
PARTY IN ABUJA ON THURSDAY (2/10/14).
Dr. Olusegun Mimiko was formally
received into the PDP by the Vice President Namadi Sambo at an occasion
witnessed by the Chief of Staff to the President, Jones Arogbofa, former
governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel; Senator Bode Olajumoke and Olu
Agunloye.
According to Mimiko members of the
National Assembly and State House of Assembly from Ondo State on the Labour
Party have also defected with him to the PDP.
He reiterated that “by this decision to return to the PDP, we have taken in the
overall interest of our people and our nation, and its democracy which for
those who are perceptive enough to notice, is now mortally endangered by a
constellation of forces which must be confronted.”
The Ondo governor observed that
though the Labour Party endorsed, worked for and voted massively for Jonathan
since 2011, this did not stop the Party from working for candidates where
it fielded candidates and in subsequent polls.
According to the governor, with the
2015 table for elections released by the Independent National Electoral
Commission, INEC, which put Presidential and National Assembly elections on the
same day, his remaining in Labour Party while supporting President
Jonathan would create conflict of interest.
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