Contrary to earlier reports, the governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko has described his reported plan to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as “a rumour”.
“I don’t want to react to that because it is a mere rumour,” the governor told newsmen after the National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the Labour Party, LP, in Abuja on Wednesday, 10 September, 2014.
Mimiko, however, stated that he would support President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 presidential election if the president decides to run.
Commenting on the matter while declaring the NEC meeting open, the National Chairman of LP, Dan Nwanyanwu, rubbished reports that Mimiko was planning to leave the party.
Nwanyanwu said the party was not aware of the move and that the governor would not have attended the meeting if he had such a plan.
“You have seen him (Mimiko) here. As I’m talking to you, he is still a bonafide member of the Labour Party,” he said.
“We don’t have to base everything on speculation. You can see that he is here and we have discussed everything concerning the Labour Party together. He is here live and direct,” Nwanyanwu added.
The party boss, who said he would step down as the national chairman of LP, informed that the party’s national convention would hold on 4 October, 2014.
It would be recalled that Governor Mimiko was a former member of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, and had served as Health Commissioner in the administration of late Governor Adebayo Adefarati between 1999 and 2003.
During the administration of late Olusegun Agagu in Ondo state, Mimiko defected to the PDP and served as Secretary to the deceased governor.
Mimiko was later appointed the Minister of Housing. He however resigned his ministerial position and defected to the LP to contest the Ondo state governorship election in 2007 which he won. The governor was re-elected in 2012.
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