Governor Olusegun Mimiko Joins PDP

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State

 Less than five months before the 2015 general elections, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State has dumped the Labour Party, LP, to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

The Governor made the formal declaration at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday, 2 October, 2014 at an event presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo.

Punch reports that Mimiko led two members of the National Assembly from Ondo state, all the 26 members of the state House of Assembly, all members of the State Executive Council and his supporters to the PDP. Continue after the cut...

Speaking at the occasion, Mimiko told the gathering that included the President of the Senate David Mark, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and leaders of the PDP from the South-West that: “I, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, following extensive consultations across the land, today finally announce the decision of members of the National Assembly from the LP in Ondo State, members of the LP in the Ondo State, members of the LP in the Ondo State House of Assembly, members of the State Executive Council and indeed all those who share our aspirations, to join the PDP.”

The governor, who was in the PDP before the 2007 governorship election, said he took the decision to return to PDP in the overall interest of his people and the nation.