Mimiko

He said “Mimiko will formally join LP on Thursday, June 14, 2018, though I am not authorised to announce this but I can confirm to you that Mimiko will dump PDP any moment from now.

Akeredolu would have finished the two terms of the North District after Dr Olusegun Mimiko had concluded the two terms for the Central District in 2017.

Also, many APC members have been disappointed with the governor for his romance with a former governor and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leader in the state, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, and the seeming overbearing influence of the ex-governor in his government.

Thus, Adefarati chose Afolabi Iyantan from the South; Agagu chose Oluwatuyi from the Centre, and Mimiko chose Olanusi and later xxx, both from the North.

Sources in the PDP confirmed to our reporter that some of the party’s chieftains from Ondo South were already in talks with Governor Oluwarotimi while others including Ajayi met with former Governor Olusegun Mimiko, leader of the Zenith Labour Party.

This is without prejudice to other commendable palliatives like cash transfers, trader Moni etc. Alignment of data base, I am assured, will quickly ensure nobody benefits twice,” Mimiko said.

Fielding questions from newsmen, Mimiko said much emphasis is being put on foreign manpower for the execution of capital projects in the country when Nigeria has more than enough professionals who can do better jobs, faster and cheaper.

Former governor Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has emerged the presidential primary election of the Zenith Labour Party(ZLP).

He argued that it was not the best time for Mimiko to leave the PDP, stressing that the reasons given by the former governor for dumping the main opposition party in the country were not cogent.

He said it would be in the best interest of Mimiko not to leave the party.

He said the party would approach the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw Mimiko’s name and file same for the Senate.

Meanwhile, I was following the guided script of the Iroko of Nigerian politics, the master political strategist, Olusegun Mimiko.

Mimiko, who became Ondo State governor in 2009 on the platform of the LP, had left the party for the PDP in 2014 in order to support the ruling party then.

National Chairman of the party, Dr Mike Omotoso, said in a statement in Abuja that Mimiko was free to return to the party as being rumoured.

The presidential candidate of the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Olusegun Mimiko last Monday raised an alarm over threat to the unity of the country under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.