By: Admin
AKURE, South-West, Nigeria – Former governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, has debunked the news making the rounds that he has ditched Governors Nyesom Wike, Seyi Makinde and their colleague governors, and abandoned the agitation for regional equity within the PDP.
Even as Mimiko rejected the inclusion of his name in the campaign team of the People’s Democratic Party, (PDP) to ensure victory of the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar ahead of 2023 election.
This is contained in a statement by the former governor’s Special Assistant on Media and Digital Communication, John Akinduro, and made available to newsmen in Akure on Wednesday.
“Olusegun Rahman Mimiko has been inundated with calls and messages from the general public, and his political friends and concerned individuals around the nation; and in particular, his teeming supporters across the length and breadth of Ondo State, seeking clarity on a fake news making the rounds since yesterday that he had ditched Governors Nyesom Wike, Seyi Makinde and their colleagues governors, and abandoned the agitation for regional equity within the PDP; and in particular, making a party member of southern extraction its national chairman before the 2023 election.
“The report and the list that triggered it, are fake and a deliberate attempt to muddle things up and smear Olusegun Rahman Mimiko.
“It must be stated with emphasis that Mimiko was neither consulted by anyone nor consented to his inclusion in any Ondo state PDP Presidential Campaign Council list.
“For the avoidance of doubt and to set the record straight, Mimiko is unwavering in his commitment to the principle of equity, fairness and justice through which he believes a credible push for a PDP victory is possible.
“He fully subscribes to the agitation by his colleagues and other stakeholders in PDP and the generality of Nigerians that the PDP structure must reflect Nigeria’s diversity, if it genuinely wants to unify a visibly divided country,” the statement reads.
Sources close to the Wike’s group asserted that Mimiko is the one which the group is fronting to be the National Chairman of the PDP.