Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, a former governor of Ondo State and a well-known supporter of the group of aggrieved party officials who support Governor Nyesom Wike’s cause, opposed the appointment of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the State’s Presidential Campaign Council on Wednesday.
Mimiko said in a statement released in Akure, the state capital, by his Special Assistant on Media and Digital Communications, John Paul Akinduro, that he continued to support Nyesome Wike, the governor of Rivers State, in his campaign to have Dr. Iyorchia Ayu, the party’s national chairman, ousted. He asserted that neither he nor anybody else gave their agreement for him to be included on any list created by the State’s PDP Presidential Campaign Council.
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He claims that “Dr. Olusegun Mimiko has been inundated with calls and messages from the general public, his political allies, and concerned citizens across 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 abandoned the campaign for regional equity within the federal government.”
“The report and the list that triggered it, are fake and a deliberate attempt to muddle things up and smear Dr. Olusegun Mimiko.
“It must be stated with emphasis that Dr. 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, Dr 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.”
