Governor Olusegun Mimiko
Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, on
Tuesday, lashed out at members of the Ondo State Peoples Democratic Party
executive, saying nobody can force him out of the party.
It was his first reaction to the contention raised by his defection to the party, particularly as it affects power sharing in the state executive committee.
While addressing the party’s youth leaders from different parts of the country led by the National Youth Leader of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Maibasira, in Akure, Mimiko said he was not in the party to create crisis, but to add value to it.
Referring to the accusations by the state executive council that he had come to disorganise the party, the governor said discipline must be maintained for the PDP to be able to win elections in 2015.
According to him, there is the need to ensure the enforcement of decisions reached at the highest level of the party.
He said, “I am back in this party. I have made the move and nobody is going to force me out of the PDP again. If anybody thinks he will create crisis and I will get angry and leave, they are just wasting time. Let us come together and build this party, discipline must be maintained.
“No party will survive without party discipline, a party that takes a decision and cannot enforce it is not a party. A situation where decisions are taken at the highest level, chaired by the Senate President, and some party members went to court to challenge such decisions is unacceptable.
“I have not come to PDP to be part of crisis. I have come to add value. I am not coming into PDP on the eve of a second term election and that is part of what we should consider. I have no second term ambition, there is no Senate available for me, I have only come to add value.
The governor added that his counterparts in Abia, Bauchi, and Zamfara states defected to the PDP and were given the structure of the party but all he asked for is comfort for those he brought to the party.
It was his first reaction to the contention raised by his defection to the party, particularly as it affects power sharing in the state executive committee.
While addressing the party’s youth leaders from different parts of the country led by the National Youth Leader of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Maibasira, in Akure, Mimiko said he was not in the party to create crisis, but to add value to it.
Referring to the accusations by the state executive council that he had come to disorganise the party, the governor said discipline must be maintained for the PDP to be able to win elections in 2015.
According to him, there is the need to ensure the enforcement of decisions reached at the highest level of the party.
He said, “I am back in this party. I have made the move and nobody is going to force me out of the PDP again. If anybody thinks he will create crisis and I will get angry and leave, they are just wasting time. Let us come together and build this party, discipline must be maintained.
“No party will survive without party discipline, a party that takes a decision and cannot enforce it is not a party. A situation where decisions are taken at the highest level, chaired by the Senate President, and some party members went to court to challenge such decisions is unacceptable.
“I have not come to PDP to be part of crisis. I have come to add value. I am not coming into PDP on the eve of a second term election and that is part of what we should consider. I have no second term ambition, there is no Senate available for me, I have only come to add value.
The governor added that his counterparts in Abia, Bauchi, and Zamfara states defected to the PDP and were given the structure of the party but all he asked for is comfort for those he brought to the party.