Mimiko is set to rejoin the PDP after quitting it in 2016. Analysts say it may not be unconnected to the permutation for Aso Rock
By Julius Alabi, Akure
Four Governors under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are currently meeting the former governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko at his Ondo residence.
The Governors are Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Aminu Tambuwal, Sokoto and Okezie Ikpeazu, (Abia).
TheNiche gathered that the meeting has to do with the decision of Governor Mimiko who is planning to return to the PDP in no distant time
At the meeting are former deputy governor, Agboola Ajayi, three members of the Ondo state House of Assembly, Rasheed Elegbeleye, Tomide Akinribido, Festus Akingbaso, former speaker, Jumoke Akindele, former chief Judge, Olaseinde Kumuyi and deputy governorship Candidate of ZLP in the 2020 election, Gboye Adegbenro.
Others include former House of Reps member, Joseph Akinlaja, ex-governorship aspirant, Banji Okunomo, as well as Dr Kola Ademujimi, Eni Akinsola, John-Paul Akinduro, Andrew Ogunsakin, Ayo Fadoju, Afolabi Akinsiku, Bolanle Olafunmiloye, Funmilola Oluwadare, Taye Afilaka among other top former senior aides to Mimiko.
The meeting is being held behind closed doors.
Mimiko had in 2014, defected to the PDP, a party he had left in 2007 after losing its gubernatorial primaries.
He became governor on the platform of the Labour Party (LP).
But in 2014, Mimiko, along with 25 members of the Ondo state House of Assembly, announced their membership of the PDP at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He had said then that his defection was in the best interest of the people of Ondo state in particular and the nation in general.
He had said: “I must confess that it surely was tempting and perhaps more fulfilling to continue as a national leader in our smaller, calmer and quite promising ocean represented by the Labour Party. But this decision to return to the PDP, we have taken in the overall interest of our people and our nation, and its democracy which for those who are perceptive enough to notice, is now mortally endangered by a constellation of forces which must be confronted.”
Mimiko later left the PDP for Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).
