Ex-Ondo Gov, Olusegun Mimiko, Joins APC

Fidelis David in Akure

Former Ondo State governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, yesterday, joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), at his Ward 7, Ondo West Local Government Area Secretariat in Ondo town.

Mimiko, who had before now resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was received by the Ward Executive of the Party, the Local Government Executive, and the State Chairman of the party, Hon Kolawole Babatunde as well as party faithful from within Ondo City.

“There are a lot of good things being done by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led government, and though much more will still have to be done, I am coming in to lend my support to ongoing efforts to keep Nigeria on the path of peace, progress and genuine development.

“The NELFUND initiative to democratise access to education is another commendable effort of Mr. President, which must be applauded and for an avowed supporter of state police like myself current effort to decentralise policing as being pursued is another reason I am happy to be part of the current effort under Mr. President,” Mimiko said after formally joining the party.

While many of Mimiko’s close associates had moved to the APC before the last governorship election in Ondo State, he remained within the PDP, though playing little or no active part until his resignation more than a month ago.

Putting in his resignation, he said he had to clear speculations and inquiries about his status, saying having been somewhat distanced from party activities, he was putting it on record that he was “no longer a member of the PDP.”

Welcoming  Mimiko on behalf of the governor and other members of the party in the state, Babatunde, said Mimiko was a progressive in all ramifications, having posted remarkable results in health, education, infrastructure and so many other areas of life, in and out of office.

“Mimiko is a progressive all through and his coming into the APC is like a homecoming,” he said.

Also speaking, a former Member of the House of Representatives, representing Ondo East and West Federal Constituency, Hon. Joseph Iranola Akinlaja, said the arrival of Mimiko into the APC climaxed the full and final movement of the Mimiko political movement into the APC in Ondo State.