‘We Don’t Want You,’ Labour Party Rejects Mimiko’s Return

The Labour Party, LP, has said plans by the former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, to return to the party will be rejected.

National chairman of the party, Mike Omotosho, said this on Wednesday during a press conference in Abuja, titled “Once Bitten, Twice Shy – Nigerian Workers Reject Plans by Olusegun Mimiko To Return to Labour Party”.

The party said Mimiko planned on destabilising the party, adding that his sole purpose of the planned return is to use the workers’ party to launder his sagging political image.

“Nigeria would recall that Dr. Mimiko abandoned the Labour party for the People’s Democratic party a few days to Labour Party’s October 2015 National Convention,” the statement read.

“The Nigeria Labour Congress wishes to disown and condemn recent posturing and proclamation by some politicians in Ekiti state.

“Workers and the Ekiti electorate should not allow themselves to be hoodwinked by the antics of political impostors,” he said.

Recall that Mimiko on Wednesday dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, saying his reasons for resigning from the party were “personal” and “well thought-out.”

“I hereby with utmost humility inform you of my decision to resign my membership of the PDP with effect from today, June 13, 2018 for some well thought-out personal reasons,” the former two term governor, said.

Mimiko came into office in 2009 on the platform of the LP and was re-elected in 2012.

He, however, moved the entire structure of the party to the PDP on the exigencies of the 2015 presidential election.