Mimiko Can’t Control Ondo PDP, Party Chieftain Tells Court

The battle for who controls the Peoples Democratic Party in Ondo State has continued to gather momentum as the state former Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, was yesterday dragged to court over his status as the leader of the party.

Obanla, before Mimiko’s defection, had vowed to take legal action against the former governor, explaining that: “It is a measure to strengthen our democracy in the face of nomadic politicians, whose conscience is so fluid that they can be found in a political party in the morning and change to another by the evening of the same day. Interestingly, the 2017 PDP Constitution envisaged situations of this nature and had made adequate provisions.

In his claim before the court, Obanla sought for “a declaration that Mimiko is not entitled to be accorded the seniority and privileges attendant to his status as a former governor in his membership of Ward Executive Committee, Local Government Executive Committee, State Executive Committee and the National Caucus in that he was not a governor produced by the PDP not having won any governorship election on the party platform.

According to him, Mimiko won the second tenure on the platform of the LP, but towards the end of his second tenure decamped to PDP. He said Mimiko also decamped from PDP in 2017 to ZLP through which he contested the senatorial election in 2019 general elections. He said Mimiko who had not contested election on the PDP platform cannot rejoin the party and assume the position of a leader in the party.

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