The leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) had been told to perish the thought of annexing Ondo State to its empire, the Mimiko Campaign Organisation has stated. It adduced expansionist tendency and the refusal of Dr Olusegun Mimiko to allow them have access to the funds of the State as the major reasons for their desperation to annex Ondo State and not any integration of the South West as they want the world to know.

MCO which spoke against the brickbats being bandied by the ACN leaders in the wake of their rallies in the State noted that Lagos State which they are ever wont to showcase as the template for good governance is not better managed than Ondo State.

The MCO in a release issued by its Director of Publicity and Media Relations, Mr Kolawole Olabisi, said it took exceptions to the invectives not only against the person of the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko but against the psyche of the Ondo man and woman from supposedly Yoruba elders in their vaunted quest to conquer the State saying that such remarks were anachronistic and a negation of the Omoluabi ethos the Yoruba are noted for.

“Let us remind them that by their gutter languages akin to that taken from the parlance of area boys, those who are supposed to be sagacious elders have thrown decorum to the dogs because they want to rule Ondo State by force by fire and annex it to their empire as they have shamelessly stated publicly.

The truth is that they wanted Ondo State to be added like a feather to their treasure throve. And because Dr Olusegun Mimiko refused to allow them to lay their hands on Ondo funds, those who profess to be elders now practically dance naked in public hauling abuses and saying things which area boy would naturally flinch from on a man who had shown restraint and respect for them by not replying them.

“Let it be told that in Ondo State, we have had four (4) bye-elections including the last election for President, National and State Assemblies and ACN lost woefully by coming a distant third in all of these elections. Those occurrences in all the four elections could only mean one thing; that CAN is not on ground in Ondo State!

“Thus, all their posturing and demand that Mimiko should join ACN, a party which was not on ground by collapsing the LP, which has become the biggest party in Ondo, into a non existent party (ACN) amounts to placing something on nothing!

“The truth is that in Ondo State, the people are the political barometer and they are the one who determines where the political pendulum would swing and the people are still happy with the LP so there was no need to jump ship as they wanted us to do, the MCO spokesperson disclosed.

The MCO, therefore, warned the ACN leadership to retrace their footsteps and allow democracy to thrive in Ondo State by embarking on issue based campaigns rather than resorting to personality attacks and unleashing violence on the people of the State.

“In any case, we want to tell them that Ondo State is today one of the best administered State in Nigeria, indeed, Lagos is not better administered than Ondo State and we have empirical data to prove that be it in health, education, agriculture, name it and accolades from international organisations from within and outside Nigeria attest to this.

“We urge the ACn leaders to wait until October 20 and stop resorting to abuses unnecessary grandstanding and name calling as those do not win election. What win elections are manifestoes, ideology and performance not violence, maiming and killing. On October 20, they will all lose. We want to remind the Pharaohs of today that, the God who saved the children of Israel is still there and he will see us through and these Egyptians we see today, we shall see them no more,” Olabisi intoned08u







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