A former Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has explained why he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Labour Party, LP.

The former governor formally dumped the PDP, on Wednesday to rejoin the Labour Party.

Mimiko who spoke to reporters after obtaining the LP card at his ward in Ondo town, said his decision to return to LP was borne out of the need to “catalyze a greater focus on the ideological content of the Nigerian political firmament.”

He said, “We have come with the conviction, consequent upon several years of practical involvement in the nation’s political process, that the need for ideologically focused political engagement is now more pressing than ever before.

“Virtually all the existing political parties in Nigeria today belong to the right of the centre, ensconced as it were in a neo-liberal mental construct, the name or mantra they choose to enrobe themselves in notwithstanding.

“This is evident not in terms of the pretentious claims they make to ideological purity, but in the way and manner, they have used power; including the extent to which they have mainstreamed the interest and welfare of the weak and poor in our society.

“This ideological fluidity, within which the nation’s extant democracy has evolved since 1999, deserves now to be fully interrogated, with a view to engendering a transition to a more ideologically defined system of engagement.

“We have come to the conclusion that these are the missing links in our political process, which have tended to make an all-comers game of it, and one in which the interest of the mass of the people has been greatly marginalized in several of our governance spaces, since 1999.

“The decision was also not borne out of any disagreement with LP, either ideologically or operationally. It was simply a decision that we needed to take in the higher interest of our country.

“We particularly had in focus the agenda of restructuring, which frontier the then president had extended a bit by convoking the National Conference. We thus felt compelled to work with his party, hoping that his victory in the 2015 election, would translate the vision of restructuring the Nigerian federation into reality

“We thought helping to elect a presidential candidate that had demonstrated this commitment to the restructuring of the country was well worth the risk associated with our having to step out of our LP platform onto PDP, on which the former president was running.

“Even now, restructuring remains for us the critical plank without which the much-needed stability and functionality of our country cannot be procured.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/06/2019-why-i-dumped-pdp-for-lp-mimiko.html

The man sabi english no be small!

What a political bobrisky


Life of a politician is so risky


They're more like a prostitute


How I wish they can be resolute


They are not a leader with purpose


Anything that can hinder they oppose


They're bidder without human interest


A killer with the slightest upset


They're above democracy


They love tyranny and autocracy


They're the elder brothers of the devil


The angels God once chased away from heaven


Cc Lalasticlala

Even Labour Party is having factional leadership. It's like Mimiko did not learn his lesson in 2016.

Yeye politics in yeye country

Who does not know that he will defect! You think I'm surprise!

He will soon comot again. This is where Political prostitutes begins. PERSONAL INTEREST and nothing more.

I advise he go back to hospital as a doctor

Political prostitutes everywhere!

were man. see grammar just in order to sink in his gruesome idea into the mind of his mumu people. We need total orientation and right mind to put the likes of these people who think they can buy integrity by any mean in their place. The madness possess by these people is more than that of Clifford Orji.

He reminds me of Peter Obi in my state. Political prostitutes.

Your decision is best known to you.
All the best.

Oyah Where's that Labour party chairman lamenting they won't allow him to join...lies everywhere

Senate loading ......2019. All na strategy

Political herdsman simply looking for grazing opportunities.

in all of the reasons stated see no sense at all....no point to show. . .just looking for where to get cheap vote again. .I hope the Labour party in ondo state will not be deceive again. .

Lies everywhere.If it doesn't favour him again,he will decamp.

11Ebiscoo:
A former Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has explained why he dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the Labour Party, LP.

The former governor formally dumped the PDP, on Wednesday to rejoin the Labour Party.

Mimiko who spoke to reporters after obtaining the LP card at his ward in Ondo town, said his decision to return to LP was borne out of the need to “catalyze a greater focus on the ideological content of the Nigerian political firmament.”

He said, “We have come with the conviction, consequent upon several years of practical involvement in the nation’s political process, that the need for ideologically focused political engagement is now more pressing than ever before.

“Virtually all the existing political parties in Nigeria today belong to the right of the centre, ensconced as it were in a neo-liberal mental construct, the name or mantra they choose to enrobe themselves in notwithstanding.

“This is evident not in terms of the pretentious claims they make to ideological purity, but in the way and manner, they have used power; including the extent to which they have mainstreamed the interest and welfare of the weak and poor in our society.

“This ideological fluidity, within which the nation’s extant democracy has evolved since 1999, deserves now to be fully interrogated, with a view to engendering a transition to a more ideologically defined system of engagement.

“We have come to the conclusion that these are the missing links in our political process, which have tended to make an all-comers game of it, and one in which the interest of the mass of the people has been greatly marginalized in several of our governance spaces, since 1999.

“The decision was also not borne out of any disagreement with LP, either ideologically or operationally. It was simply a decision that we needed to take in the higher interest of our country.

“We particularly had in focus the agenda of restructuring, which frontier the then president had extended a bit by convoking the National Conference. We thus felt compelled to work with his party, hoping that his victory in the 2015 election, would translate the vision of restructuring the Nigerian federation into reality

“We thought helping to elect a presidential candidate that had demonstrated this commitment to the restructuring of the country was well worth the risk associated with our having to step out of our LP platform onto PDP, on which the former president was running.

“Even now, restructuring remains for us the critical plank without which the much-needed stability and functionality of our country cannot be procured.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/06/2019-why-i-dumped-pdp-for-lp-mimiko.html

You jumped from LP to PDP now you are back again

No amount of explanation can erase the label 'political prostitute' you are

boolet:
Political herdsman simply looking for grazing opportunities.

Hahahaha! Gbam!

Even if l understood,l just refused to understand.All l could read was grammar to sinked the ship..he would soon leave the ship for another unprecendented voyages.

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Ashewo

Na By grammar?

Politiical prostitute. Jumping from one political party to another.

Our politicians using turenchi to confuse us from time immemorial.

When they lack ideology or principle, they resort to speaking English.

'All Low show' politicians everywhere! Smh

Egbon is blowing all this grammar because Fayose and Wike muscled him out of setting

vizkiz:
Ondo is doomed if this guy becomes governor again.

Not possible. He already did 2 terms.

IamPatriotic:
Egbon is blowing all this grammar because Fayose and Wike muscled him out of setting

. Don't mind the Baba oo..politics is self interest in the country ..never stay where your interest is not guaranteed.

ohhh