PDP ready to receive Gov. Mimiko ----Elegbeleye
(Nigeria )
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State
said on Sunday that it had set up a nine-man committee to liaise with the
national leadership of the party to persuade and ensure that Governor Olusegun
Mimiko defected to the PDP.
A chieftain of the PDP, Mr Gbenga Elegbeleye, said this to
newsmen at Ikare-Akoko in Ondo
State on Sunday on the
outcome of the meeting of the Ondo North senatorial district of the party.
According to Elegbeleye, who is the Director-General of the
National Sports Commission, NSC, membership of the committee includes
representatives from the three senatorial districts of the state.
He said that names of the committee members to include Mr
Ebenezer Alabi, the state partty Chairman, and
Mr Kingsley Kuku, the Special
Adviser to Presdident Goodluck Jonathan on Niger Delta Affairs.
He said that Mr Tokunbo Kayode, former Minister of Defence;
Sen. Bode Olajumoke and Chief Olusola Oke, former governorship candidate of the
party in the 2012 gubernatorial election in the state, were also members of the
committee.
Other members are Dr Eddy Olafeso, former Ondo State
Commissioner for Information; Mr Denis Alonge, the Deputy National Youth
Leader, and Elegbeleye.
Elegbeleye said the party's relationship with Mimiko and his
people would start immediately after he had declared formally for the PDP.
He expressed the hope that the governor's declaration would
come after the National Executive Council, NEC, meeting of the Labour Party
slated within the week.
The NSC director-general expressed optimism that the
defection of Mimiko and his political machinery to the PDP would be a blessing
and advantage to the party.
"Once the governor and his team move to the PDP, it
will make things easier for the PDP because elections in recent time in the
state has always been between the LP and the PDP.
"The focus now is on the 2015 national, state
assemblies and presidential elections but my main concern is the presidential
election because of my loyalty to the president. I am quite confident that
President Goodluck Jonathan will win the election in the entire South West and
other parts of the country due to the structure on ground," Elegbeleye
said.
He said the presidential election was different from other
elections and the issue of regionalism would have no place.
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