Members of the state working committee of the Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party have continued their defiance of the national body over the defection of Governor Olusegun Mimiko, insisting that the process of his defection was mismanaged by some selected national leaders.
After a meeting of the committee in Akure on Monday, it stated that Mimiko’s defection on October 2 in the Presidential Villa was done “with so much disrespect to the party chairman and members of the state working committee.”
A statement issued after the meeting by the Director of Publicity, Ayo Fadaka, read in part: “We also want to bring to the fore our total discomfort and displeasure to the manner his (Mimiko) defection was managed by selected leaders of the party at the national level who midwifed the process and did so with a lot of disrespect to the state party chairman and members of the state working committee.
“We believe that this action is calculated to treat the entire members of this party as inconsequential and of little or no consequence. Therefore, we declare that this is grossly unfair and so reject outrightly all the negotiations purportedly entered into on our behalf without our direct input.
“We state in the most unequivocal manner that we repose absolute confidence in the executives of the party at every level in the state and will take serious exceptions to any action taken directly or indirectly to harm or dismantle them.”
The statement further noted that members of the executive welcomed Mimiko and his followers to the party in their individual capacities, just as they respected the constitution of the PDP particularly the recognition that it conferred on any governor who is a member.
They held that although Mimiko’s stated intentions for his defection were to help President Goodluck Jonathan win the next election, they doubted his current capabilities to do so following his current political standing, especially with the people of Ondo State.
The statement called on members of the party in the state to remain calm and committed to a party they had toiled consistently to uphold and sustain over the years.
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