The PDP governorship candidate, Jegede was said to have fallen out with his political benefactor, Mimiko, shortly after the 2016 governorship election, accusing the latter of betraying him in the election to favour the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Tofowomo, who was Commissioner for Transport in Mimiko’s cabinet, had sometime ago taken Jegede to the cleaners politically, revealing the gross political inconvenience he had with PDP leaders from the South Senatorial District, and why he lost the last election there massively. As noticeable in his cold rapport with the two current PDP senators, Nicholas Tofowomo and Ayo Akinyelure, representing South and Central districts respectively, the party has not been able to provide viable opposition. To a large extent, most PDP leaders in the state today were appointees at the same time with Jegede in the two-term tenure of Mimiko, where he served as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice from 2009 to 2016. Pundits in the state believe that the emergence of Jegede as party leader only further jeopardised the PDP in the state as most of the big politicians felt that he is inexperienced and out-of-touch with contemporary politics to lead. It was believed that Jegede pitched his tent with Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, to ensure Olafeso lost the election to Arapaja six months ago. Eddy Olafeso, lost election to Taofeeq Arapaja in April 2021. The fallout of the state congress snowballed into the regional congress where the former PDP National Vice Chairman and governorship aspirant in the 2020 election, Dr. However, analysts said the development further polarised and weakened the party, especially after the outcome of its South West Congress.
Automatically, this made the former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Jegede, the defacto leader of the party in the state. This development, according to keen followers of politics in the state, may not be unconnected with the leadership status of two-time governorship candidate of the party, Eyitayo Jegede, who has assumed the position since the former governor and his political benefactor, Mimiko, ditched the party for Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) in 2019.įor the record, the former governor had left the PDP for the second time to emerge the National Leader of ZLP, a party which many political observers had believed would be a third force in the country but failed to win any National Assembly slot, save a state Assembly seat in Ondo State.īefore the Octogovernorship election in Ondo State, Jegede had fought to control the soul of the party, a bid that led to the controversial congress, which produced him as the PDP candidate for the second time.
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Other governors in the train were Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde and their Rivers State counterpart, Nyesom Wike, who had all come to ensure Mimiko attended the National Convention of the party yesterday.įor over two months, the major opposition party, PDP, has experienced series of internal wrangling across the 203 wards and 18 local councils because of the impending return of Mimiko.
Olusegun Mimiko, on Thursday, rejoining the major opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has since been raising a lot of dust within the party.Ĭhairman, PDP Governor’s Forum and Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal, had led three other governors to Mimiko’s residence in Ondo West Local Council, on a mission that has laid to rest doubts about Iroko’s imminent return to the fold. The declaration of the immediate past Governor of Ondo State, Dr.
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