Mimiko denies nominating aide for Jonathan

By Damisi Ojo 30/06/2011 00:01:00

 

Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko yesterday denied reports in some sections of the media that he nominated a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to President Goodluck Jonathan for consideration as Minister even as he pleaded that he be left out of issues pertaining to the PDP.
Mimiko was quoted as having nominated one Mrs. Omobola Olubusola Johnson for the President to be considered as Minister. He, however, denied it as totally strange.

But in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, in Akure, the governor stated: “I want to place it on record for the umpteenth time that I am a member of the Labour Party (LP) and that I have not and would not go to the PDP; so, it would be tantamount to disservice, and pure mischief for anybody to say that I would be nominating a supposedly PDP member for consideration as an aide to a PDP-led government.
“In the first place, the woman in question is unknown to me; she is not a member of the LP and I do not belong to PDP. So, it would be wrong to insinuate with glee as the media report had it that I nominated her for Mr. President to be considered as a Minister or for whatever position. And Mr. President has never spoken to me about the issue as was stated in the media report.” He, therefore, enjoined that he be spared insinuations that he was behind schemes for the woes of the PDP in the state.

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