Mimikos defection to PDP, blessing for APC Boroffice
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, Prof. Robert Boroffice, has described the defection of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State from the Labour Party to the Peoples Democratic Party as a big blessing for the All Progressives Congress in the state.
Boroffice, who is representing the Ondo North Senatorial District at the upper chamber, stated this in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday.
He explained that many aggrieved members of the LP and the PDP in the state, who were not happy with the governors action, had started defecting to the APC.
Boroffice said, The defection of Governor Olusegun Mimiko to the PDP is the best thing that could happen politically to the APC in Ondo State. Before Mimiko finally made his intention known to Nigerians that he was going to join the PDP, his heart had always been with the PDP.
Many of the people in the Labour Party belong to the progressives camp. They didnt join the LP because of Mimiko; they joined the LP because the party subscribes to progressive ideology.
Now that Mimiko had gone back to the PDP, many people are also defecting from the LP to join their kits and kins in the APC being a truly progressive party. We are in the harvest time in Ondo State.
We are so excited, we are so happy. We can see the finger of God in all these things. Since Mimiko defected to the PDP, there is hardly any week that we are not harvesting, at least, 500 people from both the LP and the PDP, who are willingly joining the real progressives party, the APC.
The senator said the fact that some members of the PDP protested last week in Akure, against the defection of Mimiko to their party showed that the party was already in crisis.
He said, They know that he (Mimiko) may want to take over the party structure as the sitting governor.
So, some of them went to court. They know quite well that Mimiko would want to be in control of the party structure in the state.