Senator Mark Fears For PDP’s Unity In Ondo, As Governor Mimiko Defects, Takes Over Its Leadership

Senate President, David Mark has expressed concern that the defection of the Ondo state governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko from Labour Party (LP) which platform he was elected in…to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) may cause crisis and confusion in the rank and file of the state’s PDP.
Senator Mark, who headed the integration committee of PDP that saw to the return of governor Mimiko to the party said: “we don’t want to hear about old PDP and new PDP in the state.”
The Senate President appealed to those whom governor Mimiko met in PDP to blend well together, saying: “the mixture should not be like water and oil.”
He asked governor Mimiko as new leader of PDP in Ondo state to treat every member on the same pedestal.
He also appealed to the party’s members that have been managing it before now to respect the leadership of Mimiko.
Senator Mark said that with the coming of Mimiko, PDP now has two governors in the South West, adding that the party is set to break through the region in the 2015 general elections.
“The Ekiti governor-elect, Ayo Fayose, will soon be sworn-in soon and nothing will stop that”
The Deputy National Chairman of PDP, Prince Uche Secondus assured that the party is one and united everywhere, saying that governor Mimiko and all those who returned to the party would have all their entitlements restored.
He also announced that the party has granted automatic waver to returnees who want to contest any election in the primaries, promising that the primaries would be transparent, free and fair.
Secondus also cautioned against bickering, rumour and disintegration of PDP in Ondo state, even as he asked governor Mimiko to now take up the leadership of the party in the state.

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