The Labour Party (LP) has rejected former Governor Olusegun Mimiko who resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Wednesday.
Mimiko had presented a three-paragraph resignation letter to the PDP where he said he is returning to his former party, LP.
National Chairman of Labour Party, Dr. Mike Omotosho, has, however, accused the former governor of attempting to destabilise the party, vowing that his re-entry into the party would be resisted.
He said Mimiko’s re-entry into the party is to launder his sagging political image.
President Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Ayuba Wabba, also stated that the party would not welcome him back.
Addressing a press conference at the NLC secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, Omotosho lamented that the erstwhile governor abandoned the party when they needed him most.
He described Mimiko’s defection in 2015 as a betrayal of the platform that gave him succour in the darkest hour of “his political career” especially as manifested in his two-term victory on the ticket of Labour Party.
“Nigerians would recall that Dr. Mimiko abandoned the Labour Party for the People’s Democratic Party a few days to Labour Party’s October 2015 National Convention. Such a treachery and betrayal of a party that gave the former governor succour in the darkest hour of his political career especially as manifest in his two-term victory on the ticket of Labour Party is to say the least, cheap and callous. It also revealed the paucity of knowledge of the philosophy of the Labour Party as a peoples’ rooted party and dearth of class consciousness on his part,” Omotosho said.
