Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, on
Wednesday, denied media reports that he nominated a member of the
Peoples Democratic Party for President Goodluck Jonathan to consider as
Minister.
He pleaded with those peddling the rumour to leave him out of issues pertaining to the PDP.
Mimiko, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, was quoted as having nominated one Mrs. Omobola Olubusola Johnson to be considered as a federal minister.
But the governor insisted in the statement that he never nominated the woman whom he described as “a total stranger.”
Mimiko in his statement said, “I want to place it on records for the umpteenth time that I am a member of the Labour Party and that I have not and would not go to the PDP.
“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 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.”
The governor said he had never sopken to the President about the issue as being speculated in the media.
By Sunday Aborisade Courtesy Of: Punch
He pleaded with those peddling the rumour to leave him out of issues pertaining to the PDP.
Mimiko, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, was quoted as having nominated one Mrs. Omobola Olubusola Johnson to be considered as a federal minister.
But the governor insisted in the statement that he never nominated the woman whom he described as “a total stranger.”
Mimiko in his statement said, “I want to place it on records for the umpteenth time that I am a member of the Labour Party and that I have not and would not go to the PDP.
“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 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.”
The governor said he had never sopken to the President about the issue as being speculated in the media.
By Sunday Aborisade Courtesy Of: Punch
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