Former Governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, is back in the Labour Party, LP, amidst controversy.
He resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Wednesday, saying it was for personal reasons.
However, while he was presented with a membership card by the Ondo State chapter of the party, the National Chairman of Labour Party, Dr. Mike Omotosho, opposed the move.
He said Mimiko did not deserve to return to the party.
At a press conference which he addressed on the matter, Omotosho at the Nigeria Labour Congress secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday, said Mimiko abandoned the party when he was most needed.
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He said the former governor betrayed the Labour Party despite the great support he enjoyed from it.
His words: “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.”
