(NIGERIA) The Group Managing Director of Energy Group and a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim, CFR, has dissociated himself from a purported meeting of the South-West PDP with Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State.
Dr. Ibrahim said at the weekend that he was not at the said meeting and, consequently, it was wrong for anybody to have associated him with such.
He said at the time of the meeting he was in Abuja and, therefore, could not in any way be part of such meeting.
Ibrahim stated that, “My attention has been drawn to the meeting held by Mimiko with South West PDP where it was alleged that I attended the meeting. I want to make it clear that I was not at that meeting and it is wrong to use my name as one of the attendees. As at the time the purported meeting was held, I was in Abuja.”
He explained that, “I do not believe in the capacity and capability of Mimiko to deliver South West to President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 elections. For instance, a leader that could not put his house in order, that cannot pay salary of civil servants, has nothing to deliver in South West for the President.
“Mimiko lacks the political legitimacy, particularly the moral acceptance at this time. If the governor could poll 260,000 votes in the last election out of the 1.4 million registered voters in Ondo State for his own mandate, I do not know what he wants to transfer to President Jonathan in 2015.”
The PDP leader said, “As a leader who deceived former Governor Adebayo Adefarati (of Ondo State) as a commissioner under the Alliance for Democracy, moved to the PDP and deceived former governor Olusegun Agagu as Secretary to the Government, also deceived former President Olusegun Obasanjo who made him Minister of Housing, with that historical fact will only deceive President Jonathan in 2015.”
Ibrahim advised the authentic PDP candidates to commence their campaign, while assuring them that “the administrative authority of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot overrule judicial power. With the court order in their hand, they are as good as the various positions they are vying for.”
He said President Jonathan’s re-election, if coordinated by credible people and not political liabilities, will be an easy ride in the South West. He promised to stop all the illegal candidates being paraded by Mimiko.
- NEWSWATCH TIMES-
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