NLC protests Mimiko’s return to Labour Party

The NLC has said it will reject plans by a formergovernor of Ondo state to return to its party, Labour
Party- The congress said there would be no room toaccommodate Mimiko in the party- They said Olusegun Mimiko plans to use Labour Partyto launder his sagging political image"

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the
Labour Party (LP) has said they will reject every
attempt by a former Ondo state governor,
Olusegun Mimiko, to return to the party.
The national chairman of LP, Mike Omotosho
said with the former governor’s political
antecedents, there would be no room to
accommodate Mimiko in the party.
Vanguard reports that Omotosho said Nigerian
workers wish to put a disclaimer to this "ill-fated

adventure."

He said: " The Nigerian Labour Congress is fully aware of
plans by Mimiko to destabilise the current gains made by
workers to reclaim and reposition the party. It is very
obvious that the sole purpose of Mimiko’s re-approach to
the Labour Party is to use the workers’ party to launder his
sagging political image.”
“Nigerians would recall that Mimiko abandoned
the Labour Party for the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) 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 the party is to say the least, cheap and callous
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It also revealed paucity of knowledge of the philosophy of
the Labour Party as a people’s rooted party and dearth of
class consciousness on his part.
While the leadership of NLC continues to work to rebuild
the Labour Party especially through the instrumentality of
our political commission, we urge all workers and indeed
genuine lovers of popular democracy to ignore the political
theatrics of people like the former Governor of Ondo state,"
Omotosho said.