Ondo PDP crisis: Oke attacks Mimiko

Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the October 2012 election in Ondo State, Chief Olusola Oke, on Sunday, attacked Governor Olusegun Mimiko.
The attack has, once again, brought to the fore the crisis between the old and new PDP in the South-West state.
While Oke is seen as the leader of the old PDP, Mimiko is the undisputed leader of the new PDP.
At a press conference in Akure, Oke accused the governor of running a one-man show.
“Pitiably, he is monopolising the leadership of the party, imposing his surrogate as the coordinator of the Presidential Campaign Committee in the state and using his position as a leader to the detriment of the old members of the party. The governor is also sponsoring newspaper publications to discredit me and paint me in bad light before the presidency so that he would be the only person to get all the benefits that would accrue to the state by the time President Goodluck Jonathan emerges as the president for the second term in office”.
On the newspaper publication, Oke said: “The governor alleged that I have not been working for the party. I want to say that I am not answerable to Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, I am a leader of PDP in Ondo State just as he is a leader, so I do not need to go and do a daily report to him about how I work. If he believes in propaganda, I believe in interacting with people, I go from community to community meeting community leaders, youths leaders and women leader of the party.
“I have been in the PDP from inception and not a joiner, I did not go to AD or Labour Party. I have been here and no newcomer would come and talk to me on how to work or encourage me. I am the one to educate them about democracy in PDP, about conduct in PDP, about how we behave here, about how we respect integrity of people and about how we relate with each other, that we don’t have a sole administrator here. We don’t have an headmaster here.
“It is unfair for any person to accuse me and to even extend it that I am romancing with APC. I am a politician of national repute, if I have any reason to leave PDP, I will leave but I have no reason because PDP is my party, I eat, smell, sleep, breathe and dream PDP. I am not like others who jump in and jump out, they jump in when the weather is good and go out when it is not good. I am here for better for worse.”