Former Gov Olusegun Mimiko
Former governor of Ondo State Olusegun Mimiko has mentioned he returned to the Labour Party (LP) out of the conviction to affix forces with a political ideology related to the necessity of the current day Nigeria.
He had on Wednesday, written to the management of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) informing them of his resignation from the party.
The former governor acknowledged that returning to the LP was borne out of “the need to catalyse a greater focus on the ideological content of the Nigerian political firmament.”
Mimiko mentioned: “LP, and its few ideological soul mates among the many legion of events within the nation in the present day, present the requisite platform for the sort of deep ideological introspection.
“Without doubt, this social democratic mantra, which LP and its soul mates symbolize, stays the absolute best outlet for main Nigeria into a new period of progressive governance.
“We have additionally include the conviction, consequent upon a number of years of sensible involvement within the nation’s political course of, that the necessity for ideologically centered political engagement is now extra urgent than ever earlier than.
“Virtually all the prevailing political events in Nigeria in the present day belong to the correct of the centre, ensconced because it had been in a neo-liberal psychological assemble, the title or mantra they select to enrobe themselves in, however.
“This is clear not when it comes to the pretentious claims they make to ideological purity, however in the best way and method they've used energy; together with the extent to which they've mainstreamed the curiosity and welfare of the weak and poor in our society.
“This ideological fluidity, within which the nation’s extant democracy has evolved since 1999, deserves now to be fully interrogated, with a view to engendering a transition to a more ideologically defined system of engagement.”