Mimiko’ll declare for Accord Party soon - Ladoja

by Tunde Ogunesan 

Former governor of Oyo State and national leader of the Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has said that his party has become a third political force being embraced by the people of the South-West geopolitical zone to wrest power from the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) from power.
Senator Ladoja made this known while welcoming a former secretary to the  state government, Mr Ayodele Adigun and scores of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members in Ibadan North East Local Government Area of the state to the Accord Party.
He disclosed that big political actors from the major parties in the South-West had joined the party, adding that Accord Party had been entrenched in all the six states of the region preparatory to the 2014/2015 election.
According to him, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State is one of those that have finalised plans to publicly declare for the Accord Party soon.
Sunday Tribune gathered that influx of big politicians from the region to the Accord Party has been slated for Easter period at the beginning of the second quarter of 2013.
“Ask Mimiko, he will tell you the role the Accord Party played in his re-election last month. He and I are going to the same place. Our support for him was massive. Very soon, you will hear directly from him that he is now a member of the Accord Party.
“My followers and I will not leave the Accord Party. Leaders and members of other parties are free to join Accord. Politicians from Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos states have embraced our party,” Ladoja said.
SundayTribune