Governor Oluesegun Mimiko of Ondo state has nominated Olasinmi Akindele-Odunmbaku, the wife of a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, as a commissioner.
Dr Olusegun Mimiko
The nominee is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party in Akoko North East local government and she is a wife of James Odunmnaku, a prominent member of the APC and close ally to the national leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Mimiko has forwarded her name to the state House of Assembly and she is expected to be screened on Tuesday, October 27.
The commissioner of information, Kayode Akinmade, said that Akindele-Odunmbaku is a member of the PDP and has helped the party in her local council, This Days reports.
Akinmade said: “She is an active member of the PDP in her local government and she was formerly of the Labour Party (LP). We came together to the PDP. She is a very rugged politician and well loved by her people in the area and she is also philanthropy, she deserved to be a commissioner.”
It was learnt that she contested for the PDP House of Representatives ticket and lost. A source close to the PDP in the state said that she was being compensated after she was denied the party’s ticket. The source added that her appointment was to enable her work hard for the emergence of a PDP governorship candidate in her local government in the 2016 gubernatorial election in the state.
Meanwhile, Mimiko had condemned the judgment of the Rivers State Election Petitions Tribunal, which nullified the victory of Governor Nyesom Wik
The governor faulted the tribunal for not waiting for the judgment of the Supreme Court over the issue of its jurisdiction before passing the judgment. He added that the court verdict would come up in a few days.
