On October 2nd he officially left the labour party for peoples democratic party. He was said to have been involved in an adultery scandal in with a U. K mistress, which was said to have lead to a heavy fight between him and wife. He was also rumored to have been involved in a forgery of election results which lead to him winning his first election. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
Notify me of new posts by email. Born 3rd October to Pa and Mrs. His father was an accomplished businessman of his time. As a young boy, he had a doting father, and his mother remains very caring. Though not born into opulence, he grew up in an environment that was suffused in love and care. Olusegun Mimiko was admitted to St. His graduation from this prestigious school helped shaped his life. As a medical doctor, he worked in the private and public sectors. From late to , Dr.
He returned to public service for another year between April and February again with the Ondo State Health Management Board before finally going into full private medical practice with the setting up of the Mona Mediclinic with headquarters in Ondo Town, Ondo State.
During his private practice, people trooped to his hospital for treatment, and at a point, his clinic was like a charity home. His political activities date back to his undergraduate days as a medical student at the then University of Ife, in the late s and early People knew him more with symposia and student union activism while he was in university.
His last two years in the university, in particular, were filled with activism. So powerful was he that he made a Student Union President in his room at Ife then. He was the one who packaged Wole Olaoye to become president of the student union as he Mimiko was his campaign manager. So, he came from that tradition of activism and he was able to blend it with Medicine. After graduation Dr. After his return from the National Youth Service scheme, he took up membership of the party. As a budding politician, he served as the publicity secretary of the Ondo local government chapter of the UPN in The internal crises which be-devilled the UPN and the politics of the era dragged on to the general elections.
This could not stop Dr. Mimiko and douse his in-born passion for social change. This cohered with the concern of 3 budding intellectuals ensconced in two Nigeria universities; themselves accomplished individuals today, Professor Femi Mimiko, Dr. Wole Akinjo, on the need for some form of intervention and departure from this growing tendency at demonizing politics. They vigorously engaged with the idea of getting concerned elements to continually brainstorm on ways to improve on the politics and governance in the Nigerian society.
After an extensive review of its political mobilization effort in , the OSG General Assembly enjoined full participation of its member in politics.
Olusegun Mimiko took a lead on this initiative. While that early effort did not achieve its specific objective, it marked the transformation of Dr. Mimiko into a full-fledged politician. Before long, Evangelist Olumilua saw the talent in the energetic Dr. It is to be noted that while for Odion, it was inappropriate for Mimiko to change party; same was perfectly in order for others who for personal reasons had to move from PDP to the fledgling APC then.
The objective reasons that informed the fallout between Mimiko and some of the political personalities that he had worked with before he won his governorship election, which had been adequately accounted for, were conveniently left unaddressed by Odion, a man who was simply on a damaging mission. Can you imagine that of somebody of the status of an editor, talking so cavalierly about the reputation of another person?
In deference to those who had procured his service, Odion failed to take note of the fact that Dr. Mimiko remains one of the very few Nigerians that have used political power most responsibly in the current democratic dispensation. This is a man whose accomplishment, especially in the critical health, education, and urban renewal sectors had been variously celebrated by credible international agencies as constituting benchmarks for not just Nigeria, but the developing world at large.
One would have expected a man with minimal pretentions to commitment to good governance to take account of such; but not an Odion who evidently is on a hatchet job. Mimiko was to come to later. It is that trying to nurture a fringe party to central power in a two-party dominant system was a herculean task. It is exciting that Odion who is quick to blame Iroko for quitting LP had no qualms serving as Commissioner under Adams, who himself had left the same LP much earlier.
That much for the double standard of an Odion, who incidentally was asked out of government at the appropriate time by Governor Oshiomhale, supposedly for some perfidious acts. Without any iota of fact whatsoever, Odion assumes Iroko was motivated in his political engagement by the desire for material acquisition. Alas, there is nothing on ground in the eight years that Governor Mimiko has spent in office that supports such an impression.
Yet, without any iota of evidence, Odion did not think it unworthy of himself to make such a spurious claim. He simply assumed that everyone in government is driven by rent-seeking proclivity. Or could it be that that is what his own personal foray into government and why he left unceremoniously demonstrated? What indeed has journalism come to?
It is laughable for anyone to suggest that Governor Mimiko is intolerant of opposition. Most people who have anything to do with Ondo State would know that it is either Odion does not know what he is talking about or does not care about his own reputation seeing that he is so far off the mark.
The notoriety of the particular radio station he mentioned, and how Dr. Mimiko has insisted that it be allowed to be in spite of that is one of the defining features of his governance. Yet, it is the same issue that a hatchet writer would seek to use to put down this quintessential democrat and public servant. What an irony! For the information of the Odions of this world. We the constituents of Dr. Mimiko are very proud of his accomplishment in those long years that he has served, and especially during his eight years as Governor.
That his preferred candidate did not win in an election, which any decent person knows was officially skewed against him,does not detract from this. No amount of vituperations by elements like Odion is going to change that. It bears repetition for the Odions of this world that there is nothing for Dr. Mimiko to lose any sleep over because his preferred candidate lost an election. This is a man who trained as a medical doctor; chose the instrumentality of political power to bring succor to a much blighted society; ran for office and won in very excruciating circumstances; put in place enduring programmes and structures, already benchmarked by international agencies; and would leave office in a blaze of glory.
Let those who feel inclined to gloat because Dr. By the way, do such elements like Odion know anything about the political forays of an Abraham Lincoln; or even closer home, of a Mohammadu Buhari who ran for the presidency four times before he became successful on his fourth attempt? These being said, it is rather unfortunate what becomes of younger journalists people like Odion have a duty to show the way, if what comes from their stable this late in the day are inanities like the one he did on Mimiko.
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