Ondo Poll: We’ll Beat Mimiko Silly -Tinubu •You’ll Meet Your Waterloo In October -Mimiko

THE National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Senator Bola Tinubu, has expressed the confidence of his party winning the October 20 governorship election in Ondo State.

Tinubu spoke on Friday in Lagos upon his arrival from the United States of America.

He said: “We are  working hard for the October gubernatorial election in Ondo State. Our candidate is working hard. The party is working very hard. All our structures are in place. And as long as the election is well monitored and controlled, we are vey sure of victory.”

But the Ondo State governor and the candidate of the Labour Party in the state, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, has described the former Lagos State governor’s submission as a pipe dream.

Speaking through his Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade, Mimiko said: “Ondo people are not slaves. They will not worship on foreign altar. He will meet his waterloo in Ondo come October 20.”

Meanwhile, Senator Tinubu insisted that he was properly invited to the National Democratic Convention in America, describing the comments his attendance of the event has generated in the political circle as unwarranted.

The ACN leader, who arrived aboard a private jet, explained that the ruling party did not have the moral right to query his invitation to the convention which, he said, was not enough excuse for the party’s failure to address issues bordering on governance, privatisation process of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria and inability to put food on the table of the average Nigerian.

He described as noble, the opportunity he had to discuss with great minds at the convention, ideas that are central to the development and sustenance of democratic institutions.

He said further that his attendance of the convention had drawn unnecessary attention from the ruling party which, he said, had lost touch with the essence of people-oriented governance.

“It is unfortunate that we have not been able to distinguish between public contact and a proper democratic convention. There is a great exhibition of Nigerian ignorance and those scavenging  power in it’s corridors. They do not even appreciate  that fact that we fought for democracy. During the struggle for this democracy, there was a lot of precedence and people outside this country are still watching us. I  was at the convention. I was invited properly. Who are the people asking me to prove anything?

“Is it about the high rate of unemployment in this country? Is it about the inability of the ruling party to provide food on the table for hungry Nigerians? Is it about the state of electricity in the country that they cannot privatise properly, without blackmailing the former minister of power, who the government forced to resign, because that have the agenda of turning everything into a family affair?” he stated.