Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko, today brought together some southwest and Afenifere members to Lagos where he organized another event focused on the national conference that was held last year. However, the atmosphere at today’s post-confab summit in Lagos revealed that it was a thinly disguised partisan campaign to convince voters in the southwest to back President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term in office. [slideshow]38531[/slideshow]
The summit is supporting the re-election of President Jonathan on the basis of his ostensible promise to implement the recommendations of the national conference.
Among those who attended today’s event at Airport Hotel in Ikeja, Lagos were Reuben Fasoranti and Amos Akingba. Others at the event, who used the confab to push the case for Mr. Jonathan’s re-election, were the national chairman of the confab, Femi Okurounmu, Fredrick Fasheun and Gani Adams from the Odua Peoples Congress (OPC), and Yinka Odumakin, a spokesman for Afenifere, a pan-Yoruba group.
Bode George, an ex-convict and prominent official of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos, former Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, and controversial minister, Musiliu Obanikoro, also attended the event, which was moderated by Governor Mimiko.