THE Labour Party (LP) has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure improved service delivery during the October 20, 2012 Ondo State gubernatorial election.The party made the call in a communiqu after its 14th National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting in Abuja on Monday, read by its national chairman, Isa Aremu.Governor Olusegun Mimiko while addressing the NEC's meeting at the party's headquarters, thanked President Goodluck Jonathan for allowing the Edo people's wish during the last governorship election in that state.He also called on the President to ensure that Ondo State would not be an exception, adding that what the people desire is a free and fair election.Meanwhile, Mimiko has implored the people of the state not to allow those he described as alien to its culture and values to 'deceive, intrudeand pollute their focus,' pledging his administration's effort to deliver more of the dividend of democracy to them.He spoke to a mammoth crowd led by the three monarchs in Idanre Local Council, while commissioninga Caring Heart NeighbourhoodNight Market.The Owa of Idanre and the paramount ruler of Idanre land, Oba Frederick Aroloye, lauded Mimiko for his achievements and assured the governor that his subjects would reciprocate his gestures appropriately.On his part, Mr. Idowu Ajanaku, a journalist and director of media, publicity and strategy for the campaign organisation of Ondo State Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) candidate, Rotimi Akeredolu, in a statement entitled, 'LP's loaded lies,' said: 'Expectedly, as the much anticipated gubernatorial polls in Ondo State inches closer everyday, the major political gladiators are up in the race to clinch the prime laurel - the governorship. It has, however, come to the notice of the ACN the calculated and malicious attempt by Governor Mimiko and his Labour Party to give the wrong public perception that we are out to undo him by all foul means. To achieve his ignoble aim, he has gone to town to hawk loaded lies on the streets in desperation for power.'For instance, only recently the media was awash with the news that as many as 10,000 party faithful of both the ACN and the PDP have defected to the LP. It is pure fallacy because virtually all the politicians he claimed have decamped to the LP have been denying it. One of such is Mr. Felix Rawa, the former gubernatorial aspirant of the ACN who Mimiko claimed has jumped ship to LP. He has since gone public to deny it outright.'The same goes for Gbenga Akinsoyo (Garo), the erstwhile publicity secretary of the ACN who has similarly denied the spurious claim by the governor that he too had decamped to the LP. It has become his stock-in-trade to lure potentially influential politicians with the promise to give them plum appointments only to renege in the twinkle of an eye. He is in the habit of dropping them like some filthy rags after he must have used them to his benefit.'Ajanaku added: 'The most recent and indeed famous of such victims he has hoodwinked with the spider's gift is none other than Olu Agunloye, another former governorship aspirant then on the platform of the ACN.'After dancing himself dizzy at the recent public declaration of Mimiko's intention to run for a second term, Agunloye was left handling the wrong end of the stick when the governor's promise to announce him as his running mate fell flat on its face.The incumbent, Ali Olanusi was retained instead. Agunloye became a cheap pawn in the chess game that Mimiko has turned Ondo politics into. Unable to contain this rude shock, Agunloye has since removed all LP logos from his office in Akure and others across the state.'Yele Omoguruwa, the former commissioner of Works in the state was promised in the realm of some distant dreams. He has now pitched his tent with the PDP. Not done, in his failed bid to cause disaffection amongst the stalwarts of the ACN, Mimiko at a time claimed that the respected Senator Ajayi Boroffice has moved back to the LP. He too has gone public to deny that claim.
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