Ondo guber: ACN strategises to neutralise Mimiko’s popularity
…Slates mega rally for month end
By RAZAQ BAMIDELE
Feeling uncomfortable with the soaring popularity of Governor
Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State ahead of the October 20 governorship
election, the leadership of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has
gone back to the drawing board to strategise on how to neutralise the
governor’s rising profile before the D-Day.
A worried chieftain of the party, who revealed this to Daily Sun in
confidence at the weekend in Osogbo, in Osun State said “our leaders are
getting scared by the soaring popularity of our major target,” saying
“they are of the strong conviction that if nothing concrete is done to
arrest the trend, the October 20 election will just be a formality for
Mimiko.”
And to avoid “an outright electoral disgrace and disgraceful
walkover,” the chieftain disclosed that a “high power machinery is being
set up to work out an effective method to checkmate the rising profile
of Mimiko,” confessing that “in fact, the development is giving us
political nightmare.”
However, the South-west Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Mr. Ayo
Afolabi, in an earlier interview with Daily Sun expressed confidence
that Ondo State would fall to his party through the ballot box,
asserting that “in the coming contest, ACN is the party to beat, power
of incumbency or no power of incumbency.”
While admitting that, “we are not underrating any party in the
contest,” Afolabi informed that “ACN is always known for its
preparedness for any contest in the interest of the Nigerian masses,”
enthusing that “our antecedent as the only party with the interest of
the masses at heart will easily win the contest for us.”
But Daily Sun can reveal authoritatively that nocturnal meeting for
the ACN game plan had commenced and would be compiled in a booklet to be
studied and implemented by a war commander likely to be the Ekiti State
Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
Fayemi, according to Daily Sun investigation, is favoured to handle
the propaganda machinery based on his qualification as a renowned
international scholar on political warfare.
His terms of reference, Daily Sun further gathered , would include
massive media campaign to give Mimiko a run for his money in the media.
Meanwhile, the much postponed planned mega rally of the party has
been tentatively slated for this month end in Akure, Ondo State capital,
with Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola as master campaigner to be
supported by the party’s Campaign Director-General, Tayo Alasoadura.
