BY HENRY UMORU

SENATOR Bode Olajumoke has dismissed speculations that he is secretly supporting the second term bid of Governor Olusegun Mimiko.

In distancing himself from Mimiko, Olajumoke, who is one of the leading lights of Ondo politics, told Vanguard that he had on the contrary been busy reconciling aggrieved factions within the PDP.

His denial brings to rest, speculations in Ondo State and Abuja that Senator Olajumoke alongside some other aggrieved PDP chieftains are working behind the scene to ensure that the PDP candidate, Chief Olusola Oke does not emerge victorious in the election.
“Who is that person, who is giving you that information that I am PDP in the morning and Labour in the evening? I am not aware. My aspiration, my total yearnings is that PDP would come back to rule this state,” he added.

According to Senator Olajumoke, the internal crisis in PDP has to a large extent been settled by the seven-man reconciliation committee inaugurated by the Bamanga Tukur led National Working Committee, NWC of which he is a member.

With his support for the PDP candidate settled, Olajumoke nevertheless identified paucity of funds as a major challenge to the party’s aspiration.