The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says the Labour Party, LP, is not a formidable party but a vehicle for the actualisation of the ambitions of politicians.
A former Zonal Publicity Secretary of the, Ayo Fadaka, said this while speaking on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Tuesday.
Fadaka claimed that the LP has a track record of being toyed with by politicians.
He noted that former governor of Ondo state, Olusegun Mimiko, is the one that brought Labour Party to limelight when he was elected on the platform of the party as governor.
He said, “Political parties that are preparing for this election have candidates for every position out there. As far as I know, a political party is beyond the name a party bears. There is a very big structure that must flow, to borrow Buhari’s curious quotation, top to bottom. The party must flow from the very top down there; does Labour Party have anything anywhere else?
“Labour Party came into prominence when my oga (boss) and friend Dr Mimiko used it to become governor and since then it has become a party that people use when they think they have to prove a point politically they take, they use and they dump thereafter. For me the Labour Party is coming into this election just to have fun, it’s not going to make any effect, it can be that conclusive immediately even before the election,” he said.
He further stated, “I don’t know whatever experience he had in PDP and to say the party does not learn is not true. When I was speaking not long ago I told you that our constitution at the time was in a format, there is a change and something informed that change.
“You see, a political party is endemic, that is to say, it must reinvent and redevelop itself from time to time. So, I don’t know what my dear brother Fagbenro is saying there. Does he even think that he is in a political party? I don’t think so,” Fadaka said.