Contrary to earlier reports, the governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko has described his reported plan to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as “a rumour”.

“I don’t want to react to that because it is a mere rumour,”  the governor told newsmen after the National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting of the Labour Party, LP, in Abuja on Wednesday, 10 September, 2014.

Mimiko, however, stated that he would support President Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 presidential election if the president decides to run.

It would be recalled that Mimiko, who is currently the vice chairman of the Jonah Jang faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, was alleged recently to have concluded plans to decamp the LP for the PDP.

Commenting on the matter while declaring the NEC meeting open, the National Chairman of LP, Dan Nwanyanwu, rubbished reports that Mimiko was planning to leave the party.

Nwanyanwu said the party was not aware of the move and that the governor would not have attended the meeting if he had such a plan.

“You have seen him (Mimiko) here. As I’m talking to you, he is still a bonafide member of the Labour Party,” he said.