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Aidi, the only aspirant in the primary election, was unanimously adopted by 100 delegates across the 18 local government areas of the state.
He thanked members of the party for finding him worthy to carry the flag of the party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election.

Governor Mimiko said the challenge in driving development in the Niger Delta had largely been that of poor supervision or lack of it and commended the NDDC management for moving around the states to see things for itself and ensure compliance to standards and specifications

Ige said the PDP won 202 out of the 203 wards in the councillorship election, while the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria won one ward.
The chairman said ACPN won the councillorship election at Ward 9, Oba-Ile in Akure North Local Government Area

Mimiko pointed out that a key challenge to budget implementation was inadequacy of fund, which had been quite precarious of late.
According to him, this is not unconnected with the dwindling oil revenue, which incidentally provides about 90 per cent of the country’s revenue receipts

Governorship of Ondo State against Agagu who was an incumbent. His decision then, though was against the political calculations of the then President Olusegun Obasanjo and the People’s Democratic Party establishment, all of whom favoured Agagu’s reelection, became a popular grassroots movement that swept across the length and breadth of Ondo State like a powerful tsunami. And despite the evil machination of the establishment to deny the Ondo people of their moment of joy, the will of God prevailed. Now, seven years down the line, it has become crystal clear that the people’s hope in Mimiko was not a sham

He also served the governor in other capacities such as Special Assistant, Senior Special Assistant and Commissioner for Education.
He was Special Adviser on International Relations to President Goodluck Jonathan before becoming the Director-General of the Technical Aids Corp