Olusegun Mimiko
Olusegun Rahman Mimiko born 3 October 1954), is a Nigerian medical doctor and politician who served as governor of Ondo State from 2009 to 2017. He was the senatorial candidate of the Zenith Labour Party for Ondo Central District in the 2019 Senate elections. He served as the 16th (5th civilian) governor of Ondo State, becoming the first two-term governor of Ondo State, and the first Labour Party governor in Nigeria. Mimiko was previously a federal minister for housing and urban development, a secretary to the Ondo State Government, and a two-time Ondo State Commissioner for Health.
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[edit]- I also prayed specially that after our tenure , when we bow out, a man after the heart of God will take over in the state, a man that will have the heart for the people, because if you are brilliant and you don’t have the heart for the people you cannot succeed
- It’s just amazing, when you look back seven years up, we’ve reduced maternal death more than 70 percent, this is a verifiable data.
- We are always overcoming all our challenges . God has turned our reproach to blessing most especially on this event centre. The opposition thought that this will be abandoned project
- Through the instrumentality of our intervention in infrastructure i.e mega schools, the mainstreaming of the inspectorate institution in our secondary schools, to unprecedented intervention in our tertiary educational institutions, we have brought meaning back into education
