Olusegun Agagu

The Ondo State Labour Party (LP) has cried out over plans by the governor of the State, Dr Olusegun Agagu to set ablaze the residential buildings and offices of his close aides perceived to have unwittingly, with their conducts during the vexed April 14, 2007 election, jeopardized his victory in the wake of anticipated unfavourable judgment of the Justice Garba Nabaruma led five-man Election Petition Tribunal sitting on the petition filed by Dr Olusegun Mimiko of the LP.

Mimiko, a former Housing and Urban Development Minister is asking the Tribunal to nullify Agagu’s purported victory and declare him as governor instead. Anxiety has mounted in Ondo State following the expected ruling of the Tribunal this week.

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In a release issued to the Press by LP and signed by its Director of Press, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, the Party disclosed that the latest from the arsenal of the embattled Dr Agagu which was the resolution of a meeting held in the Government House on Monday night and presided over by Mr. Femi Agagu, the governor younger brother who also doubles as the Chief of Staff
to the governor, was the burning of the personal buildings of the Deputy Governor, Mr. Omolade Oluwateu, who is already on the verge of being prosecuted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for allegedly snatching ballot materials in his Akure home during the election, a conduct which has reportedly but a wedge between him and his boss.

Says Olabisi: “Also to go up in flames, if their dastardly acts sail through, is the office complex of the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Isaacs Kekemeke. Kekemeke’s sins include the infamous killing of Waribi Idepe, a part 3 student of Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko during the election in his Ese-Odo hometown by a faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and the kidnapping of eleven PDP chieftains by the same militants over the failure of Kekemeke to fulfill the N500million fees he negotiated with the militants to facilitate their rigging election for Agagu in the area. These acts of the SSG has, according to sources at the meeting, done irreparable damage to Agagu case hence, he must be punished.

“The embattled Attorney-General, Mr. Yemi Alao who was also chided by the Tribunal for not only actively participating in the hijacking of election during the April 14 and 21, 2007 elections but also for in flagrant abuse of the Electoral Acts 2006, signing results sheets and action which severally drew the ire of the Tribunal which lampooned his conducts which it noted was unwholesome for a State’s chief Legal officer would also have his house razed.

“What would be done by Agagu’s minions after the setting ablaze these buildings along with others will be to pin it on LP members who would be made the fall guys. We are now alerting the security agents in the State to be aware of this latest in the numerous antics of the sinking administration of Dr Agagu and to know who to blame when the time comes.“Indeed, we want to call on Mr. President, to as a matter of urgency call on Dr Agagu to obey his oath of office as the chief security officer of the State. He should protect the people irrespective of their political leanings and should not be seen to be breaching the very security he is supposed to protect. We have furnished all the security agencies with concrete proofs of how Dr Agagu has been undermining the security of Ondo State. Enough is enough. He should allow the Tribunal to do its duty and be charitable enough to take his fate with equanimity rather than embarking on this descent into the Stone Age

 

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