Olusegun Agagu

The embattled governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Agagu has been advised to resign his position immediately and stop wasting the State’s resources on sponsored media advertorials and hack writings attacking the judiciary as well organizing made-to-match solidarity rallies in his desperation to hang unto his illegal mandate.

The Labour Party (LP), whose Flag bearer, Dr Olusegun Mimiko was declared as the duly elected Governor of the State by the Justice Garba Nabaruma led Election Petition Tribunal on July 25, 2008, in asking the Agagu to resign forthwith noted that from the insinuations from Agagu’s camp last Thursday, in which it alleged that the LP was frustrating Agagu’s appeal at the appellate court, it was obvious that they had no ground of appeal and should just hand over to the real owner of the mandate.

“Now that the media has shown the whole world that contrary to Agagu’s lies that the Nabaruma’s judgment was skewed in Mimiko’s favour with the publication of the 607 page judgment  last week it is now obvious that Agagu has no answer for the judgment. And judging from the asinine comments and vitriolic attacks on the Judiciary ever since the landmark judgment, and from their spurious and wild allegation that we are behind their woes in filing their appeal against the judgment, its obvious that they are just buying time,” the LP spokesman, Kolawole Olabisi said in a release issued to journalists in Akure on Sunday.

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Similarly, LP disclosed that Agagu on Friday released a whopping N25million to the faction of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) which kidnapped nine of the PDP members in Ese-Odo Local Government including two of his Secretary to State Government (SSG) brothers.

This, according to the LP is one of the ills brought to the State by Agagu when in his desperation to rig the April 14, 2007 election he brought in all manners of people to do just that for him and now, he is spending millions of taxpayers’ money to contain his rapacious aides whom he has failed to cater for after they had performed their part.

Says Olabisi, “in the last three weeks, Agagu has expended over N3billion taxpayers money in his failed attempt to subvert the wish of people. He has embarked on throwing money at people he hoped would help him bribe the judiciary in Abuja, he has put up a plethora of paid advertorials, hired hack writers, organized sponsored rallies by gun tottering thugs who even beat up civil servants at the State Secretariat during one of such rallies last week for supporting Mimiko.

“For Agagu, the game is up and he should hand over immediately as ordered by the Tribunal rather than embarking on another round of futile exercise that would also gulp billions of naira which ought to have been used to better the lot of the harried masses by a caring governor. Our warning is that for every kobo of the State spent, Agagu would be made to account for in the fullness of time. He had embarked on concerted looting of the State treasury and government properties when it dawned on him that the game is up; our advise to him is to bow out now when the ovation is loudest because he will fail at the appeal court like he did at the Election Petition Tribunal which had sealed his fate and exposed the monumental fraud he perpetrated on April 14, 2007.”