Appeal: Hang your head in shame, LP tells Agagu

…urges him to wait for final verdict

Olusegun Agagu

The Ondo State Chapter of the Labour Party (LP), on Wednesday lambasted the embattled State Governor, Dr Olusegun Agagu asking him to hang his head in shame for the woes he had brought unto the people of the State by his misrule in the last five years rather than making spiteful remarks over a case which he personally instituted at the Court of Appeal.

Specifically, LP, in a release issued by its Director of Press, Research and Strategy, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi in Akure described the comments of Agagu on Tuesday in which he tried to explain away the victory of Governor Adams Oshimhole at the Appeal Court over his PDP’s colleague, Oserheimen Osunbor as not only a contempt of Court but an affront on the people of Ondo State whose mandate he stole in broad daylight on April 14, 2007.

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Agagu, whose purported election victory in the April 14, 2007 election was nullified on July 25 by the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure, had headed for the Appeal Court, Benin seeking for the invalidation of the judgement, on Tuesday attempted to create a distinction between the Appeal Court Judgement that upheld the victory of Action Congress’s Candidate, Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State. He boasted that he would win his case at the Appeal Court.

But to the LP, whose candidate, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, was declared as the winner of the April 14, 2007 election in the State, the continued posturing of Agagu and his cohort over an election which had been proven over 14 months at the Election Tribunal that they never won, showed them as a bunch of shameless people, undeserving of the lofty position that they found themselves in the society.

Says Olabisi: “In African society, when a thief is caught red-handed with his loots, he quickly surrenders his loots and is ordered to make restitution for his sins. That is our custom, untainted by civilization; but in Ondo State, Agagu and his minions were caught red-handed with another man’s mandate, rather than making restitutions for their sins and surrender what they stole, they became haughty and went strutting about even lambasting the Judiciary, this is un-African.

“While we in Labour Party, as law abiding citizens of Nigeria, would not want to join issues with Agagu on a matter that is already in court, we want to advise him and his fellow lawbreakers that they should wait for the outcome of the judgement at the Appeal Court. We are further reassured in our resolve as firm believer in the nation’s Judiciary, as opposed to Agagu and his cohort who are always looking for a way to compromised the Judiciary with their tarnished dross, by the stance of the Judiciary to be above board as seen in the Edo State’s landmark judgement and others before it. Agagu should allow the rule of law and due process to reign supreme. Let him not jump the gun. He lost at the Akure Election Petitions Tribunal on July 25, he shall meet his waterloo again in Benin pretty soon,” Olabisi added.