Ondo LP Replies Agagu On Adegoke's Comments

Governor Olusegun Agagu

The Labour Party, Ondo State, has condemned the recent press conference granted by Chief Segun Adegoke, the Political Adviser to Governor Olusegun Agagu,  in which he  accused the Party and its gubernatorial candidate in the April 14 election, Dr Olusegun
Mimiko, of every conceivable crime saying that the development is distractive.

In a release issued by its Director of Press on Monday, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, LP insisted that Adegoke’s statements was meant to lay the ground for the series of violence against its members which started earnestly immediate after he addressed the press penultimate Thursday as elucidated by the attacks on its Legal team.

“Labour Party condemns in the strongest terms this latest act in the now well-known proclivity of Agagu and his team for Campaign-after-Election. Any perceptive observer would know that the intention is, as usual, less than honourable, the motive outrightly sinister and the objective wholly distractive. But
more importantly, in line with the way of the Agagu government, the Press Statement presages the imminence of some satanic courses of action on the part of the government, which full import Nigerians will begin to see in no time, except these purveyors of evil are stopped in their track.

According to Olabisi, when Adegoke addressed Press in Akure on the supposed intention of the LP to disturb the peace of the State, LP got information that the action was a prelude to unleashing a horde of PDP thugs adorned with LP vests on the State.“The Agagu government had earlier gone to produce the vests at a location in Lagos. The idea was to give the impression that the LP was unruly and violent and did not want the Election Petition Tribunal to work. We quickly alerted the security forces on this discovery and the plan of the government to attack our leaders and members of our legal team. We had thought that was enough to dissuade the State Government from its sinister moves, the LP spokesman stated adding:“Significantly, less than 42 hours after we cried out on these satanic plans, the country home of the head of the Mimiko legal team, Chief Wole Olanipekun was burnt down at Ikere-Ekiti, a distance of less than 30 minutes from Akure. During the same week, Dr. Olumide Ayeni, a lawyer holding the brief of Olanipekun, was trailed to his hotel room in Akure by assassins and only managed to escape by the grace of God. In company of another colleague of his on the legal team, Barrister Remi Olatubora, Dr. Ayeni was again waylaid by another team of hooded assassins on their way from Abuja on Friday 17th.  They escaped death by the whiskers.”

According to Olabisi, in the warped imagination of Agagu’s Political Adviser, “any crime committed by any person identifiable with Ondo State, no matter how tangentially, is now either sponsored, traceable or done on behalf of the LP and its gubernatorial candidate! It no longer matters whether such infractions took place in locations as far away as Oshogbo, Lagos or wherever. The question that comes to mind on this is, who then voted for Agagu to earn him the landslide victory he claims he won if every Ondo State citizen or any person connected to Ondo State all now act on behalf of the LP and Dr Mimiko? What additional evidence of who in the State is the midwife of violence does anybody require in the context in which key aides of Governor Agagu, including Personal Assistants, Chairmen of parastatals and Chairmen of Local Government, were the ones apprehended across the State by security agencies before, during and after the April elections?”

While noting that LP was not in the least bothered by Adegoke’s tirades as it were, Olabisi posited that the it was an admission of desperation on the part of Agagu “who for obvious reasons is becoming more uncomfortable as the day of decision draws nearer at the Election Petition Tribunal. It is one more huge effort on the part of the sinking team at distracting everybody.”

To him one would have thought that Adegoke as a lawyer ought to have been sensitive to the libelous
implications of the Agagu write-up to which he nevertheless appended his signature. “What does one expect of a man who less than four years ago had this to say of his current paymaster:“Apart from the fact that Dr. Agagu is naturally repulsive and insensitive to the plight and lot of fellow human beings, he has the ill-fate of bad things taking place wherever and whenever he serves in any public office … Behaviourally, Dr Agagu can be deceptive and chameleonic, a man of several faces; he is very generous with cheers and laughter but beneath his inner-most heart is malice, animosity, self-aggrandizement, egoistic tendencies, care-free attitude and reckless posture toward humanity; a silent reveler, even in the face of pressing official duties”.

The LP, Olabisi however, noted, would for the umpteenth time, like to appeal to Governor Agagu to allow the Election Petitions Tribunal to do its work.“Rather than wasting Ondo State funds (by his own admission, Fourteen Billion Naira in the last three months) on puerile propaganda and his Campaign-after-Election, he should await the judgment of the Tribunal. We also would like to seize this opportunity to call on the security forces to pay more attention to Ondo State especially with this latest outing of the Agagu government as similar efforts in the past have proven to be but a carefully orchestrated effort to justify subsequent satanic acts.”