Mimiko will never withdraw case from Tribunal- LP

The Ondo State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has warned the Dr Olusegun Agagu led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Government in the State to perish the thought that its flag bearer in the April 14, 2007 governorship election Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, will withdraw it case from the tribunal.

The party which spoke on the heel of spates of rumours being bandied about by the Agagu government in a section of the media since Monday this week that Dr Mimiko has decided to step down for Agagu by withdrawing his case from the Justice Garba Nabaruma led Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

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But in a release issued in Akure by its Director of Press, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi on Thursday, LP chided the Agagu regime for the bare-faced lies and deceit which it noted had become the cornerstone of the drowning Agagu government ever since Dr Mimiko went to the Election Petition Tribunal asking it to declare him as the lawful winner of the April 14, 2007 in the State.“It its sad that a government whose officials, including Agagu himself, had swore before God and man on the pages of newspapers and on sponsored prime television programmes that it won the said election and one which made several underhand attempts to subvert the popular mandate given to Dr Mimiko on April 14, last year is now trying to get what it has been unable to get legitimately through bare-faced lies and deceit which had become its very second nature.

“What happened on Monday was that Dr Olusegun Mimiko closed his case at the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure over the petition in which he is asking it to set aside Agagu’s phantom victory and instead, declare him as winner having satisfied the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2006 by winning the majority of lawful votes cast in the election. Agagu will in return commence the defense of his so-called victory from Monday, April 7, 2007. So how does this translate into Mimiko stepping down for Agagu? Except of course in Agagu and his minions usual warped thinking,” the party stated.

The LP therefore urged its teeming supporters home and abroad to discountenance this “evil and wicked rumour as it is the handiwork of the Agagu’s administration which will like the ones before it in the recent past fail.”

 Adding:“Our case is on course and the ways and manners in which the popular wish of the people of Ondo State as given to Dr Mimiko on April 14 was subverted are being exposed and very soon, the Tribunal will rule on the matter and victory will surely be ours because the Judiciary has proved severally that it will not allow itself to be used by those who flout the law with impunity.”