I trust the typical Nigerian politician he would take is pound of flesh from Agagu by iniciating various forms of Probes. Congrats all the same

Here is a lesson for all of you. Whether right or wrong, always hire a damn good lawyer!

debosky:

@ Luca

Do you mean South West?

This marks a second candidate foisted on a state against it's will - Osunbor and then Agagu. Akala might be getting jittery now, though I think in Oyinlola's case, he has a pretty solid base in Osun.

yes i meant the southwest,it was a typho but thanks
akala might be getting jittery if there was any strong opposition,i dont see ajimobi as that strong of an opposition especially as anpp is in disaray,maybe this might ginger them up,or knowing tinubu he ll just get the anpp to merge with ac, worked so far, i share your opinion on osun state as well,even though oyinlola didnt win

WHY AGAGU COULD NOT HAVE WON AT THE ELECTION PETITION
TRIBUNAL

Sequel to the torrents of sponsored political propaganda and misinformation from Dr. Olusegun
Agagu and his henchmen in the Ondo State government, since the Ondo State Election Petitions
Tribunal, led by the courageous Justice Garba Nabaruma, delivered his well considered and
widely celebrated judgement in the petition of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, against the purported and
pyrrhic victory of Dr. Olusegun Agagu, it has therefore become pertinent to bring to the fore
and debunk in clear terms some of the crying insinuations of the Agagu government vis-à-vis the
historic judgement:

1. Through multi-media analysis, ninety thousand (90,000) of the so called
“disenfranchised” people, whose “votes” were cancelled by the Tribunal included
the Vice President of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan; the Chief Justice of Nigeria,
Legbo Kutigi; Apostle Ayo Babalola who passed on to glory fifty years ago; the
musical legend, Michael Jackson; world boxing heroes like Mohammed Ali and Mike
Tyson; Gen. Oladipo Diya; Mrs. Cecilia Ibru; Mr. Sam Omatsheye; Governor of
Lagos State, Mr. Raji Fashola,; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro; then National Chairman
of PDP, Senator Ahmadu Ali; INEC Chairman, Prof. Maurice Iwu; Governor Peter
Obi of Anambra State; infants and under aged children; palm kernels and other
objects. And they ALL VOTED in Ondo State for Dr. Agagu at the April 14, 2007
elections!

2. Prior to the determination of the governorship petition, Dr. Agagu’s men, in the
petitions that went through full trial, had lost seven of their fifteen House of
Assembly seats and six of their eight House of Representatives seats, as well as the
only contested Senate seat of the Central Senatorial District, to the LP. This is in
contrast to the fact that ALL of the petitions brought against the nine seats won by
the LP in the House of Assembly elections by the Agagu men were dismissed for
lacking merit. Meaning the LP won clean and clear in the areas where lawful
elections took place.

3. Five of the Assembly seats lost by Agagu’s men were out of the six seats from the
Southern Senatorial District which constitute the main area where unlawful
governorship “votes” were nullified. It is instructive to note that all of these seats
were voided by the second Tribunal, headed by Justice Joseph Ikiegh.

4. None of these judgments, in both Tribunals, had any dissenting voice. All were
unanimous, implying that there were fundamental reasons that made the
cancellation of invalid votes inevitable.

5. Twenty two (22) public office holders, against Section 46, sub section 1 of the
Electoral Act 2006, signed result sheets across the disputed areas. These include
Mr. Ayo Ifayefunmi, then Agagu’s Commissioner for Agriculture who signed the
overall result from Irele Local Government; Mr. Agboola Ajayi, Chairman of Ese-
Odo Local Government at the time of election also signed results from Ese-Odo
LG; Barrister Enikuomehin, Special Assistant to Dr. Agagu, signed results from Ilaje
LG; Mr. Ola Oguntimehin, another Special Assistant to Dr. Agagu also signed
results from Okitipupa LG; and Mr. Yemi Alao, the Attorney General and
Commissioner for Justice, who ordinarily as the State’s Chief Law Officer was
expected to understand the law, signed result sheets in Akoko North-West, his
Local Government.

6. None of these men who signed the result sheets considered their principal’s case
good enough to defend it because when the Tribunal invited them to defend
themselves, none of them showed up. They all bolted away and melted into thin air.
In fact, Secretary to the State Government, Isaac Kekemeke, who was subpoenaed
to give evidence, was within the Tribunal premises until a few minutes before he
was to be called, only for the judges to be told that he was pressed and had to go
and ease himself. He never showed up at the Tribunal! In fact, no notable witness
was called by Agagu to defend his case. For example, Yejide Ogundipe, a lawyer and
Local Government Chairman of Ile Oluji-Oke Igbo, one of Agagu’s witnesses,
abandoned the 30-page affidavit she deposed to.

7. Whereas Dr. Mimiko engaged internationally acclaimed forensic and finger print
experts, including the world renowned Adrian Forty, with 32years experience at
Scotland Yard, to prosecute his case, Dr. Agagu, could only field one Professor,
who turned out to be FAKE. He was immediately denounced by the Lagos State
University , LASU, and the University of Lagos , UNILAG, where he claimed to
have gotten his professorship from. Agagu’s second expert witness, one Dr.
Temidayo Apata from the Joseph Ayo Babalola University , JABU, capitulated under
cross examination, abandoned his statement on oath, and asked that his
evidences/reports be discarded. The third “expert”, Prof. Charles Akinyokun, of
the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA, abandoned his statement on
oath and refused to appear at the Tribunal.

8. Whereas Dr, Mimiko, LP’s gubernatorial candidate, now Governor-elect, and the
LP State Chairman, Dr. Olaiya Oni, personally gave evidences before the Tribunal,
neither Dr. Agagu nor Dr. Tayo Dairo, PDP State Chairman, who has now
embarked on spurious advertorials, could muster the courage to appear before the
Tribunal

9. Whereas Dr. Mimiko deployed internationally renowned forensic experts to prove
his case, Dr. Agagu got permission to do forensic examination but he chickened
out, when he was confronted with scary discoveries made by his own forensic
experts.

10. Going by the inability of most of Agagu’s witnesses to replicate before the Tribunal,
the signatures on the statements/affidavits they were supposed to have earlier
deposed to, it became evident that, contrary to the law of the land, the
statements/affidavits were done and signed on their behalf.

11. Most of the nullified unlawful votes were those endorsed with the stamps of the
defunct FEDECO, NECON and NEC. Worse still, the stamp of the National Union
of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and that of DEXSO, a furniture making
outfit in the State were used on results in most parts of the Southern Senatorial
District where unlawful votes were voided

12. Out of the total figure of two hundred and seventy six thousand, nine hundred and
thirty eight (276, 938) votes declared in the petitioned areas, only One hundred
and fifty two thousand, four hundred and seventy four (152, 474) ballot papers
were physically counted during the recounting exercise ordered by the Tribunal.
This translates to a false declaration of One hundred and twenty four thousand,
four hundred and sixty four (124, 464) excess votes for Dr. Agagu. Dr. Mimiko was
able to prove through this that votes were merely allocated for Agagu.

13. Dr. Mimiko was able to produce unused voter cards where Dr. Agagu claimed to
have scored, in many cases, a hundred percent votes. Through this, he was able to
prove that registered voters were not allowed to vote in the affected areas,
thereby making purported votes declared for Dr. Agagu to be invalid, in line with
Section 179, sub section 2, of the Electoral Act 2006.

14. Whereas Dr. Mimiko tendered more than two thousand (2000) documentary
evidences to prove how he won the election, Dr. Agagu could only tender less than
twenty (weak and mostly irrelevant) documents to defend how he won the
election.

15. Dr. Mimiko clearly won where lawful election took place. For instance, his 34,209
votes in Akure, the State capital, where election observers monitored the process,
was more than the 28,500 votes scored by all the other seven contestants,
including Dr. Agagu, put together.

16. Rather than concentrate on prosecuting his case at the Tribunal, Dr. Agagu chose
some other unconventional ways which ultimately failed because of the strength of
character of members of the Tribunal. It is on record that Justice Ikiegh, the
Chairman of the second panel openly castigated “some people” trying to bribe
them with N100million. If Agagu’s team lost fourteen (14) of the eighteen (18)
cases that went through full trial, then it’s obvious where the desperate bribery
attempts were coming from.


Conclusion

As noted by Mimiko’s lead counsel, Dr. Agagu’s defence at the Tribunal was like a motorcycle,
which could not have stood on the way of Dr. Mimiko’s moving train of evidences. It was simply
a battle meant to be lost by Dr. Agagu.
Rather that engage in its present show of shame (of the discredited rent a crowd syndrome;
wasting public funds on spurious advertorials; abuse of the Nigerian Judiciary, etc,) which is
borne out of frustration, Dr. Olusegun Agagu should go ahead, if he thinks he has any ground of
appeal, and file his appeal against the judgement. We have no doubt that Dr. Olusegun Mimiko
will be sworn-in as the Governor of Ondo State, hours after the verdict of the Court of Appeal.
Facts, they say, never lie. The people shall win again.

Dr. Olaiya Oni
Chairman,
Labour Party, Ondo State .



I just searched this on http://mimikoforgovernor.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/why-agagu-did-not-win.pdf     I haven't even read it yet but I guess it sheds some light too.

yea,baby,yea.

add this to fashola's Lagos and Oshiomole's Edo.can't wait for Fayemi's Ekiti.change is gonna come.

YES WE CAN

aieromon:

yea,baby,yea.

add this to fashola's Lagos and Oshiomole's Edo.can't wait for Fayemi's Ekiti.change is gonna come.

YES WE CAN

YES WE CAN
I'm proud to be from Ondo state

Since Yar'Aduas election was upheld by the courts, why are they nullifying the election of a small thief (Agagu), while the biggest thief was set free.

my link is from fidipote, and i wish mimiko all the best.

Crude Oil:

Since Yar'Aduas election was upheld by the courts, why are they nullifying the election of a small thief (Agagu), while the biggest thief was set free.

good question

Found this interesting post on Mimikoforgovernor.com, and I think I should share it on this forum.
The writer is Omotaylor.


Martin Luther King, Jr. Sends The New Ondo State A Message from Beyond

“Let’s Share My Dream”

On the occasion of the victorious and final Declaration of Dr Olusegun Mimiko as Governor of Ondo State - 23rd February, 2009

I am indeed happy to join with you all today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for democracy and freedom in the history of Ondo State. I unite with you in soul as I send this congratulatory message of hope, reason, and wisdom today.
Your elected and ratified Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, a great Statesman, over two years ago, made a Declaration of intent which was synonymous to an emancipation proclamation. This momentous Declaration came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Ondo State indigenes who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice, poverty and alienation. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But almost two years later, the truth remained elusive. Two years later, the fight for the just verdict of who held the people’s mandate raged on. But in the meantime, the lives of the people were still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of corruption. Two years later, the people of Ondo State very unjustifiably continued to live on a lonely highway of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity kept away for some. They were still languishing in the corners of the village squares and find themselves exiles in their own lands.
It is unfortunate and sad that for so long the people of Ondo State have been given instead, a bad check, a check which had come back marked “insufficient funds.” But we refused to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refused to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this State. And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice in Ondo State. And so we’ve come here today to rightfully claim the people’s mandate as bestowed on Dr Olusegun Mimiko. This Mandate in a sense is a promise that the people of Ondo State would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
As we collect this hallowed Mandate; we have also come to this hallowed spot to remind all the people of Ondo State about the fierce urgency of NOW. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. NOW is the time to make real the promises of democracy. NOW is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of looting and corruption to the sunlit path of integrity governance. NOW is the time to lift Ondo State from the quicksands of class division to the solid rock of brotherhood. NOW is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.
It would be fatal for the new Ondo State to overlook the urgency of the moment. 23rd February 2009 is not an end, but a beginning. And those who had hoped that the accredited party in Ondo State (Labour Party) needed to blow off steam will have a rude awakening as Ondo State returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in this State until the undertrodden and lowly are granted their rights of worthiness. The whirlwinds of change will continue to shake the foundations of our State until the bright day of justice and emancipation emerges.
But there is something that we must say to the people, as they stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our governance on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force even as we are put to the test. Let us all come to a realization that our destiny is tied up with one another’s destiny’ and our freedom are inextricably bound together.
We cannot walk alone.
And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.
We cannot turn back.
There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, “When will you be satisfied?” We can never be satisfied as long as the poor man is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of brutal governance. We can never be satisfied as long as our children cannot gain admission into the schools of their choice. We cannot be satisfied as long as the farmers have no crops to sow. We can never be satisfied as long as our hospitals are ill equipped and become death houses. We cannot be satisfied as long as the votes of the ordinary people are not allowed to count. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until “justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
We are not unmindful that many have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some have come fresh from hiding. And some of you have come from areas where your quest — quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of political brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Now you can go back home knowing that somehow this situation can and has changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, as we gather today friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, we still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the New Ondo State dream.
We have a dream that one day Ondo State will rise up and live out the true meaning of its name “Sunshine State”.
We have a dream that one day on the brown hills of Idanre, tourists and visitors will mingle with the local people in economic bliss.
We have a dream that one day every town in Ondo State, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
We have a dream that one day all our children will wander freely without fear of kidnappers and cultists.
We have a dream today!
We have a dream that very soon right inside Alagbaka would commence an all including governance of integrity, openness and fairness.
We have a dream today!
We have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; “and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.”
This is our hope, and this is the faith that follows, guides and leads our latest governor from the South West, Dr Olusegun Mimiko.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair left by the past usurping governor, a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of Ondo State into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, and to fight together, to continue to stand up for freedom together, knowing that Ondo State would be truly and fully emancipated one day.
Today is D-day, when all of God’s children will be able to sing with new meaning:
Kile le se Olorun Awa, kile le se?
Kile le se Olorun Awa, kile le se?
Eyin ti e da aiye atorun Kile le se?
Kile le se Olorun Awa, kile le se?

And if Ondo State is to be a great State, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of Idanre.
Let freedom ring from the mighty Oyemekun Rocks of Akure.
Let freedom ring from the Oke Maria Oka Hills of Akoko South West.
Let freedom ring from the monumental palace of the Deji of Akure,
Let freedom ring from the Ebomi Lake of Ikpesi Akoko.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from the Alagbaka Cenotaph of Akure
Let freedom ring from the Caves of Ashes of Isharun.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Ile-Oluji
From every mountain side, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every home, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, regardless of creed, religion and age; will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the Yoruba Spiritual Song:
Osuba re re o, Osuba re re o
Oba ta o ri, ta nri se owo re, Osuba re re o.

Compiled by Omotaylor on the Occasion of the Victorious and Final Pronouncement of Dr Olusegun Mimiko as the Duly Elected Governor of Ondo State on 23rd February 2009.
Source: Martin Luther King Jn. – I HAVE A DREAM.

Crude Oil:

Since Yar'Aduas election was upheld by the courts, why are they nullifying the election of a small thief (Agagu), while the biggest thief was set free.

Let's start with the cubs and we will surely get to the lion.

Naijex:

Let's start with the cubs and we will surely get to the lion.

I disagree. The easiest way of getting the cubs is by getting the lion(ess) FIRST.

The judiciary are unpredictable.They've suddenly waken up from slumber.Before you know,they will go back to sleep,the next minute they are confuse.God help our judiciary.My warm congrat to Governor Mimiko.

since Yar'Aduas election was upheld by the courts, why are they nullifying the election of a small thief (Agagu), while the biggest thief was set free.

buharri and atiku did not work half as hard enuogh as Mimiko did before and after the election, atiku tought it was by money while buhari was depending on past glory, Mimiko achieved this by hard work.

i am extremely happy about the verdict in my state and i pray that this would be just the beginning of the much awaited good things to happen there.

Chai o!

I pray this ruling marks the begining of good governance all over nigeria.

can I hear an amen on this thread?

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tpia:

they stoned the old governor's motorcade?

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/feb/24/national-24-02-2009-21.htm

Thats too much nah. People should try to act civil.

though the ex governor should have moved out before the verdict just in case it went against him. Like it did.

you are never as good as they ay you are when you win, and you are never as bad as they are you are when you lose