“If (Olusegun) Agagu has no lesson to learn from the likes of Prof. Osunbor, who after having his purported election upturned has found other engagements to do, then we recommend that he pay a visit to the right experts to seek advice on post-hallucination syndrome and related after-effects of deflated ego.”
This aptly summarised a statement issued at the weekend by the Ondo State Government on the allegation by former governor of the state, Olusegun Agagu, that Mimiko's victory was facilitated by fake security report presented to the judge.
The statement entitled: “Are these men without shame,” was issued on behalf of the government by Information Commissioner, Ranti Akerele and Aderemi Olatubora, a member of Dr. Mimiko’s legal team and current Chairman, Ondo Sports Council.
It reads: “The Ondo State government views a recent heresy by former governor, Segun Agagu, on the settled matter of April 2007 governorship election in Ondo State as an attention-seeking effort aimed at deceiving the unwary and distracting the government.
“Government considers the statement credited to Agagu that the judgment, which up-ended his electoral usurpation and upturned his reign of the lawless in Ondo State was premised on a security report as yet another shameless lie, a fabrication of unimaginable proportion and a characteristic decoy by a man who has been known to concoct just anything for political gains.
“We state without equivocation that in all of the over 600 pages of erudite analysis of facts and judgment, the Justice Garba Nabaruma-led Governorship Election Tribunal did not rely on any security report as speciously alleged by Dr. Agagu. Not even once was the issue of security report alluded to as a ground for the nullification of what the whole world knew was an electoral heist.
“What the Nabaruma-led panel did was to examine the ballot papers purportedly used in the polling units and the elections results issued from the disputed units, or wards, or local council, whichever applied, vis-à-vis the declared results. In most of the instances, it was found that there was no correlation, no matter how vague, between the number of registered voters, the ballot papers and results purportedly returned.
“For instance, to underline the falsehood in the ‘victory’ fraudulently claimed by Agagu for more than 22 months, it was found that where the number of registered voters was 250, purportedly used ballot papers and returned votes were more than 600. What then has security report to do with unconscionable manipulation of figures, blatant falsification of results and the usurpation of the sovereign will of the people as carried out by the Agagu crowd? The question we ask is this: in such an instance and several others of similar pattern what has security report got to do with cancellation. We are sure that with an election close by, Agagu in order to be seen as relevant politically wants to drag the Federal Government and indeed the security agencies now firmly in the hands of PDP apparatchik, into another round of false alarms and victimisation of political opponents.”
Mimiko went on: “Is Agagu just waking up from his slumber? We recall that Agagu paraded some of the most outstanding Senior Advocates of Nigeria like Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), Adelodun (SAN), Adedipe (SAN), Fakunle (SAN), Dodo (SAN), Iziyon (SAN) and Akintola (SAN) and over 60 other senior lawyers at the tribunal. Is he in any way insinuating incompetence on the part of these respected lawyers who made no bone with the issue of security report? Just for the purpose of enlightenment, it is a fact that the ‘security report’ was tendered in the presence of lawyers on both sides of the Ondo electoral dispute. We wonder why in a matter as important as a Governorship dispute and after the SSS refused to own up to originating the tendered security report, a reality that was not believed by the tribunal, Agagu and his motley of vote thieves did not present the ‘true security report’ or any report in place of what it claimed was false.
“It’s a known fact that both Mimiko and Agagu pleaded to tender Security reports to back their facts before the Tribunal, only for the PDP lawyers to capitulate and hurriedly close their case. We know however that in deciding that the report was genuine and so acceptable, the tribunal examined the evidence on oath by the SSS before coming to the conclusion that the document was genuine. The acceptance of the report all knew was done after a thorough scrutiny and judicial evaluation, which explains why the issue of the security report was never raised again for more than 18 months of litigations.”
Mimiko added: “This show of shame by Agagu further underlines the need to criminalise electoral fraud as we have consistently canvassed. If the likes of Agagu were in jail for all the malpractices perpetrated in the April 2007 election, the signal would have been sent that evil ought not to be treated with kid gloves.


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