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Labour Party to Agagu, ‘let The Court Determine who Won OndoGuber Election’The Ondo State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has lambasted Dr. Olusegun Agagu over snide comments he has been making in the media against the party and its gubernatorial candidate, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, in his desperate attempt to buy legitimacy for the massive rigging which brought him in as governor of the State during the April 14, 2007 gubernatorial election.Specifically, LP urged the embattled governor not to assume the position of a judge in his own matter but rather to wait for the outcome of the petition against his purported victory at the disputed election which is already before the Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Akure, the State capital.It equally warned Agagu to stop wasting billions of taxpayers’ money on a wild goose chase while the welfare and happiness of the people of Ondo State which should be his priority are being neglected.Agagu had last week took 6 out of the 13 gubernatorial candidates who contested the April 14 election in Ondo State to far away Abuja where he addressed a press conference and attempted to cast aspersions on the person of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko and the LP in his desperate attempt to gloss away the fact that he won the election through the barrel of guns and with the active connivance of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) which concocted results for him even where elections were not allowed to hold.In its official reaction to Agagu’s latest antics over the weekend, the Labour Party while warning that Agagu’s comments and actions are subjudice as the matter he has been commenting on was already in court insisted that it was therefore illegal for him to talk on it either on the television or in the newspapers as he had done at the Abuja press conference and other interviews which he has continue to grant.According to a release issued by the party’s Director of Press, Mr. Kolawole Olabisi, Agagu’s action depicted a desperate man who would do anything including cutting corners to hang unto a mandate that was not given to him by the people of Ondo State who voted him out on April 14 having failed to give them the dividends of democracy despite the fact that he collected over N250 billion as allocation in his first term in office.Said he: “Since the announcement of the gubernatorial election results in Ondo State, Dr. Agagu has been busy telling the world WHY he won the election and notHOW he won it. He has thus spent more time campaigning after the election than before the election became of HOW he won.“His latest antic is to give the impression that the gubernatorial candidates of six out of the 13 political parties which contested the April 14, 2007 gubernatorial election in Ondo State have seen the wisdom in accepting the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC’s) manufactured results and team up with the PDP to work with Agagu. “Going by the concocted results that gave Dr. Olusegun Agagu the position of a temporary governor of Ondo State, all the gubernatorial candidates of the six political parties combined are Lilliputians. The statistics, even from this contentious INEC results, show that all of them put together scored a paltry eight percent (8%) of the total votes cast in the State during the April 14, 2007 gubernatorial election.According to Olabisi, the situation in Akure, the State Capital and, therefore, the melting pot of all the citizens of Ondo State, is more revealing of the political irrelevance of the 6 candidates “as all the6 political parties scored only 5,568! And even if we add the vote of the PDP, all the seven parties (PDP inclusive), scored 28,500 votes while the Labour Party alone scored 34,209 votes.”He, therefore, noted that from all these, it was clear that the six political parties have no mandate “and therefore have nothing to lose for supporting illegality and indeed, the six Governorship candidates did not have the mandate of their political parties to assist Agagu to legalize illegality (without exception, leaders of all the six political parties have since washed their hands off these lightweight politicians).”The Labour Party equally denied insinuations that it has embarked on negotiations with some traditional rulers over the April 14 elections saying that neither the Labour Party nor its flag bearer, Dr. OlusegunMimiko, was prepared to trade off the wishes of the people of Ondo State who voted massively for Mimiko.“The recent publications that a delegation of traditional rulers had met Dr. Mimiko in this regard have no basis in fact. While we appreciate the role of the traditional rulers in ensuring peace in their domains, we want to appeal to them to allow righteousness and justice to guide their action in this matter,” the party stated.It, therefore, appealed to the people of the State to remain calm and be law abiding adding that it is taking all constitutional and legal steps to reclaim the mandate freely given to it by them on April 14,2007.
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