I have also always wondered if our dear Governor reads our posts. I know he would be so so tied up with the business of “fixing up” our dear State, so I pray someone alerts his information officer to visit this site and pass worthy comments to His Excellency. As it is a government for the people, we the people have chosen to be involved via the net and you never know where wisdom will come from.

I am still waiting for your inputs and answers to my question on my mail dated 26th March above. Very important that we share.
@Ola, thanks for your support. I eagerly await your comments.

To my people, please let us all be patient, prayerful and content. Let us not let internal wranglings spoil a good thing. PDP must not say “I told you so” or “Ko tan nidi won”. Not everybody can be given positions. I do agree that the government of Governor Mimiko should consider the worthy people and be very
diversified. Nevertheless, it is only God that is a giver of all good things. Whatever God has sanctioned for us will never pass us by. Even if we feel cheated, let us continue to give 100% support in our own private ways to the Government of Dr Mimiko, for it is the people that we want to assist, and we want our State to become a model state and very successful. God will put all the right people in the right places in Ondo State, not for the sake of individuals, but for THE SAKE OF THE PEOPLE, AMEN.

PEACE MY PEOPLE FOR IT IS WELL.

God bless Nigeria

19 Political parties agree on mega partyFrom Chuks Okocha in Abuja, 03.26.2009Thursday, March 26, 2009The expected formation of a mega political party is gradually taking shape with a coalition of 19 political parties’ agreeing to come together. The parties include, faction of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), led by General Muhammadu Buhari,  Action Congress (AC),   Progressive Action Congress (PAC) and  Tunji Braithwaite led Nigeria Action Party (NAP),  Olu Falae led Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA). Peoples Mandate Party (PMP), Alliance for Democracy (AD), Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Labour Party, Progressive Action Congress (PAC) and Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA)among others. The final decision will be taking in Lagos on April 7, where the name, logo and manifesto would be unfolded.It was also gathered that the group behind the mega party would decide to either fuse into a political party, or seek fresh registration from  Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). But there are fears that the action of the proponents may be frustrated by INEC, hence the likely decision of fusing into an existing party. Spokesman of the group, Olubori Obafemi, in a statement, said proponents of the Mega Party  have agreed to “form broad political movement that could engage the anti  peoples’ policies of the PDP, and also contest power on a mega political platform.”MY FIRST WARNING FOR THIS ALLIANCE IS THAT THEY SHOULD LEAVE OUT POWER PLAYS AND ANTICS AND FORGET ABOUT THEMSELVES AND THEIR PARTIES, AND INSTEAD REMEMBER THE NAME NIGERIA, THAT REBRANDED NAME (DONT LAUGH), AND MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL, THE PEOPLE.

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Agagu leaves Government House amidst tight security

By Sunday Aborisade and Femi Makinde, Akure

The ousted governor of Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, on Monday fled the Government House, Akure immediately Dr. Olusegun Mimiko was announced as the duly elected governor of the state by the Court of Appeal sitting in Benin.

The ousted governor was whisked out of the Government House amidst tight security.

His advance party which comprised about five vehicles, left the Government House around 12:48pm. The security men inside the convoy which drove through Oba Adesida Road/Oyemekun Road, responded to shouts of Iroko, Iroko from the supporters of Mimiko who were jubilating on the road.

The ploy to conceal their identity and to ensure smooth passage for their boss paid off as the jubilant crowd gave them smooth passage.

Five minutes after, the convoy of about 16 vehicles in which Agagu and his Chief of Staff, Mr. Femi Agagu, were driven emerged. His car, a Toyota Camry with security number plate was sandwiched by security men who were also shouting “Iroko, Iroko.”

However, some vigilant supporters of the LP, sensing that Agagu was in the car, started shouting, ole, ole, ole.

The occupants of the vehicles in the convoy remained calm as the drivers manoeuvred their way through some barricades on the road.

But some LP supporters loaded in four taxi cabs were seen pursuing and raining abuses on the ousted governor who ruled the state for almost six years.

A source told our correspondent that the convoy avoided passing through Ondo town, which is Mimiko’s home town but he refused to say where the former governor headed.

It was gathered that the former governor who celebrated his 61st birthday a week ago, remained at the Government House based on information that the Justice Umar Abdulahi-led panel was going to order fresh election in the disputed areas.

Meanwhile, the State Secretary of the PDP, Chief Adeyemi Adedipe, described the judgment as a temporary setback for the party. He said that the party would stage a come back in 2013.

Adedipe said, “We take the judgment with utmost equanimity. The party structure will remain intact and we shall be back. What has happened is a temporary setback.”

The leader of the Afenifere, Chief Reuben Fasoranti, described the judgment as a welcome development which he said would strengthen the nation’s democracy.

He said, “That is what we expect. It is the wish of the people and we are very happy about it. Judiciary is very bold and has rekindled the hope of the common man.”

The national Chairman of the Democratic Peoples’ Alliance, Chief Olu Falae, also said that the judgment was expected.

He said, “Justice has prevailed. The will of the people was upheld.”

We salute Mimiko’s victory 25/2/2009

SIR: We salute the courage of the Elections Appeal Tribunal in Benin which upheld the decision of the Ondo State Elections Tribunal to annul the purported election of the impostor governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu and uphold the election of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party as the Governor of Ondo State. By that decision, the judiciary has gone a long way to redress the odium which the conduct of some members in the messy contests that attended the massive electoral fraud of April 2007.

The courts have, once again, exposed the shameful parody the PDP visited on Nigerians in April 2007 in cahoots with a racketeering INEC leadership. The party congratulates Dr. Mimiko, the Executive Governor of Ondo State for withstanding the sustained pressure and blackmail that were employed to make him abandon his mandate for the vote robbers.

We see the happy ending to the Ondo case as a justification of the well-expressed feelings of Ondo people that they voted for Mimiko and not Agagu who stole the mandate in a very ridiculous way that he got palm kernels and other inanimate objects to vote for him in April 2007. We see the present decision of the court of appeal as proving once again, that what was passed as the 2007 election was a grand forgery of a desperate cult called PDP and its tool called INEC. The decision on Ondo has further brought out the farce the country’s electoral system was shamefully reduced to by the PDP and INEC, which led to the installation of illegitimate regimes of electoral thieves in many states that never ever voted for the PDP.

We want to use this opportunity to restate our position that the continued stay of Maurice Iwu, the very purveyor of electoral fraud as the chairman of INEC after the rouge elections he conducted in Nigeria in April 2007, inflicts serious credibility problems on the country’s electoral system. If Iwu, in the quest to satisfy his hunger has not found enough courage to resign after the dirty collaborative work he did with the PDP in 2007 to corrupt and criminalize the country’s electoral system, we see no reason why the present Yar’Adua government pretends that it is oblivious of the danger Iwu poses to the Nigerian electoral process by his continued desecration of the office of the chairman of INEC. We therefore demand the immediate removal of Iwu and his prosecution for the wholesome fraud that has made nonsense of the so-called elections of April 2007. Through the deliberate scam Iwu and the PDP visited on Nigeria, the country’s electoral system has been so disorganized that we fear each state will have to have its individual election dates. This is not to talk of the years lost to impostors and electoral thieves who never were elected but wielded the mandates of the people before they were thrown out.

The continued upturning of stolen electoral mandates that were violently stolen from the people, especially in the South West, is also an indictment on the do and die brand of politics which the erstwhile Obasanjo regime promoted and indeed enforced through the most callous manner. This was what brought several impostors like Agagu to power in many states and accounts for the artificial victories, which the PDP flaunts so impudently about.

We urge Mimiko to ensure that Ondo is put on sound footing again, after the fall of the impostor regime of Agagu and we charge him to make sure that Ondo State is well governed after the Agagu misadventure. We call for the prosecution of Agagu and the INEC staff that collaborated to steal for him the mandate that belongs to Mimiko. We state that not punishing electoral offenders emboldens prospective electoral robbers and they abound in great number in the PDP.