May 17th, 2007
Mimiko seeks to personally serve Agagu with petition
Mimiko seeks to personally serve Agagu with petition. By Dayo Johnson. The Vanguard
- Agagu resorts to delay tactics
AKURE — THE Labour Party’s governorship candidate in the April 14 election in Ondo State, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko yesterday filed a Motion Exparte to personally serve the incumbent governor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu with the petition filed before election tribunal challenging Agagu’s victory at the polls.
Dr. Mimiko had dragged Dr. Agagu to the tribunal asking that the victory given to him should be voided and that he should be declared winner of the April 14 election.
In the motion exparte filed by his counsel\, Mr. Tunde Atere before the Election Petition Tribunal, he prayed the Tribunal to grant “an order of substituted service permitting and directing by your Petitioner or any appropriate officer of the Tribunal to serve the petition on the 1st Respondent (Agagu) through his personal secretary and/or any of the officers at the Governor’s office, Alagbaka, Akure, Ondo State through any of the reputable courier delivery services to enable the petitioner bring the petition to the notice of the 1st Respondent.”
In the alternative, Mimiko is praying the tribunal for: “an order of substituted service permitting and directing your Petitioner to publish the notice of receipt of Petition in one of the Nigerian newspapers.
In an affidavit in support of the motion exparte, Mimiko averred that Agagu was supposed to be served personally according to law.
He added that effort to serve the governor proved abortive as his Personal Assistant Pastor Ola Amuda undertook to receive the petition on behalf of the respondent which according to him is contrary to the electoral law.
The motion became necessary following difficulties by the bailiffs to serve the governor with the petition filed by the Labour Party’s governorship candidate.
One Response to “Mimiko seeks to personally serve Agagu with petition”
Agagu should stand up like a man (if he is one) and face the music squarely. If he has nothing to hide, he should be more than happy to wupport this matter and let the whole truth out so that he is vindicated (if he truly won the election). But we all know the truth and Agagu knows the truth. Agagu could be fooling himself believing that if he becomes elusive and is not served the petition he would be sworn in as governor on the 29th and then enjoy their favourite “governorship immunity”? When will this man learn. He embezzled, faced with indictment he thought as soon as he is cheated in as winner of the election no one could touch him. He shouldnt have been allowed to compete in the first instance. He is still faced with indictment and in Jesus name he will be jailed for the billions he stole in his Nigeria Airways days. Not only that, he would be disrobed for stealing MIMIKO’s mandate and MIMIKO WILL BE DECLARED TRULY ELECTED GOVERNOR OF ONDO STATE. Agagu is a failure, an incompetent leader, a fraudster and he already has the blood of many innocent people on his hands. MIMIKO JAREEEEEEE IROKO NI BABA IGI, YOU ARE A TRUE SON OF ONDO STATE, FIGHT FOR OUR MANDATE, HAUNT AGAGU DOWN, HE CANNOT ESCAPE FROM YOU FROM GOD AND FROM JUSTICE. This is becoming more and more interesting as well as encouraging. RAIN PSALM 37 ON THE HEAD OF AGAGU DAILY UNTIL THE COURT VICTORY IS ANNOUNCED AND EVEN AFTER. The only thing we believe in is the POWER OF THE LIVING GOD and not these powerless powers that workers of iniquity depend on. GBASIBEEEEEE