Ondo State Declares 7-day Of Mourning, As Tributes Continue To Pour In For Late Governor Agagu
Ondo State Governor, Olusegun Mimiko has announced a seven-day mourning period for his immediate predecessor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, who died last Friday, aged 65, as condolence messages and tributes continue to pour in for the deceased.
According to PunchNG
Agagu, who returned from the US on Thursday, reportedly slumped in Ikoyi, where he was having a meeting with Ondo indigenes, on Friday evening. Agagu’s former Chief Press Secretary, Yemi Olowolabi, said the former governor was not sick and had just returned from a 20-day trip abroad.
It was gathered that he ate lunch at home in Ikoyi before heading for a meeting on Lagos mainland, where he slumped. Subsequently, he was rushed to a private hospital in Yaba but he was transferred to Military Hospital, Ikoyi, where he was pronounced dead.
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, Senator Danjuma Goje, Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, TUC, Nigeria Medical Association, NMA and Bode Olajumoke, were among those that sent in their condolences, yesterday. Tambuwal, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Malam Imam Imam, said the deceased was a nationalist who championed unity and tolerance among the people.
Governor Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, described his death as a painful loss to the country, Ondo State, which he served for years and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Akpabio, who is also the chairman of the PDP Governors’ Forum, in a statement by his Special Assistant Media, Mr. Jackson Udom said “Agagu was a revered leader whose wealth of experience would have been effective in reclaiming the South-west states for the PDP. ”I am shocked by this death. It is a great loss to the country because he was a leader with a vast experience, having served as a Minister of Aviation and later governor.
Source: Vanguard NGR