Alleged US Conviction: I’ll Not Be Distracted By Defeated Politicians, Mischief Makers – Omo-Agege

The Deputy President of senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Ageg, says he would not be detracted by the antics of disgruntled and defeated politicians hiding behind a so-called ‘youth group’ to smear his hard earned reputation.

Omo-Agege spoke in reaction to a press conference in Abuja on Monday by a group which styled itself as “Coalition of Civil Society and Youth Groups” which is calling for his resignation for purportedly “Concealing his conviction by the State Bar Court of California) Los Angeles and Others Such in the United State of America”.

Dismissing the allegations, Omo-Agege said that at a point in his brilliant and bright legal career in California, USA, Senator Omo-Agege (then a young attorney) he was alleged to have broken the law in California but in the end, he was found not guilty.

Omo-Agege said that he fought hard for his innocence and God vindicated him against the expectations of evil men.

According to the DSP, the alleged ‘sponsored’ group was out to smear his name and stir up confusion through mere mischief that are without facts.

Omo-Agege said that for the past few days, he had been in the United States of America and Canada for personal and official reasons respectively, holding aloft the beacon of progressive ideology and an agenda for improving Nigeria’s image internationally.

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He said that while he was away, the unscrupulous band of mischief makers at home calling itself a ‘youth group’ purportedly led by one Solomon Adodo allegedly seeks to mislead gullible people with lies and propaganda.

According to him, the said Adodo whom he believed was sponsored to lead a smear campaign of calumny against his person, is calling for his immediate resignation as Deputy President of the Senate, over a spurious and malicious allegation of a conviction by a Californian court.

Omo-Agege, who spoke through Yomi Odunuga, his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, in a statement, said that he would have ordinarily, ignored “this latest effort by political jobbers to drag his name into disrepute”.

He however said that his silence over the allegation could be misinterpreted as consent and evidence of guilt, in a political setting in Nigeria, hence his spontaneous response.

While dismissing the entire allegation as not only “unfounded and illogical”, he said “it is the residue of the warped imaginations and misleading rumour peddled without conviction some years back.

The statement said, “While the distinguished Senator remains completely unperturbed by the nattering nabobs of negativity and their faceless sponsors, it remains clear that this is another feeble round of mere shadow- chasing that ultimately amounts to nothing.

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Giving a graphic details of what the so-called youth groups and mischief makers were trying to push against him, the statement said, “For the umpteenth time, we would like to reiterate the fact that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was cleared of all charges in the said case and he was never a convict in the USA as being alleged; till date, he travels freely to and within the country without any hint of harassment.

“We publish herewith details of our response to the same spurious allegation on September 25, 2018: “To this extent, by way of ‘fair commentary’ only, we will speak to the non-existent criminal conviction knowing that the matter is now in court and therefore subjudice. We will meet the blackmailer in court.

“The fact is, at a point in his brilliant and bright legal career in California, USA, Senator Omo-Agege (then a young attorney) was alleged to have broken the law in California but in the end, he was found not guilty.

“Accordingly, he was declared innocent by the honourables Lance A. Ito (who presided over the popular O.J. Simpson murder trial case) and G. Magnera of the Court of California, County of Los Angeles. Omo-Agege had to fight hard for his innocence and God vindicated him against the expectations of evil men like the most sadistic blackmailer in the world.

“Today, he remains an active member in good standing at the State of California Bar Association – an impossibility if a valid and subsisting conviction were hanging on him. These are verifiable public facts and truths.”

“We state, without any equivocation, that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is committed to his mandate and would not be distracted by the antics of disgruntled and defeated politicians hiding behind a so-called ‘youth group’ without any meaningful antecedent, seeking to stir up confusion through mere mischief and without facts.

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“Let it be put on record that while his media office has been strictly instructed not to descend into the gutter to play their piggery games of petty mischief, the Senator has nothing to hide and he would continue with his passionate desire and populist dynamism, towards making Nigeria a better nation for future generations”.