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Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo- Agege, All Progressives Congress, APC, Delta Central yesterday said that he was tried by the State Bar Court of the State of California, Los Angeles, USA in case No. 94-C-14401 in the United States of America, USA, but was never found guilty at the end of the day.
Omo- Agege who noted that since he was tried and cleared in the matter, he has been travelling to and fro the United States for both private Nd official engagements.
The Deputy President of the Senate was responding to a call for his immediate resignation as a Senator and for the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to declare his seat vacant by a group under the aegis, ” Guardians of Democracy and Development, Partners for Legislative Agenda for Nigeria (PLAN), Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative and our partners under the Coalition of Civil Society and Youth Groups in Nigeria.”
According to the group, in the event that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege hesitates in resigning from Office, impeachment proceedings should be immediately initiated against him in order to redeem what it described as the battered image of the Nigerian Senate following the group’s allegation that the Deputy President of the Senate willfully concealed the fact of the said conviction from INEC and the Nigerian Senate thereby contravening the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution and the Rules of the Senate.
The group is also calling on the law enforcement Agency to immediately initiate fresh prosecution against Senator Omo-Agege for the alleged offence of perjury and denigration of the Nigerian Constitution, warning that if no serious action was taken in the next 72 hours, it shall mobilize thousands of Civil Society and Youth Groups to occupy the National Assembly.
But Omo Agege who took a swipe at those calling for his resignation said that the story remains another feeble round of mere shadow- chasing that that will amount to nothing, even as he assured that he was committed to his mandate and will not be distracted by what he termed, the antics of disgruntled and defeated politicians.
In a statement yesterday in Abuja, the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to Senator Omo- Agege, Yomi Odunuga said, “Over the past few days, Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege visited 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.
“On the contrary, an unscrupulous band of mischief-makers at home calling itself a ‘youth group’ purportedly led by one Solomon Adodo is seeking to mislead gullible people with lies and propaganda by calling for the immediate resignation of the Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, over a spurious and malicious allegation of a conviction by a Californian court.
“Ordinarily, we would have ignored this latest effort by political jobbers to drag the name of the Distinguished Senator into disrepute.
“However, in a political environment like ours where silence could be misinterpreted as consent and evidence of guilt, we make haste to dismiss the entire allegation as not only unfounded and illogical; it is the residue of the warped imaginations and misleading rumour peddled without conviction some years back.
“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.
