UPDATE: How Former Governor Olusegun Agagu Died

Former governor Of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, who had 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.

"They were having a meeting with Ondo State people. Alex Akinyele was there. He slumped. It is shocking, devastating. We will all miss him. I can’t believe he will just die.”

Said former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo Alao-Akala, who described Agagu’s death as shocking.

Ondo State Governor, Dr. Olusegun Mimiko, described the death of his predecessor as shocking, adding that Ondo has lost a colossus, whose vacuum would be difficult to fill.

Mimiko said, “He would be remembered as a consummate politician and lecturer, who imparted knowledge to many people across the world.”

Reacting to the sad new, a member of PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, said: “This is tragic news. I’m shattered. He never held grudges.”

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. He was aged 65.

May his soul rest in peace!

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Former Governor Olusegun Agagu Is Dead

Former governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Agagu, is dead. He was 65. He was said to have slumped and died yesterday evening during a meeting at his residence in Lagos.

Another source said the former governor had been sick for sometime now, and had just returned to the country after a medical trip abroad. The source said further that when the traditional ruler of the ex-governor (Orofun 1 of Ijodo, Oba J.T Timola) died about three weeks ago, he could not come for the burial, but only sent condolence message from abroad, even though the late king was his family member.

When contacted last night, the Personal Assistant to the late governor, Sunday Oyepitan said: “I am so devastated. I can’t talk to you right now. He was hale and hearty. He came back from the United States last week.”

In a condolence message friday night, Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, expressed great shock and disbelief over the death of Agagu.

In a statement by the state’s Commissioner for Information, Mr Kayode Akinmade, Mimiko described the death as most unfortunate and hard to believe.

“This news, to say the least, is most shocking and very hard to believe. It is most unfortunate and indeed a great loss,” reads the brief statement.
Mimiko prayed God to give the family of the deceased the fortitude to bear the loss.
Born 16 February 1948, he was Governor of Ondo State from 29 May 2003 until February 2009, when a court voided his re-election as governor on account of electoral irregularities. He was a minister during the Obasanjo administration.

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