Omo-Agege Speaks As CSOs Tag Him Ex-Convict

Ovie Omo-Agege on Sunday dismissed as rehash and untenable the call by a coalition of nine Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, that he resign his position as Deputy President of the Senate upon his alleged conviction as a lawyer in California, United States of America.

The coalition of nine-civil society organizations had accused Senator Omo-Agege of being guilty of perjury upon their claim that he was convicted by the State Bar Court of the State of California, Los Angeles in 1996.

Speaking through the convener of Coalition of Civil Society and Youth Groups in Nigeria at a news conference in Abuja, Mr. Solomon Adodo, the group accused Omo-Agege of hiding the alleged conviction from the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the Nigerian Senat.

“It should further be brought to our memories that sometime around April 18, 2018, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege who was on suspension at the time, sneaked in through one of the glass barricades within the National Assembly complex and had the legislative mace seized by thugs allegedly under his instruction. This act in itself cast odium and deep negative aspersions on the image and integrity of the 8th Assembly,” the group said.

“Our scrupulous findings reveal that the said Augustine O. Omo-Agege was admitted into the State Bar of California on December 14, 1992. The records reveal that on or about March 7, 1992, the said Augustine O. Omo-Agege was alleged to have committed the crime of forgery of Check in violation of Penal code section 470, a felony. Furthermore, on or about March 7, 1993 the said Augustine O. Omo-Agege was alleged to have committed the crime of perjury-application for Driver’s license in the County of Los Angeles in violation of Penal code section 118, a felony.

Omo-Agege was quick to dismiss the assertions as unfounded and rehash of past dismissed insinuations.

Speaking through his media adviser, Yomi Odunuga, Omo-Agege said:

“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.”

“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.”

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