Investigations by the police and the State Security Service, SSS, into the security reports presented to the 2007 Ondo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on which the Justice Garba Nabaruma-led tribunal relied upon to nullify the election of former governor of the state, Dr. Olusegun Agagu, have been confirmed forged.

The forged report paved the way for the declaration of Dr. Olusegun Mimiko of the Labour Party, LP, as the winner of the 2007 governorship election on July 25, 2008. The tribunal relied on the reports to nullify the result of election in 10 local government areas where the then incumbent Governor Agagu had won.

The Court of Appeal sitting in Benin, Edo State, on February 23, 2009 upheld the ruling of the tribu-nal on the strength of the forged reports. Agagu had won the April 14, 2007 governorship election. In the result declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Agagu secured 349,258 votes to defeat Mimiko who polled 226,021.

But after the cancellation of the election results in 10 out of the 18 local government areas of the state by the tribunal, Mimiko emerged as the governor with 198,269 votes against the earlier winner, Agagu, who the Nabaruma-led tribunal credited with 128, 669 votes Agagu had petitioned the Presidency alleging that the LP forged SSS reports in Ondo State during the 2007 election and which were presented at the election petition tribunal.

He added that despite the testimony by SSS officials that security reports were forged, the tribunal relied on the reports to nullify the result of election in 10 local governments where Agagu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate had won. Agagu had appealed to the President to investigate the matter to safeguard “our democracy which is the beacon of our sustainable development.”

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