Omo-Agege Speaks On Being Convicted In US – TheNigerialawyer

Nigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, on
Monday described the conviction allegation by a Delta-based youth
group as “unscrupulous band of mischief makers”, for saying that he
had been convicted in a California Court in the past.

Reacting through a statement, which was issued by his Special
Adviser on Media and Publicity Yomi Odunuga, he said political
jobbers were working hard to reopen issues that have since been
resolved in Omo-Agege’s favour.

He said the Deputy Senate President visited the United States of
America and Canada for personal and official reasons last week to
promote the nation’s political ideology, saying that his visit has
nothing to do with conviction allegation.

“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.

“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.

“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”, the statement concluded.