Olusegun Agagu Slumps And Dies At 65

The former Governor of Ondo State, Dr Olusegun Agagu, is
dead. He was aged 65.
Agagu, who 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.
Olowolabi, who worked with him for more than four years,
described his former boss as “a great man, a first-class
intellectual and an astute administrator.”
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.”
Former Governor of Ogun State, Segun Osoba, told
Saturday PUNCH on telephone that Agagu was very
respectful.
He said, “I got to know him when he was deputy to former
governor of old Ondo State, Bamidele Olomilua. He carried
himself with dignity. He was loyal to Olomilua during the
days of the Social Democratic Party. Agagu should rest in
peace.”
In his reaction, former governor of Oyo State, Adebayo
Alao-Akala, described Agagu’s death as shocking.
He said, “It is sad. He came back from abroad yesterday
with his wife. 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.”
Agagu’s schoolmate at the University of Ibadan, Senator
Olu Alabi, who is a former Governing Board Chairman,
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, said, “We were
together in UI. We co-funded United Nigerian Congress
Party and the Peoples Democratic Party. I don’t know
what to tell his wife, Funke.”
Member, PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Ebenezer
Babatope, said: “This is tragic news. I’m shattered. He
never held grudges.”
Director of Publicity, Ondo PDP, Mr Ayodele Fadaka, who
broke down in tears over the phone, described the death
of the late geologist as great loss to Ondo and Nigeria.
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.
His corpse was still at the military hospital as at the time of
filing this report.