Ex - Ondo Gov Agagu is dead

Former Governor of Ondo State , Dr .
Olusegun Kokumo Agagu , is dead . Agagu
was governor between 2003 and 2009 .
He passed on in Lagos after he slumped
while attending a meeting, which was
believed to be political .
His death was confirmed to The Nation
last night by his younger brother, Femi
Agagu , who also doubled as Chief of
Staff to Dr. Agagu as governor.
Details of how he died were , however ,
still sketchy last night , as the younger
Agagu simply said: “Oga is gone” , when
our correspondent called him last night .
A source close to the family , told The
Nation , last night that he had arrived
from the US two days ago.
Dr . Agagu was born on 16 February
1948 . He was Governor of Ondo State
from 29 May 2003 until February 18 ,
2009 , when a court voided his re-
election as governor.
He had his secondary education at
Ibadan Grammar School between
January 1961 and 1967 , where he
passed his West African School
Certificate and the Higher School
Certificate examinations . He proceeded
to the University of Ibadan in 1968 to
study Botany, but later changed to
Geology , in which he graduated with a
B . Sc. ( Hons ) degree in Second Class
Upper Division , in 1971 .
Agagu went to the University of Texas
between 1973 and 1974 for his Masters
degree in Geology . Returning to Nigeria ,
he obtained a Ph. D degree in Petroleum
Geology from the University of Ibadan
in 1978 .
Agagu was appointed by President
Olusegun Obasanjo as his first Minister
of Aviation in 1999 and later Minister of
Power .
Sources said before his death , there
were moves to bring him into the
integration drive of the South -West
region .
He was a member of the ruling People ’s
Democratic Party (PDP) .