By Dayo Johnson, Akure

THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ondo state yesterday constituted   a 50-man steering committee to plan and implement a befitting burial programme for the late governor Olusegun Agagu.

It also pleaded with the state government to immortalise him by renaming the Ondo State University of science and Technology in Okitipupa which was his brain child after him.

The state PDP chairman Hon Ebenezer Alabi at a Press conference in Akure said that the committee   will complement that of the state government and the family of the former governor.

Alabi acknowledged and appreciated the state government for promising a state burial for the immediate past governor of our state.

The committee according him   is headed by the former Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Mayowa Akinfolarin.

Alabi said the need to set up the committee became imperative as the late Agagu personified PDP in the state.

The party also called on the state government to name after the former governor some structures and projects in the state in order to serve as  mark of honour.

The party also urged the Ondo state government to embark on the completion of   all life touching projects left by Agagu administration for the state to witness unprecedented development.

”We hereby wish to propose to Ondo state government to name the Ondo state University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH) Okitipupa after Dr. Olusegun Agagu.

“We also propose that the Fiwasaye – Ado/Owo road or the Isinkan – Ondo road in Akure be named Olusegun Agagu freeway.

The Chairman said:  “We also propose the Ore – Okitipupa highway be named Olusegun Agagu Highway in respect of the southern senatorial district while same should be replicated in the northern senatorial district.”