Death sentence: Agbofodoh’s son fights back, alleges political undercurrent

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By Onozure Dania

WARRI—FIRST son of Chief Newton Agbofodoh, the embattled traditional Prime Minister (Unuewvodo) of Ekpan in Uvwie Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr. Darlington Newton, has alleged high political undercurrent in the death sentence by hanging, slammed on his father by a Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba.

Darlington Newton, in a chat with newsmen in Warri, claimed that the purported political grievance against the sacked local government chairman, “Was extended to my father who is neither a member of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, nor All Progressives Congress, APC. It is just because Baro is my father’s nephew. My dad was accused of not working for PDP in the 2015 governorship/House of Assembly elections.”

According to him, sentencing his father, Chief Agbofodoh to death over the murder of one John Mogidi on the testimony of Innocent Akemu…



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