The leader of the mainstream APC in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has reacted to the recent interview by Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, describing him as a drowning man grabbing at straws to hang onto to save his political life.
O’tega Emerhor stated that Omo-Agege was the real cancer that invaded and ravaged the body politics of Delta APC and predicted that now that he had accomplished his task of destabilising the party and making it fail in the 2019 general elections, he (Omo-Agege) would soon head back to the PDP; “his natural home”.
In a statement released by Mr. Aghogho Orotomah, aide to Emerhor on Media and Social Communication, Emerhor said Delta APC had known no peace since Omo-Agege was welcomed by Emerhor to the party in 2017.
“Omo-Agege who used the Labour Party (LP) to fight President Buhari and APC in the 2015 general elections was magnanimously admitted into APC in 2017. Omo-Agege upon joining APC kept his group of LP joiners intact and later transformed it into the Ogboru/Agege faction of today’s Delta APC,” he said.
“Omo-Agege’s plan from day one was to ride on the back of Chief Great Ogboru to return to the senate. He set about this by promising Chief Ogboru making him Delta State governor in 2019. Against the run of play of equity and political reality, Omo-Agege sold this dummy to Chief Ogboru that power rotation and zoning in Delta State do not matter, that the Delta North do not deserve to complete their eight years, that it does not matter, that without the input and cooperation of Delta North or South, only the Urhobo of Delta Central can make Ogboru Governor of Delta State,” he alleged.