Former Senate Deputy President and the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Delta State’s 2023 elections, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has dismissed rumors suggesting he plans to leave the APC. Through a statement issued on Tuesday by his media adviser, Sunny Areh, Omo-Agege labeled the reports as unfounded and lacking credibility.
The speculations stemmed from claims that Omo-Agege was allegedly planning to align with former Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir el-Rufai to establish a new political party. In response, Omo-Agege expressed disbelief at the allegations, describing them as “shocking” and baseless.
He said, “In the weird publication, it was alleged that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy President of the Senate in the 9th Session, is scheming to abandon the All Progressives Congress (APC) to team up with Mallam Nasir el-Rufai to float a phantom new political party. The story is not only shocking but idiotic.
“Having led the APC to its best ever performance in the 2023 general elections in Delta State where the party won two of the three senatorial seats and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was narrowly cheated from coasting to victory in the Governorship election, associating his name with the political group the former Kaduna State governor is said to be working on is a clear case of fable without any basis whatsoever.
“The story is the product of a hatchet job orchestrated by political forces whose only path to relevance is to create a wedge between Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
“It is a game the perpetrators are ready and already deploying blackmail and other subterfuge to sabotage the APC.
“Let it be known that as the leader of APC in Delta State and having taken it through a record showing in the 2023 general elections, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege remains irrevocably committed, steadfast, and primed to the task of completing the job of rescuing the state from the serial failed administrations in 2027.
“Together with other progressive forces, he will steer the state to true prosperity and take her away from the trajectory of missed opportunities, failed policies and incorporated corruption to the path of development as a frontline oil-producing state in the Niger Delta.”
