Delta APC Crisis: Omo-Agege, Ogboru Shunned Kachikwu Peace Parley Meeting

Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege’s faction of All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta state has reportedly shunned a reconciliatory meeting convened by Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu to harmonise the factions ahead 2019 general elections.

Report says Kachikwu had told the national chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole that he will attempt to resolve the lingering crisis bedeviling the party in the state.

But Kachikwu first meeting gear toward reconciling the factions failed as Omo-Agege reportedly stay away, Daily Sun had reported.

However the Olorogun O’tega Emerhor factions of the party was said to have welcomed the moves for reconciliation and had attended the peace parley meeting.

The newspaper report says the reconciliatory meeting Kachikwu convened in his Abuja residence for selected leaders of both factions was reportedly shunned by Omo-Agege and a governorship aspirant of his faction, Chief Great Ogboru.

A sources at the meeting, according to the newspaper said Emerhor led some notable bigwigs of his faction to the meeting but they were shocked that no representative of the other faction emerged at the meeting scheduled to commence by 9.00p.m.

Although the reason for their absence was not known, a source said the actors in the faction are not willing to enter into any form of peace accord until the outcome of its consent judgment is implemented by the national leadership of the party.

A former Military Administrator and APC leader in the state, AWM Frank Ajobena an APC leader in Delta state who attended the meeting confirmed the absence of leaders from the Omo-Agege group, adding that the meeting will be called again until the party is able to harmonize the warring factions.

According to him, “What you heard is true, Ogboru and Omo-Agege didn’t show up, but we will meet again until the crisis is resolved.”

Recalled that Kachikwu said after he paid a courtesy call on Oshiomhole and promised to intervene in the crisis, adding that he is not vying for the governorship of Delta state, but that his preoccupation is to ensure that the party unites in the state, ahead of 2019 election.

“I have said that many times, I don’t know why people think I am going to talk about this thing. I don’t want to be governor, I am not running for governorship, I want to make sure the party unifies and selects a candidate we can work with. That’s my position on that.

He added that the issue is not about taking party structure, but wining election “because if you take the structure, people do not support you, and then you are going to lose. Our business is to deliver the President and deliver the governorship. We are going to do it in a way that it will be contentious and in all inclusive.”