2023: Omo-Agege’s Verbal Attacks Last Kick Of Dying Horse, He Can’t Stop Okowa’s VP’s Ambition – Delta PDP

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Delta State, came under fire on Wednesday from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for remarks he made that implied Governor Ifeanyi Okowa’s vice presidential aspirations would be terminated.

Omo-Agege lacks the authority to block Okowa’s vice presidential bid, according to a statement from the PDP Campaign Council in Delta’s Chairman of the Media and Publicity Committee, Chief Emman Amgbaduba.

Amgbaduba, the state’s commissioner for oil and gas, claimed that Omo-Agege’s verbal attacks on Okowa were the last gasp of a dying horse and that the PDP would retire him from politics in 2023.

He referred to the DSP’s hints of Governor Okowa’s desire for a third term as numb and described them as malicious propagation on the part of the APC governorship candidate.

“We have watched Omo-Agege boasting about terminating Okowa’s Vice-Presidential ambition and also accusing him of having a third term agenda.

“First, Okowa has no such agenda as the PDP has a well respected governorship candidate in the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Chief Sheriff Oborevwori.

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“Instead of Omo-Agege telling Deltans about his agenda for the development of the state, he goes about boasting about how he will terminate Okowa’s ambition to become vice-president.

“The last time I checked, Okowa isn’t on the ballot with him for the Delta governor’s race, and let me make it clear to him that PDP with the support of the people, will teach him a political lesson in 2023

“We will help him retire to his Orogun village, where he channelled the little projects and institutions he managed to attract to his senatorial district,” Amgbaduba said.

He said Omo-Agege who supported Senate President, Ahmed Lawan for president, cannot do a volte-face to accuse Okowa of betraying Southern Nigeria.

“Okowa didn’t betray anybody, the party threw its ticket open and a Northerner in Atiku Abubakar won the ticket, and constitutionally, a Vice Presidential candidate must emerge from the South, and Okowa was found worthy after careful evaluation by the candidate and the party.

“Rather than rejoice with Okowa and put political sentiments aside to ensure that a Deltan emerges as Vice-President in 2023, he is busy lying to Deltans about an alleged betrayal that never existed,” he stated.

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He urged party supporters and Deltans to reject Omo-Agege’s falsehoods and aid the PDP in pulling the nation out of the deep valley the APC had plunged it into.