Ex-Convict Toga Tied To 2023 Election – Omo-Agege

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has traced the ex-convict toga alleged against him to political hustling directed at distracting him ahead of the 2023 General Election.

Receiving a delegation of top Urhobo traditional rulers, Omo-Agege the Deputy President of the Senate, however, dismissed the orchestrators as mere mortals who do not know the purpose and plans of God.

Omo-Agege, however, did not specify his 2023 aspiration. He is, however, believed to be positioning himself for the 2023 governorship contest with the prospect of becoming the first person outside the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to sweep himself into the Government House Asaba since the return of democracy in 1999.

A statement issued by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Yomi Odunuga, quoted him as vowing to sustain his propagation of Urhobo interest wherever he is found.

“I am not a politician who can be intimidated by anybody; for those enemies at home, they know me very well but I am sure that those who participated, they did so with cover from others outside of the state who really did not know me well.

“If they knew, like the local enemies that I am not easily intimidated, I am very sure they wouldn’t have gone on this fruitless voyage.

“This is not the first time we have been through this; I pray it is the last time. But to the extent they chose not to make it the last time, they also have me to contend with because I don’t suffer fools gladly.

“ For those who don’t know, they will get to know in the not too distant future.

“But having said that, I saw all of it and those behind it as mere irritants who were determined to distract me and the leadership of the National Assembly from the path of cooperation with the Executive arm (of government) to enable us deliver the dividends of democracy as promised to our constituency during the electioneering campaigns.

“I am glad and indebted to the leadership of the Senate and indeed all of my colleagues who saw through this from the very outset and called it what exactly it is: that they were just people who were mischievous, doing permutations with respect to 2023 when no one knows who will be alive tomorrow.

“In doing this, they factored in a lot of things but one thing I believe they forgot to factor in is the God factor because if you look at our trajectory, on our own, we are not supposed to be where we are.

“The only reason we are here today is because God said we have to be here; we are not here because we are the smartest, the most intelligent, most popular or most powerful. So, we believe that those who are fighting us are fighting God and that is not the kind of battle you want to be involved in because you don’t have the chance of winning that battle.

“Having been vindicated or re-vindicated or revalidated, I have decided to put all of this behind me and move forward – move forward to do the business of the people, the things that will bring joy to our people because there is a reason why they sent me here.”

The group of Urhobo leaders was led by Prof. Sam Ibodje who cautioned trouble makers to keep away from the Urhobo senator.

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