Omo-Agege Will Never Own Us – Keyamo, Ogboru, Ochei, Delta APC Leaders’ Council

The Festus Keyamo led tendency in the Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC has firmly rejected the recent congresses conducted in the state saying that they and the party cannot be owned by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.

In a statement following what was described as a meeting between the Delta APC Leaders’ Council and majority members of the State Working Committee, SWC the Keyamo tendency narrated what it described as a regime of arbitrariness, impositions and dictatorship supposedly carried out by the mainstream of the party led by Omo-Agege and supposedly with the backing of the Congress and Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC).

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that those listed to have backed the assertions of the Keyamo group included Chief Great Ogboru, Dr. Cairo Ojougboh, Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, Dr. Maraim Ali, Dr. Alex Ideh among other state leaders of the party.

Noting that the Delta State APC Leaders’ Council was drawn from the peace process initiated through the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun committee to find lasting solutions to issues in the party, the Keyamo Tendency, however, regretted the backstabbing of the same peace process by the national chairman, Governor Mala Buni with the collaboration of Omo-Agege.

“We state here and now that Congresses are not an end in themselves,  but an avenue  to engender cohesion, inclusiveness and growth in the Party, through the popular election of Party leaders, or the consensual production of its  functionaries.

“The avoidable reverse which the Party recently suffered at the Isoko South State Assembly Constituency by-election (where the party split to two due to the arrogance and impunity of the agent of the CECPC in our State) underscores how this latest farce imposed by the CECPC in Delta State can wrought failure on the party,” the group said.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG had reported how the party was divided into two in the Isoko South State constituency by-election that is ironically the base of state caretaker chairman, Prophet Jones Erue.

In rejecting the ward and Local Government Area congresses, the group added:

“The so-called party functionaries thrown up from that charade, are not APC officials but the handpicked agents of one.  We call on all committed and faithful party members to reject them.”

The group also rejected the Appeal Committee on the ward congresses saying:

“We also reject the so-called Appeal Committee constituted at the behest of the unpopular agent of the CECPC in the State, the agent- provocateur. This is exemplified by the Chair of the Panel, who is his personal attorney, and is also engaged as the opposing counsel in the same suit that the aggrieved persons filed in court.

“In other words, this individual is the Arbiter outside the court in respect of a complaint by aggrieved persons and then the opposite counsel in court in respect of the same complaint and the same persons! This is an unwholesome and highly unprofessional conduct and may be taken up in due course.”

“However, this is the kind of outrageous injustice foisted on the party faithfuls in Delta State. It is an attempt by one person to appropriate an entire  party in the State with the active connivance of the CECPC. It will not stand.”

In the same vein, the party also rejected the zoning of offices and the initiative by Senator Omo-Agege to address perceptions of injustice as it rejected the congresses.

“We state and affirm here that there was no acceptable congress in Delta APC. We have previously heard through the grapevine that the entire State structure would be taken by an agent of the CECPC and that we can complain to the CECPC or go to court. The reasons for such grandstanding and boastfulness are now clear for all to see.

“The CECPC may have  been misled but we believe that justice will eventually prevail and they cannot befuddle the people of Delta State. Delta State APC is not the personal  property of one person, and it will never be. Let all be reminded that the foundation and fulcrum of our Party were laid and built on integrity and progressive politics, epitomised by President Buhari

“Accordingly, we call on the CECPC to annul whatever he or the CECPC may be regarding as Ward and  LGA congresses in Delta State, and organise fresh, all-inclusive Congresses. This is the irreducible minimum for the  teeming members of our Party to work with the CECPC to take our Party forward.”

“We call on all party faithfuls to remain steadfast and patient in the face of these brazen acts of injustice, provocation and undemocratic practices as we shall work relentlessly to enthrone justice and fairness in DELTA APC.”

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