Delta APC: Omo-Agege, Keyamo, Reunite Against Okowa As Real Urhobo Man Vies For Gov

Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and his erstwhile political rival for the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Delta State, Olorogun Festus Keyamo have publicly buried the hatchet and pledged to reunite forces to kick out the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP from its 23 year hold on the state.

Their pledge came as APC state leader, Chief Frank Kokori expressed his satisfaction that a real Urhobo man in the person of Omo-Agege was vying for the governorship of Delta State.

The expression of unity came through in a statement issued in Abuja, by Mr Ima Niboro, Director, Communications and Media Strategy, Delta APC Gubernatorial Campaign Organisation.

GWG reports that the pledge of unity came in the wake of the crisis that trailed the congresses in the state that saw the Omo-Agege tendency sweep the positions.

Keyamo had in a riposte vowed not to accept the congresses saying that those who took the positions were Omo-Agege’s houseboys and house girls. The Omo-Agege tendency at that time accused him of mischief noting that he and his allies at that time including Chief Great Ogboru among others stayed away from the congresses only to criticize the result.

However, all that appeared to have been put away on Sunday as Omo-Agege and Keyamo pledged to reunite against the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa led PDP at a meeting of Delta Central APC Leaders and Stakeholders in Effurun, Delta.

Omo-Agege, who doubles as the governorship candidate of APC in the state, stressed the need for unity for the party to clinch power in 2023.

He lamented that the state had been under bondage of underdevelopment since 1999, declaring that 2023 was a year of liberation.

Omo-Agege said he was motivated by a desire to arrest receding hope among Deltans and build a state where the people’s future would be brighter than their past.

He said that fairness demanded that power returned to the South in 2023 since President Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner, was about completing eight years in office.

“We need to be united to be able to confront the PDP. These are people who keep repeating the same thing and expect a different outcome.

“We are going to change the narrative in Delta. We are going to stand by Bola Tinubu for President. Selling him won’t be a difficult task. We saw what he did in Lagos,” he said.

Also, convener of the meeting and Spokesperson, APC Presidential Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo SAN, speaking in the same vein as Omo-Agege after the pledge to reunite, accused the PDP government of running “a clueless and shortsighted administration”.

Keyamo said that the agenda of the PDP government in the state was to impoverish the people and make life difficult for them.

He said that: “the jacket of disunity is already in PDP. We will rescue the people from hunger and bondage”.

On his part, elder statesman  Frank Kokori expressed delight that the state was having a ‘real Urhobo man’ vying for the position of the governor in 2023

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