More Confusion Over Omo-Agege’s Fate As Sobotie Exco Responds

Confusion over the fate and to wit, the identity of the traducers of the Delta State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege deepened late on Monday after the state executive council of the party rose in stout defence of his membership and disowned the faction that expelled him from the party.

However, prominent party members have remained mum on the siege on Omo-Agege with some of the allegedly sidelined party cheifs celebrating the siege on Omo-Agege.

GWG.ng reports that Omo-Agege who is also the deputy president of the Senate was expelled from the party by a faction of the party which accused him of among other things highhandedness and anti-party activities. He was specifically accused of collaborating with the Labour Party to undermine the presidential candidate of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

The Ulebor Isaac led faction claimed that the expulsion of Omo-Agege was taken at a meeting of the Delta APC Executive Committee on March 31,  2023 at the state secretariat in Asaba.

The letter said the executives reached the decision after deliberating on “the Notice of Resolution of Expulsion of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege,” which was submitted  “by the executive committee of the Orogun ward and Ughelli North Local Government.

“Consequently,  Senator Ovie Omo-Agege hereby stands expelled as a member of the party with immediate effect for various offences committed and acts of anti-party activities and gross misconduct that has brought shame and ridicule to the image of the party in the state which affected the party in the just concluded elections,” the letter read.

GWG.ng had reported that the decision of the Ulebor Isaac led executive came after some prominent chieftains of the party including Dr Cairo Ojougboh, a former executive director at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and Ms Lauretta Onochie had separately publicly chided Omo-Agege of causing his governorship election defeat through his alleged arrogance.

However, support has come the way of Omo-Agege as the Omeni Sobotie led state executive disowned the Ulebor Isaac executive with a number of party chiefs left in confusion over their antecdents.

Sobotie in a statement jointly issued with the State Secretary,  Peter Akarogbe, disowned the Isaac executive as impostors.

“We, the legitimate and only recognized State Executive Committee of the Party, at the National Headquarters, in consultations with all other levels in the chain, hereby disclaim the publication as fraudulent, a ruse and of no consequence. Therefore it should be disregarded and ignored as the handiwork of mischief makers by all party faithfuls and the general public.

“In the light of the foregoing, the names of the Executive Committee members of the APC at the Wards, Local Governments, Senatorial Districts and the State, are in the National Secretariat of the Party and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which duly monitored the congresses as required by law.

“Consequent on the above, the signatories to the said publication are not only  dubious impostors, but very reckless in with their publication. In this regard, their claims could cause a breach of public peace and must not be permitted.

“The Nigerian Police Force, DSS and other security agencies are enjoined to take note of the wanton rascality and the unscrupulous intent to cause disharmony and a breach of public peace.

“The general public, party faithfuls and stakeholders are therefore advised to discountance the said publication, and view it as the worthless undertaking of men with crooked intentions.”

However, GWG.ng gathered that a number of party chiefs are keeping mum over the attacks on Omo-Agege with some welcoming the moves upon their claims of his alleged highandedness putting party chiefs in confusion.

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