Elections
Delta 2027: Plot To Stop Omo-Agege
By Basil Okoh
There’s been an annoying but unceasing attempt to force a leadership change in the Delta chapter of the APC without having to go through the process of election.
The “leadership council” being forced on the party by a group of Abuja based Delta APC politicians and their few local collaborators is the latest attempt in the conspiracy to force a change in party leadership. It is more of a gambit to seize power from the elected executives of the APC than a proposition to achieve inclusivity in the management of the party in the state, as they have been advocating.
So if the proposal for the leadership council succeeds, APC will have leaders who are not elected, who are agents of PDP and who will be directed and teleguided by PDP. Opposition will become so nuanced in Delta state that they become ineffective and elections will become straight runs to perdition, predictable, as one political entity will be the power behind both parties. We believe that the APC national secretariat saw through the Trojan horse presented by the “leadership council” advocates in APC. It is an attempt to hijack or steal the leadership of the Delta state chapter of the APC and control it from Government House, Asaba.
Thus the contestations within the APC in Delta State are shrouded in so many layers of intrigue, each layer having it’s roots in the PDP and eventually benefitting the PDP. All the conceits are focused on the governorship election coming in 2027 and on how to remove viable governorship and house candidates from contesting the elections under the aegis of the APC.
The plots emanating from the PDP provide the basis for understanding the crisis in Delta APC. The leadership council proposal was specifically designed to remove Ovie Omo-Agege from control of APC party machinery and put PDP men to rule the APC. The earlier plan for Governor Sheriff to defect to APC was part of this Trojan horse.
Members of the elite of APC are almost all defectors from the PDP and many still maintain ties to the PDP. This hostile penetration mischief should have been known by the APC. Many of the defectors are Trojans. It is naïve to have believed that these mass of defectors had no infiltrators among them or that they all had the sincerity of interest in the APC. Again many non infiltrating members of the APC are playing hunger games and trying to eat with a hand each in the gravy trays of both political parties.
The intricate web and depth of intrigues are under girding and confounding many of the public shows we see around the two sides in the conflict. Many APC members in Delta are wedded to PDP, cannot obtain a divorce and so are trapped halfway, unable to get a full definition either way.
Though many are rushing in to win party elections in APC, their umbilical cords and loyalties remain in PDP. APC will have to resort to intelligence to identify and weed these men out of the management of their party.
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