Omo-Agege Under Siege In Delta As APC Leaders Pour Ridicule After Election Loss

The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was on Monday under siege as several political enemies within and outside the All Progressives Congress, APC moved in to annihilate him after his election loss in the 2023 Delta governorship election.

GWG.ng reports that Omo-Agege who was the leader of the party in Delta State and easily became the governorship candidate for the 2023 election lost the March 18 poll to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP’s Sheriff Oborevwori.

Supporters of Omo-Agege have raged against alleged saboteurs within the APC in Delta State as having sabotaged him. Among those named were Dr Cairo Ojougboh, a former executive director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and the incumbent chairman of the board of the NDDC, Ms Lauretta Onochie.

Besides the duo, many other party chieftains who accused Omo-Agege of pocketing the structure of the party and sidelining them have also been heaving sighs of relief over his loss with the claim that he would have run them out of the party.

The Omo-Agege inspired state executive had last week inspired the expulsion of Dr Ojougboh and also, the suspension of Ms Onochie.

However, two weeks after the election, his foes were on Monday countering. The first came in a public laceration allegedly authored by Onochie in which she lacerated into the DSP accusing him of high-handedness, bigotry among others.

The widely circulated censure of the DSP which has become the talking point on many APC chat platforms alleged that Omo-Agege was the architect of his electoral misfortune.

GWG.ng reports that Dr Ojougboh had spoken in a similar vein as expressed by Onochie though it was learnt that the two were not collaborating in the attacks on Omo-Agege.

The siege to the DSP was worsened when a faction of the party led by factional chairman, Hon Isaac Ulebor suspended Omo-Agege after accusing him of anti-party activities and purportedly working against the interest of the presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in the election.

Omo-Agege was accused of collaborating with some Labour Party agents in the state to support Peter Obi in the presidential election and thereafter supporting him, Omo-Agege in the governorship election.

That assertion was given life by party stakeholder, who in a series of tweets sought to claim the alliance between the Omo-Agege camp and the Labour Party.

He said:

Besides the attacks from within, GWG.ng reports that the ruling PDP in the state has also been hitting on Omo-Agege even after the election loss.

Jackson Ekwugum, the otherwise quiet communications manager to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa in a scathing writeup at the weekend hit at Omo-Agege accusing him of throwing tantrums over the election loss asking him to look within for the defeat.

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