A support group, the Coalition for Delta Interest (CDI), has warned against what it called daily campaigns of calumny against immediate past Deputy Senate President Ovie Omo-Agege and leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State.
Its convener and secretary Austin Kpedi and Eric Ikomi in a statement on Tuesday respectively said: ” Our attention has been drawn to different media publications and National Television programs where some groups of cheapjack speculators headed by an expelled chieftain of the APC are finding all possible means to get political patronage from President Bola Tinubu whose electoral victory they made no effort to contribute.
These disparate elements who are rampaging the media with “Omo-Agege campaigned against Tinubu” were nowhere to be found in all APC campaigns, and meetings and thus failed to deliver their units for any APC candidates in the last elections. If these set of people were from Lagos State, they would also have accused Mr. President, His Excellency, Senator Bola Tinubu of working against himself because an opposition party defeated Mr. President in his Lagos State, a record which has not been broken for about twenty years.
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‘’While it is not necessary to duel on the rigorous grassroots campaign efforts of His Excellency, Distinguished Senator Ovie Omo-Agege alongside Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, Rt Hon. Victor Ochei, Chief Ayiri Emami, and other leaders of the Delta State APC vis-a-vis the outcome of the elections, we need to state vividly that the 2023 general election in Delta State yielded unprecedented results that made Delta APC secure two out of the three Senatorial elections, one Federal Constituency election and seven State House of Assembly elections. The Governorship and other elections which were rigged by the Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their conspirators, shall be reversed through the party’s petitions backed up with insurmountable evidence.
‘’As a group, we embarked on various pre-campaign activities including solidarity walks for His Excellency, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege on different popular roads in Asaba, the Delta State Capital. We also participated in the One Million Man March for Tinubu and Omo-Agege as Coordinated by Chief Ominimini. It is pertinent to note that, the funding of these activities came from distinguished Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and other leaders of the party whose detractors are blackmailing their efforts.
‘’Those buying the blackmail from this set of helter-skelter politicians parading themselves as Delta APC members should demand their unit results in all the elections of 2023 to prove their commitments to the progress of the Party. Ms. Onochie, the recently sacked board Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission was alleged to have shared dollars to aid opposition parties’ victory in Delta State. She joined this maligning undertaking because it has been her stock in trade in earning appointment from the presidency”.
The coalition urged the President and the National Leadership of the party to “be wary of this set of people whose mission is to reap from where they did not sow”.