By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, and Ochuko Akuopha
Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, a former Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Niger Delta and an All Progressives Congress (APC) chief in Delta State, has accused some individuals within the Presidency of ganging-up towards the previous chief of the social gathering within the state, the gubernatorial candidate within the 2023 elections and a former Deputy Senate President (DSP), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.
Nwaoboshi, popularly often known as Oracle, advised Sunday Vanguard in an interview that the individuals he vowed to show have prevented Omo-Agege from getting something from the current authorities. He mentioned, as a brother and an older politician, he had suggested Omo-Agege to not scramble for the gubernatorial ticket of the social gathering with the incumbent Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, who’s the brand new chief of the Delta APC, as a result of it’s troublesome to win towards a sitting governor.
The social gathering chieftain disclosed that Omo-Agege mentioned his issues with him, and he (Nwaoboshi) had met with Oborevwori and urged him to deal with the problems the previous DSP raised. Excerpts:
Whenever you just lately visited Governor Sheriff Oborevwori on the Authorities Home, Asaba, you mentioned his becoming a member of the APC is a game-changer. However your buddy, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, is gunning for the 2027 ticket. How is Oborevwori a game-changer?
Omo-Agege, to the most effective of my information, will not be working for the governorship underneath the platform of APC in 2027. I’ve suggested him as a senior brother and somebody older than him within the sport of politics. I’ve advised him he can’t run if he stays within the APC and the governor stays within the APC. He can’t win the social gathering’s major, and it will likely be troublesome for him to win the election. I’ve had personal conferences with him and apprised him of my place. When Chief James Ibori was governor, he ran for a second time period; no person challenged him within the major. When Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan ran for a second time period, no aspirant challenged him, and when Senator Ifeanyi Okowa ran for a second time period, no person challenged him. I’m speaking concerning the social gathering major. It’s troublesome for him to alter the system when a sitting governor is working for a second time period. I’ve suggested him, and I don’t suppose so based mostly on my private assembly with him, our former governor, Ibori, and different leaders.
However he’s considering working towards Oborevwori for the ticket…
That he’s considering working towards the governor—anyone who’s telling you that’s not telling you the reality. Nonetheless, I’ll not know if he modified his thoughts yesterday or two days in the past. I additionally know what he is considering, and I’ve had the privilege of discussing it with the governor.
I advised him that we’d like peace. He’s the daddy of the entire state; he ought to convey all people collectively, and he has promised me that. I don’t suppose Omo-Agege, in his coronary heart, except he modified his thoughts two days in the past. I’ve not spoken to him within the final two or three weeks. Until he modified his thoughts. I don’t suppose, and I don’t need him to be blackmailed based mostly on my dialogue with him, for folks to say that he’s preventing the governor.
I don’t need that. His solely concern, which he knowledgeable me on a couple of events, is that he must be recognised and accorded due respect as a former chief of the social gathering within the state. You keep in mind when folks had been difficult him then, and I mentioned Omo-Agege is the chief of the social gathering within the state. I challenged them to a debate as a result of I’ve been round. He’s a former Deputy Senate President. I keep in mind when the previous president, the late Muhammadu Buhari, introduced Festus Keyamo (present Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Improvement).
Festus Keyamo was in his workplace, however he got here there each day. Of the 2 senators that APC had on the time, Omo-Agege contributed over 80 per cent to their being senators. He made them the social gathering’s candidates. I mentioned no, he’s the chief of the social gathering, however now, a governor has are available in, and the governor turns into the chief.
There’s a want for them to interact, and that has been my place. That’s what I inform Omo-Agege, and that’s what I knowledgeable the governor. Allow us to work collectively in peace.
Some folks within the Presidency triggered the Delta APC controversy…
The issues, or what you’d outline as a disaster within the Delta APC earlier than the governor got here in, had been attributable to some folks within the Presidency. The APC in Delta State was a united household till after the president received the election. There was no contest as to who was the chief of the social gathering. It was some individuals within the Presidency for private causes, whom I’m prepared to show.
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