Tag: Ovie Omo-Agege

2023: I will turn Osubi airstrip to international hub – Omo-Agege vows

Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate in Delta, says the Osubi Airstrip will be turned to an International hub, if elected as the state Governor in 2023.

Omo-Agege made this known during the party’s campaign visit to Ward 10, Ward 11 and Ward 12 in Warri South Local Government area of the state.

“As the Governor, I will expand the Osubi Airstrip and make it an international hub by giving it another runway.

“As a senator in the eighth Senate, I voted N10 billion to put a runway at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. So, as a Governor, I will do the same here,” he said.

The candidate decried the dearth of industries in Warri, promising to invest in security architecture to attract those companies that had left back to the metropolis.

Omo-Agege, representing Delta Central Senatorial District, also promised to channel the ingenuity of youths into productive ventures, and as well, reactivate the Warri Township Stadium to encourage sporting activities.

While promising prompt payment of bursary to indigent students in various tertiary institutions in the country, he said that his administration would also give scholarship to deserving students.

He, therefore, urged Delta people to vote for the APC Presidential candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu, saying that the former Lagos State Governor would also replicate what he did in Lagos in Delta.

“Tinubu will dredge the Escravos Bar and sink the pipelines to enable bigger vessels to sail into our ports.

“He will reactivate and make the Warri, Koko and Burutu ports functional and by implications create more jobs for our youths.

“Vote for APC candidates at all levels, this is the agenda to dredge the Warri ports and make the ports work,” he said.

Omo-Agege then implored the party supporters to embark on door to door campaign
to educate the electorate on the need for a change in the state.

“You are all APC canvassers, so I implored you to go from house to house, explaining to people the imperative of voting for APC. Do not give opportunity for the PDP to come back,” he said.

On the adoption of BVAS for the 2023 elections, the governorship candidate warned those who indulged in intimidating voters at the polling units to desist or risk going to jail.

“Tell the people to come out and vote. There is adequate security for them,” he said.

Also, Omo-Agege’s Deputy, Mr Friday Osanebi, urged the people to vote for the party to attract development to Warri.

Earlier, the state Chairman of the party, Mr Omini Sobotie, urged the people to get their Permanent Voter Card and vote out PDP in the 2023 general elections.

Also, Mr Benson Obire, the APC candidates, representing Warri South Constituency II in Delta House of Assembly, expressed optimism that his constituents would vote for the party in the forthcoming general elections.

December 17, 2022
No to BAND, no to EDGE, no to Omo-Agege – By Okorote Utieyon

By Okorote B Utieyon

Patriotism is fast becoming a scarce commodity among Nigerian politicians, many of who pursue power inordinately for selfish and raw egoistic reasons. Some Nigerian politicians do not understand the essence of politics except to grab power, steal it and deploy it to satisfy their flatulent ego that shouldn’t amount to the least measurement of worth in sane climes.

Sadly, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has provided a home for such elements that see everything through the prism of gangsterism. A political party that rewards mace theft with a high office and crowns it with a national honour is certainly in huge deficit of altruism. The same political party that is now selling a comatose presidential candidate to Nigerians to replace the one that now lives and rules in the past of fifty years ago.

The party has gifted Nigeria and Nigerians the worst socio-economic reality ever in the history of the country. The APC has clearly shown that it is a party of doom that meant no good for Nigerians. Under the APC, Nigeria sinks into the abyss of hopelessness as one of the most corrupt nations on earth, the third most unsafe country in the world and the poverty capital of the world with about 150 million of her 200 million people condemned to penury.

It is from this sardonic political party that the true to type Senator Ovie Omo-Agege rears his head as governorship candidate in Delta State. Never known for altruism, except to steal power for the sake of it, Omo-Agege goes against the grain of altruism and morality when it comes to political engagements. The mace saga remains fresh in the minds of Nigeria. Nigerians still remember how he knelt down before President Buhari with a slavish smile in appreciation for being second fiddle in the Senate leadership.

That act of him kneeling down wearing the full regalia of a chief was considered a reprehensible act amounting to a taboo among his Urhobo people. Only a slave of that age kneels before another man who is not his father, but our man did it because of power. This same character with his ludicrous mindset is now out spewing forth balderdash and shameless lies that he wants to become the governor of Delta State. The good people of Delta State are already cringing at the thought of having such a man without character on the saddle. Although, he is crying and throwing tantrums all over the place and offering Deltans lies and lies, the people have long concluded that his would be an exercise in futility.

What has given credence to the crass destructive nature of Omo-Agege are the acronyms he coined to market his campaign strategy. He calls one BAND and the other is EDGE. The Holy Book did say that out of the abundance of the mouth the heart speaks. So it is for Omo-Agege whose destructive instinct conjured BAND as in a BAND of thieves as his campaign message. Push it further and what Omo-Agege is offering Deltans are BANDits. The other destructive essence is in Omo-Agege’s acronym for his manifesto which he calls EDGE. He is truly bent on driving Delta State to the edge of disaster. But Deltans in one accord have repudiated such dastardly thoughts and gestures.

Evaluating what constitutes Omo-Agege’s BAND and EDGE philosophies reveal the workings of a shallow mind that is unable to conceptualize the essence of government. Despite his boastful ranting and chest beating characteristic of a lazy pugilist, Omo-Agege has not been able to give a clear cut perspective to his development blueprint for Delta State other than venting his frustrating anger and cursing.

He describes his BAND to mean building a new Delta. Certainly what he has in mind is ruining the new Delta especially with the kind of legacy of ruins that the APC represents nationwide. His other invention is EDGE which he describes as employment or empowerment, development, good governance and enduring peace and security. These items read like what were picked out of the pages in a Social Studies textbook and which a ten year old will easily reel out off-hand in an interview or an examination. These are basic ideas that a serious candidate will handle with depth and deftness. He even mentioned the highly abused and misused word “empowerment”.

Does Omo-Agege who forcefully broke into government file cabinets as Secretary to State Government (SSG) even on a Sunday know anything about good governance? Or has he forgotten how he hijacked contracts, seized the funds and erased evidence of awards? Can he explain the transformation from a pauper fleeing American justice system to his being billionaire within a year of being in government?

Omo-Agege and his handlers are certainly not in tune with the order of things in the contemporary world. They need to put on their thinking cap and interrogate the socio-economic aspirations of Deltans from a glocal perspective which while taking our local peculiarities into consideration, do not lose sight of global trends in development.

Omo-Agege dropped those words which he says make up his agenda for Delta State, but he failed to offer strategies for their realization. Putting together a manifesto for the modern state is not synonymous with stealing a mace. Explaining campaign message is not the same as cringing and kneeling down for a Fulani man.

That Omo-Agege has chosen BAND as his mantra only shows his commitment to offering Delta State to BANDits who will drive the State to the EDGE. But Deltans are saying no to BANDits, no to EDGE, no to Omo-Agege. The APC and the likes of Omo-Agege should never be allowed near public office again.

A man who as Senator representing 24 clans took all five major projects he proposed to his small community of less than forty houses is not just acutely nepotistic, but unfit for public office. This is the verdict of Deltans. Even APC leaders have deserted him as they have known that nothing good can be associated with BANDits who want to drive us to the EDGE.

Okorote B Utieyon writes from Warri

December 12, 2022
TRENDING! Omene takes Omo-Agege to the cleaners, alleges he is a serial betrayer (Video)

A video clip has surfaced online showing a top notch Urhobo Chief, Joe Omene slamming All Progressives Congress APC guber candidate, Ovie Omo-Agege as a serial betrayer.

Omene in the 6.57mins clip trending in the social media networks did not spare the DSP describing him as a politician who has stepped on the toes of those who allegedly helped him to rise politically in Delta State.

In the clip he said, former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori and Chief Great Ogboru who helped him to climb up the ladder were all betrayed.

Watch:

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Media/News Company (@thenewsgurung)

December 6, 2022
Delta traditional ruler extols Omo-Agege’s leadership qualities

The Dein of Agbor kingdom, Dein Keagborekuzi 1, says Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege, governorship candidate of the APC in Delta, will make a great governor if given the opportunity to serve.

The traditional ruler said this on Friday in Agbor, when Omo-Agege and members of his campaign train visited the Dein in his palace.

Responding to a speech by Omo-Agege, also deputy senate president, on the reasons for the visit, the traditional leader described him as a shining light in political leadership.

“You are a shining light in Delta State and you have been able to shine in Abuja. Gov. Okowa and the Speaker, Sheriff Oborevwori are your friends.

“What we want is the best for the state and the nation, and am sure and know that you will do an amazing job as governor of Delta State.,” he said.

Earlier, Sen. Omo-Agege had told the traditional ruler that a lot had gone wrong in state and that he was leading a revolution to change the narrative.

He promised to bring about a lot changes in the state if elected ,including the proper upgrade of University of Delta .

Speaking, the state chairman of the APC, Chief Omeni Sobotie, said the people of Ika had been marginalised by the present administration.

He, however, assured that the problem would be a thing of the past with the election of Omo-Agege as governor.

On his part, the chairman of APC in Ika South, Mr Hillary Igbude, said that Ika people had not benefitted much under the present PDP-led administration.

“Eight years of the present administration is eight years of sufferings for Ika people. We have been treated as a conquered people,” he said

Igbude however, said he was sure the people of Agbor kingdom would vote APC in the next governorship election in order to better the lots of Ika people.

December 2, 2022
2023: I will revamp moribund industries in Delta – Omo-Agege promises

….says his govt’ll be fair, just to Ika nation

The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has promised that if elected as the next governor, his administration would revamp and fix moribund industries littered across the State.

He stated that the plan is part of his economic blueprint to boost business activities in the State.

Omo-Agege, who is the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, also assured the people of Ika Nation that an APC-led government in the State would be fair and just to Ika nation and other parts of Delta.

The Delta Central lawmaker stated this on Thursday at Ward 2, Boji-Boji Owa in Ika North East Local Government Area of the state when the APC wars-t -ward campaign train visited the area.

Ika North East ward 2 is the ward of the incumbent governor and Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa.

Omo-Agege, who also spoke in other Wards visited in the Council, promised that his administration would never abandon any part of Owa Kingdom, nor any part of Ika North East if elected as Governor in 2023.

He lamented that despite the promises made by governor Okowa in 2015 to revamp the State economy of the State, seven years after, Deltans are yet to see fulfilment of such promises.

According to him, his administration would return Ikaland to it’s pride of place in the economy of the State. That Ikaland was commerce in nature which he would return it to.

He however clarified that though, he condemned activities of internet fraudster, that when elected, he would create a tech hub that would harness their potential to positivity by channeling their ingenuity to apps developing thereby creating employments for our youths.

“I want to begin today by making some clarifications. Clarification number one, I want to assure our brothers, our sisters in Ward 2 Owa-Alero and the entire Ika North East that contrary to what you have been told. Contrary to the rumour they are spreading about, my administration will be fair, just and equitable to the people of Owa and Ikaland.

“If you have received any benefit, if any at all, we are happy for you. What you have we will protect for you. Nobody will tell the incoming administration of Ovie Omo-Agege and Friday Osanebi that any project being executed in Ika North East should be abandoned.

“I am saying that if there’s any project they will not be abandoned. Government is continual. Any project commenced by any administration is behoves on us to complete it. No such project in Owa kingdom and Ika nation will be abandoned.

“So, I am assuring our brothers and sisters, fear not, we will be fair, just and equitable to all Deltans. Whatever that is due to the people of Ika North East they will get from my administration.

“Don’t let anybody deceive you. Don’t let anybody sow seed of hatred in your heart against our Party. Because our people in this current government are the biggest purveyor of hatred. All we want to do is to ensure that the prosperity is for all Deltans and not for only one family”, Omo-Agege stated.

Omo-Agege strongly appealed to the people of Ika North East to overwhelmingly vote for all candidates of the APC in 2023, adding that every vote in the next year’s election would count.

Mainwhile, the Chairman of APC in Ika North East, Comrade Ekene Kerri, has said the Party is fully on ground in the council and Ikaland and would defeat the PDP in the forthcoming election.

Kerri noted that it was the turn of the South to produce the next president of Nigeria, adding that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Omo-Agege are best the candidates.

“We supported and voted Gov Okowa thinking as our brother he will represent our interest but the person we thought was our brother is our biggest betrayal. He betrayed the entire Southern Nigeria.

“Tinubu is a reliable politician and we have resolved to support him. APC is fully in Ikaland and we are going to vote for all candidates of APC. In 2023 we will reject Okowa and PDP”. Kerri stated.

Kerri, while applauding Omo-Agege, said despite being a Delta Central lawmaker, the APC governorship candidate appointed sons and daughters of Anioma as political aides.

December 2, 2022
OPINION: Omo-Agege did not betray anybody

By Francis Ewherido

The 17 governors of the Southern States of Nigeria met in Asaba, Delta State, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, to discuss issues of common interest to the South, in particular, and the Nigeria, in general. They came up with a 12-point communique where they raised key issues about the future of Nigeria. Later the governors of the South met again in Lagos and clamoured for shift of the presidency to the South after President Muhammadu Buhari’s two terms. This is in line with the gentleman’s agreement of power rotation between the South and the North. These governors from across party lines were expected to influence their parties to bring the gentleman agreement and their resolution to fruition. The Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, was at both meetings and in fact hosted the meeting in Asaba. Their photograph graced the front pages of many newspapers the day after the meeting. It was then a shock to many Nigerians, especially Southerners, when he emerged the vice presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party. This act was what prompted the Deputy President of the Senate, HE Ovie Omo-Agege, to call him “Judas Iscariot” of the South. Constitutionally, Okowa has the freedom of choice to take his action, but it carries a huge moral burden.

Apparently what Omo-Agege said hurt the Okowa camp and they came fighting back. That is expected, but the watery reasons they used to call Omo-Agege a betrayer are responsible for this article. They said Omo-Agege is a serial betrayer. He betrayed Chief James Ibori. How? I never heard that before. He who alleges must prove his case. We are waiting. They also said he betrayed Chief Great Ogboru. For personal reasons, I made up my mind some time ago not discuss issues involving Ogboru, but since these PDP media people have thrown sh*t on the ceiling fan in a matter not concerning Ogboru and he has not issued a rebuttal, some of the sh*t will invariably fall on him. When Ogboru came back from exile, I was told within government circle that Ibori offered him the Delta Central Senatorial District ticket for 2003 election. He rejected it and opted to contest the governorship. Will you call that betrayal? Capital NO; he only exercised his constitutional right. He attempted again in 2007, 2010 rerun and 2011 election. He did not realize his ambition. Fast forward to 2015. Omo-Agege teamed up with Ogboru in Labour Party, where Ogboru was the leader. He contested senate seat while Ogboru as usual contested the governorship seat. INEC declared PDP candidates winners of both elections. They were both dissatisfied and headed for the courts. Ogboru lost, while Omo-Agege retrieved his mandate from PDP. His accusers should come and explain where Omo-Agege betrayed Ogboru in this instance. I am not a lawyer, but doesn’t privity of contract doctrine applies in election cases or similar situation. What could Omo-Agege have done to remedy the situation?

On March 7, 2017, Ogboru, Omo-Agege defected from Labour Party to the All Progressive Congress (APC), where Omo-Agege contested the 2019 election to return to the senate. He won and ultimately became the Deputy President of the Senate. With this position, became the leader of APC in the South-South, not just Delta State. Some people went to town that Omo-Agege betrayed Ogboru. When these people were confronted with facts to the contrary, they withdrew into their shells. I am therefore surprised that PDP people are bringing up this baseless allegation that has been put to rest.

The last wild allegation of betrayal I want to discuss is the alleged betrayal of Olorogun Otega Emerhor by Omo-Agege. When one of the founding fathers of APC at the national level and the arrowhead in Delta State, Senator Akpor Pius Ewherido, suddenly died in 2015, a huge leadership vacuum was created. Chief Adelabu Bodjor, a founding member of APC felt APC should not die prematurely in Delta State with the death of the arrowhead. He consulted other members of the APC and approached Emerhor to fill the leadership vacuum left by the death of Ewherido. He did just that and financed the party at the initial stages.

At some point, Ogboru, Omo-Agege joined APC. There were conflicts initially, but Emerhor did not shy away from the reality. Though he nurtured the party in its infancy, he knew the highest political office holder should be the leader of the party in the state and he conceded the position to Omo-Agege. There were initial power tussle, but the issue of betrayal is not existent. Also that Omo-Agege betrayed Ogboru in APC does not even arise.

Omo-Agege emergence as APC leader in Delta State is the standard practice in most parts of Nigeria. In Delta State PDP, before the party primaries in Ogwashikwu in 2006, Chief Ibori invited the top PDP governorship aspirants to government house. Those at the meeting included Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa, Sen. Omo-Agege and the late Sen. Akpor Pius Ewherido. Chief Ighoyota and Sen. James Manager (I am not too sure if manager was there anymore) were also present. At the meeting, Ibori announced Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as the new leader of PDP in Delta State and told the rest of the aspirants to go to the stadium, venue of the PDP Primaries, and tell their supporters they were stepping down for Uduaghan. None of them did, but it was clear where the pendulum was going to swing. Uduaghan became governor and PDP leader in the state. When Okowa took over as governor, he also became the leader of PDP in Delta State. So what are these guys talking about? What is good for the goose is not good for the gander, or if it is PDP, it is gold, but if it is Omo-Agege it is base metal?

One more thing, enough of this taunting of people with climbing on Ogboru’s back to victory. Nobody disputes Ogboru’s position as the symbol of opposition in Delta State since early 2000 to when APC became well established in Delta State, but as the Urhobos say, if you support a lazy man, they will not only beat him, if you are not lucky, they will beat you too. Ogboru’s party produced two senators (Ewherido and Omo-Agege), but these were political heavy weights in their own right and former governorship aspirants in PDP. Politics is collective game and it is the joining of forces that bring victory. In 2007 DPP produced a senator, two house of Representative members and eight house of assembly members. February and March are here. We eagerly wait for the performance of APGA in Delta State where Ogboru is now the governorship candidate.

Back to the issue, what PDP media team should have done is to explain to millions of disappointed Nigerians, especially Southerners, who were elated by the collective decision of the governors of the South, why Okowa made a volte face. They can remind Deltans that the state has never produced a vice president and tell us the benefits state will get from the position. Rather some PDP they ignored addressing Omo-Agege’s message and focused on the messenger.

Moving forward, let campaigns be based on issues concerning Deltans. Still on the burner is how the Delta State Government spent the N142b derivation fund in concrete terms, not vague explanations. In addition, for some time, the Delta Province of Bendel State asked for creation of Delta State, while the Aniomas wanted Anioma State. In 1991, for reasons best known to Gen. Ibrahim Babaginda, he created only one state, named it Delta and put the capital in Asaba, a border. That is no longer an issue; the issue now is that almost 16 years after, two PDP governments have not been able to complete the road between Asaba and Ughelli in the old Delta Province. The long distance to Asaba was one of the major complaints of the people of Delta Province in 1991. These and many other issues are what we should be talking about; issues-based campaigns.

Francis Ewherido is a foundation member of APC

December 2, 2022
Ovie Omo-Agege: In Case You Have Forgotten! – By Ejiro Idama

By Ejiro Idama

Nigerian politics has a way of throwing up dimwits who clothe themselves in the shining robes of identities that they really are not. These dimwits have largely contributed to the retarded development of Nigeria as a nation. Since our politics and social consciousness are still evolving it is expected that such maladies are bound to occur.

But as we grow and evolve such persons who parade themselves in borrowed robes and lay false claims to messianic credentials should be identified and exposed for what they really are before the destroy the body polity.

These elements who come in the guise of messiahs, but are really traitors are grouping again. We must be vigilant, identify, name and point at them. They should be exposed and stopped so that they will not jeopardize us further. The lackey Deputy Senate President of the rubber stamp and most docile Senate ever in Nigeria, Senator Augustine Ovie Omo-Agege is in the news again as always for the wrong reason.

A good example of political prostitution, Augustine Omo-Agege, he must be frightened of the name Augustine now, has suffered from an illusion of becoming governor of Delta State for seventeen years.

Omo-Agege who lived an obscure life in the United States of America (USA) after having been severely indicted for unethical practices, fled to Nigeria and not capable of court appearances joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hoping to climb on the back of his Chief Judge father.

Without a naira to his name Omo-Agege survived at the mercy of friends. He failed woefully when he tried to run for the House of Representatives seat. The kindhearted governor of Delta State at that time, Chief James Ibori took pity on him and appointed him as a personal assistant.

With deceit, blackmail and eye-service and some say juju, Omo-Agege worked his way to become a commissioner and fixed himself into the tenders board where he committed havocs tampering with projects whose amounts ran into billions of naira and which could have turned Delta State into an Eldorado. Agege got so power drunk when he became SSG that he thought of himself as the most powerful person in the state.

In his intoxication by power he stepped out to contest for the governorship of the State and failed woefully. He then became a serial election looser. Apart from the 2006 primaries that he lost, he failed in two governorship elections in 2011. He failed in his attempt to become senator in 2013. He failed in his attempt to become governor in the 2014 primaries. He failed trying to be a senator in 2015 until the court smuggled him into the red chambers. Agege has also been caught up in serial political prostitution. He was in PDP, then AC, he was in RPN, joined ACN, returned to PDP, ran to Labour Party and later jumped into APC. His record of political prostitution is second to none in Nigeria.

Agege is showing off as a political force, but this is absolutely untrue. He is just a political straw-man pretending to be a champion. He has always ridden to power and influence on the back of benefactors like Chief Ibori and Chief Great Ogboru good and selfless leaders that he later betrayed and brutally stabbed in the back. Agege is also a slimy opportunist who will do anything including groveling and crying to get power. The story of the mace theft and the resultant reward for him as Deputy Senate President and how he knelt down in slavish gratitude to President Buhari continue to hunt the Urhobo people for whom it is a taboo for a chief which he is to kneel.

Agege’s public service record is burdened by criminality. How he looted funds and turned his house into a CBN from where his cooks and housekeepers made away with bags of money is well known to Deltans. He also extorted contractors handling different projects across the State. He collected money for forty-eight projects in his Orogun clan which he didn’t execute. Let him tell Deltans how much he was worth between 2003 and 2005 and then how much he was worth in 2007.

But for the fact that we live in a society of forgive and forget Agege’s record of betrayal is unmatched. He betrayed the Urhobo people when he snatched ballot boxes to undermine the Urhobo choice of governorship candidate in the 2007 election. He was chased into the swamp where he took cover all night. He betrayed his foremost benefactor, Chief James Ibori. He betrayed Chief Otega Emerhor and Chief Great Ogboru. He has betrayed everybody that he was or is associated with.

Agege has also betrayed the Delta State ideal of rotational governorship which was adopted to promote fairness, equity, peace and stability. His uncontrolled aggression and inordinate ambition made him to disown the rotational principle in Delta State politics. He contested when it was the turn of Delta South. He also contested when it was the turn of Delta North. He is a betrayal of public trust and accord. He also manipulated the APC governorship primaries in 2019 to the extent that results were declared when contestants were still looking for the venue of the election. Is this man who is the symbol of lack of moral probity the one pretending to rescue Delta State?

There are also the many lies he has told Nigerians and Deltans. He lied that he saved President Buhari from impeachment when in truth there was no attempt to impeach the President. He lied about being in support of power shift when in truth he was the chief campaigner for Senator Ahmed Lawan for president hoping he would be his running mate. He lied about midwifing the electoral bill, but the truth was that he voted against electronic voting. He has also failed to complete the constitution amendment assignment. Is this the man that wants to be governor?

Let Agege tell us the people he is representing as senator and how well he has represented them. The five projects he proposed are all for his Orhomuru-Orogun a very small community if not the smallest Orogun community. What happened to the other twenty three clans that make up the Urhobo nation? Should such a nepotistic fellow be governor of Delta State? We have not forgotten and Agege who speaks in incoherent diffident splutters should remember his many political and moral infractions that make him grossly unsuitable for the high office of governor. He is not a political messiah but a political maniac. Just in case he has forgotten.

Ejiro Idama, a public commentator writes from Ozoro

November 28, 2022
Lagos Rally: Again, Tinubu’s incoherence goes viral

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu was again caught off guard at Saturday’s Lagos State mega campaign rally of the party.

TheNewsGuru com (TNG) reports the APC presidential candidate, Tinubu, despite shouting at the top of his voice sounded incoherent.

This is another trending video barely 24 hours after the former Lagos State Governor referred to the Delta guber candidate, Ovie Omo-Agege as the Niger Delta State Governor.

Watch:

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Media/News Company (@thenewsgurung)

November 26, 2022
2023: Delta APC begins Campaign Tour to Build a New Delta

As the countdown to the 2023 general elections hits up, the Delta State All Progressive Congress (APC) will on Tuesday 29 November 2022, kick-off its ward to ward Campaign tour with the titled, ‘BUILD A NEW DELTA TOUR’ in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State with three stops at Onicha-Ugbo, Issele-Ukwu and Onicha-Olona.

In a statement duly signed by the Delta APC Campaign Organization Director General, Godsday Orubebe, said the tour which will take the campaign train to over 80 stops across the 25 local government areas of the state will end on 20th January 2023 with Grand Finale at Asaba.

According to Orubebe, “During the tour, the Deputy President of the Senate and the Delta State APC Gubernatorial Candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege will tout his EDGE agenda to Build A New Delta. He will also hold town hall meetings with Deltans in all sectors of our society to discuss the sorry state of affairs in Delta State and his plans to turn things around and ensure that APC wins the 2023 Presidential, Governorship, Senate, House of Representatives and House of Assembly elections in Delta State.”

“The EDGE agenda is our covenant with the people of Delta State. It speaks to the needs of the residents of Delta state. These include Employment and Empowerment; Development; Good Governance and Enduring Peace and Security.
We invite all the good people of Delta State to join and welcome the next governor of Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege in this statewide march to take over Government House Asaba and save Delta state from the iron grip of a corrupt and unprogressive government of two men; the Executive Governor of Delta State, Dr. Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa and the Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Francis Orohwedor Sheriff Oborevwori who brought Delta State to her knees.”

He said; “It’s going to get worse if you allow Okowa to get his way in this election because Oborevwori has promise MORE of their failed policies. Okowa and Oborevwori must go on 29th May, 2023 so Delta can be Delta again.”

“So if you believe that there should be an end to Okowa’s plan to establish his political dynasty in Delta State, and continue to plunge the state into wanton and frivolous debts, then join us to help Build A New Delta where there are jobs for the mass of the unemployed citizens, hospitals, expanded and modernized infrastructure, transparent, open and accountable government, better schools, roads, clean environment; safe neighborhoods and communities; equal opportunity; and shared prosperity for all.”

“Join us to stem and reverse Okowa’s enslavement of unborn generation to debt. Join us to drive a worthy future for us, our children, and generations yet unborn.” Orubebe added appealed.

November 25, 2022
Why confirmation of NDDC board Chairman, members may delay

President of the Nigerian Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan has observed that there may be a delay in the confirmation of nominees for Chairman and members of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Senator Lawan made the observation following a point of order raised on the nomination of the NDDC Board Chairman and members by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District.

Recall that President Muhammadu Buhari today asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of his Special Adviser on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie who is from a non-oil producing area of Delta State as the substantive Chairman of the Board of the NDCC.

President Buhari’s letter which was read at plenary by the Senate President named 14 members of the NDDC Board to include: Dimgba Arugba, State representative from Abia (South East); Dr Emem Wilcox Wills, State representative from Akwa Ibom (South South); Elder Sen. Dimaro Denyabofa, State representative from Bayelsa (South South); Hon. Orok Duke,State representative from Cross River (South South) and Dr Pius Egberanmwen, State representative from Edo (South South).

Others are: Engr. Anthony Okene, State representative from Imo (South East); Hon Gbenga Edema, State representative from Ondo (South West); *Elekwati Dimpa, State representative from Rivers (South South); Alhaji Muhammed Kabir Abubakar, zonal representative from Nasarawa State (North Central); Alhaji Sule Iko Sadiq Sanni, zonal representative from Kebbi State (North West) and Prof. Tahir Mamman, OON, SAN, zonal representative from Adamawa State (North East).

TNG reports Buhari nominated Chief Dr Samuel Ogboku from Bayelsa (South South) for the position of Managing Director, for a term of two years, to complete the unexpired term of his predecessor; Major General Charles Airhiavbere (rtd) from Edo State (South South) for the position of Executive Director, Finance and Charles B. Ogunmola from Ondo State (South West) for the position of Executive Director, Projects.

Meanwhile, citing Order 42, the Deputy Senate President, Omo-Agege faulted the NDDC board nomination list sent to the Senate by President Buhari over the absence of a representative from Delta State, which he described as an anomaly.

Why thanking Buhari for eventually sending the list after almost three years, Omo-Agege said: “Listening to the list read out, I did not hear any name read out as a State Representative to represent Delta State in the board of the NDDC”.

The DSP went further to say: “By the provisions of Section 2 (1A and 1B), specifically 2(1B) of the NDDC Act, every State of the Niger Delta is supposed to have one member, an indigene of the State, representing the State in the board of the NDDC, as a State representative.

“Now, the list read out has all of the States represented but Delta State does not have a State representative. So, I will like to appeal to Mr President to graciously reach out to the Executive arm to do the needful, to correct the anomaly”.

Reacting, the Senate President, Lawan said: “I have taken note and I am using this opportunity to advise the Executive arm of government that because we want to screen and consider the request of Mr President for the nominees to be confirmed, the needful must be done that every State of the Niger Delta is supposed to have one State representative.

“In the case of Delta, you have the Chairman, you do not have a State representative. We will go strictly by the law establishing the NDDC. Let me also advise the Executive that it is in the interest of the Niger Delta and the entire country that we get that nomination for a State representative for Delta State. Otherwise, this will delay our processes here in the Senate for considering this request”.

November 23, 2022