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  • Ede Dafinone: Symbol of a new Delta – Omo-Agege

    Ede Dafinone: Symbol of a new Delta – Omo-Agege

    Chief Ede Dafinone, the Senator-elect for Delta Central senatorial district, has been described as the symbol of a new Delta State in his ability to confront and defeat the old order.

    In his birthday message to Dafinone who is 61 years today, the Deputy Senate President and governorship candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, said the Senator-elect has the dogged spirit, inventiveness and drive needed to build a new Delta.

    According to a press release issued by Sunny Areh, Chief Press Secretary to the Deputy Senate President, Ede Dafinone was extolled for his humility, strong character and for imbibing the will to serve.

    “As a chartered accountant of international repute, Chief Ede Dafinone humbled himself and carried on with his great father’s call to service. Chief David Dafinone, his father, was a second republic distinguished Senator and raised a Guinness Book of Records recognized family of accountants, lived a life of service.

    “When a son holds aloft the lofty ideal of service, he is a pride not only to his family but to the society. The Senator-elect has become a symbol of what any individual, society or nation can achieve even in the face of enormous forces that stunt development”, Omo-Agege stated.

    He said that by defeating the ruling party in Delta State to emerge Senator-elect, “Ede Dafinone proved that our fight to wrestle the State from the hands of forces of retrogression can be won.

    “I am proud to be a brother, friend and associate of a man with such vision and drive. I am confident that when he is inaugurated into the National Assembly, Nigerians will see a man bubbling with ideas on making the nation greater”, he said.

    Omo-Agege urged him to gear up for the tasks ahead which “goes beyond revving up the law making machinery in Abuja, but also being part of building a new Delta State”.

    In the February 25, 2023 election, Ede Dafinone who flew the APC flag defeated the field of contestants to emerge Senator-elect in Delta Central senatorial zone.

    Ede Dafinone started his career in 1984 with Touche Ross & Co in London and joined the family firm in Lagos in 1989. His experience spans audit and consultancy in a variety of industries.

    Ede Dafinone was appointed the Chair of the Nigerian Conservation Foundation in 2015 and was a one time Chairman of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria Export Promotion Group (MANEG).

  • Delta APC commiserates with Oborevwori over assassin’s attack

    Delta APC commiserates with Oborevwori over assassin’s attack

    …says PDP should stop playing politics with insecurity

    The Delta All Progressives Congress, APC, Campaign Council, has received with shock the reported attack on the Delta Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Gubernatorial Candidate, House Speaker Sheriff Oborevwori, by suspected assassins.

    We unequivocally condemn this attack and demand an immediate investigation and apprehension of the perpetrators by the relevant security agencies.

    While we cannot say without the benefit of an investigation if this condemnable act was politically motivated or not, we make haste to say that we are all Deltans and we are all brothers and sisters.

    The Delta APC is on the cusp of a historic victory. Regardless, we choose not to play politics with insecurity. We hold this so dear to heart that Enduring Peace and Security is a crucial part of our EDGE agenda.

    It is in this regard that we firmly deplore the finger pointing by PDP in a matter that should be of grave concern to all. Theirs is public communication at it’s most tasteless, and should have no place in any civilized discourse.

  • OPINION: Omo-Agege’s Fraud Polytechnic Orogun – By Okoh Brume

    OPINION: Omo-Agege’s Fraud Polytechnic Orogun – By Okoh Brume

    The good people of Delta State must be alert to the fraud being committed against them by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. It is sad and even tragic that there is nothing too difficult for Omo-Agege to do in order to secure undue political advantage.

    His new antic is to deceive our youths to think that the ongoing Federal Polytechnic at Orogun was ready to employ them.

    Omo-Agege has transformed the institution to Fraud Polytechnic Orogun. In the last few days he has invaded the social media with videos and pictures of ongoing construction work at the polytechnic site to give an impression that the school will resume any moment from now.

    Not satisfied with the above stunt, Omo-Agege directed his foot soldiers to fabricate an advertorial for vacancies to be circulated in the social media calling for people to apply for different positions in the school that is not ready to take-off.

    Before the vacancy advertisement, Omo-Agege deceived and pushed the Minister of Education to appoint principal officers for the school. This he also did in order to deceive the people that the school was ready in order to score cheap political points.

    The questions we should ask Omo-Agege are: is this the first time a school was being built in Nigeria? What is so special that he is parading and advertising the polytechnic as if it was his private school?

    Can he tell us what happened to the initial funds meant for the polytechnic?

    Let us tell the true story of the Federal Polytechnic which is for now Fraud Polytechnic Orogun. The institution was initially proposed for Aboh in Delta North, but Omo-Agege stole it and took it to his village Orhomuru-Orogun.

    Omo-Agege seized the money approved for the construction of the polytechnic and stockpiled it for the governorship election. It was when senators in the Senate Committee on Education threatened to drag him to the EFCC that he went to site to build the school.

    He deceived the Minster of Education to announce the principal officers of the school so that it will create the impression that it will take-off now. But the Minister advised the principal officers designate that the school will not open this year and that they should all remain where they are presently working. But Omo-Agege was not happy with the Minister’s position so he asked his social media boys to draft an advertorial, put the name of the Registrar designate and circulate in the social media.

    The fact that his barely educated social media boys drafted the advertorial was the reason for the many errors in it and the inclusion of many courses that are not in the polytechnic curriculum.
    The truth is that three Federal polytechnics were approved for Abia, Delta and Kano States. How come only the one in Delta State is calling for applications to fill vacancies? Omo-Agege is playing on the intelligence of our people to score cheap political points. Such a man who plays politics with anything and even taking advantage of our people is not fit and proper to be governor. All those who have applied should check and ask for the school’s website. The address is just a google website. The school has no governing council yet they put the Registrar as secretary to council. Which council? Orhomuru-Orogun council? Deltans must beware of an unscrupulous Omo-Agege. What is on ground is Omo-Agege’s Fraud Polytechnic Orogun. The real Federal polytechnic will not open until 2024.

  • OPINION:Omo-Agege, Ima Niboro and the Delta APC misadventure-By Friday Ewiwilem

    OPINION:Omo-Agege, Ima Niboro and the Delta APC misadventure-By Friday Ewiwilem

    It is indeed true that a drowning man clutches at a straw no matter how hopeless he might be. This is exactly the case with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege the governorship candidate of the Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) and his clay footed Director of Communication and Media Strategy, Ima Niboro, disgraced presidential spokesman, failed House of Representatives aspirant.

    The desperation and frustration of the duo was established in a press release by Niboro titled “IGNORE OKOWA, PDP CAMPAIGN OF CALUMNY AGAINST APC, OMO-AGEGE” dated 8 March 2023.

    In this inebriate release, Niboro struggling to maintain his servile status as Omo-Agege’s media attack dog, struggled so hard to ascribe his master’s bad press to Governor Okowa, Hon. Oborevwori and the PDP.

    We understand that Omo-Agege has hired Sunny Areh to replace clumsy Niboro under whose watch Omo-Agege’s public image plummeted to point zero. Niboro must therefore write anything even if it is codswallop to retain his job.

    Niboro should look elsewhere for the source of Omo-Agege’s badly tarnished reputation. Omo-Agege is simply having his day in the court of public opinion. To begin with, Omo-Agege it was who started the campaign of calumny against Governor Okowa and the PDP by making utterly false claims against the man who is among the three of Nigeria’s best governors of his generation.

    Omo-Agege told lies upon lies and hired minions like Niboro to propagate his lies. But for each finger he pointed at Okowa, Oborevwori and the PDP, his other four fingers pointed at him. And whenever he looked at the mirror to look at those who destroyed Nigeria including Delta State, he sees himself and the APC.

    Niboro talks about Omo-Agege’s sterling records. We are forced to ask, where and when? Sterling records of a mace thief, of a man who broke into government offices to steal financial documents even on Sundays? Sterling records of a man who stole N80 Billion meant for roads in Edo and Delta States, of a man who stole 200 million naira meant for palliatives, of a man who stole pipeline surveillance money? Sterling records of a man who stole money meant for 48 projects in his Orogun kingdom between 2005 and 2007? Sterling records of a man who extorted contractors in Delta State to the extent that the helpless contractors had to flee the State? Sterling records of man who bribed the Delta Unity Group and other political groups with N10 billion? Haba, Niboro needs to go back to school to understand what sterling record really means.

    Niboro joining Omo-Agege in his broken singsong, accused Governor Okowa of dismal performance. Only Omo-Agege and Niboro do not know that Governor Okowa is one of the best three governors in today’s Nigeria.

    Just to mention a few of his achievements: 1, 900 kilometers of roads, three new universities, best and most ultra-modern public building in Nigeria, nine new state of the art technical colleges, best health insurance scheme in Nigeria, over twenty bridges, leisure village, hosting of Africa’s most prestigious sports fiesta, provision of security, creation of employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for over 2 million women and youths, construction and upgrading of schools and hospitals in Delta State, regular payment of workers’ salaries every month unfailingly, etc.

    Besides Lagos, which APC governed state matches Governor Okowa’s records of achievements? The APC states owe salaries for months, sack workers and are insecure. The APC states are a replica of the doom that the APC has brought upon Nigeria. That is why Deltans have rejected Omo-Agege because they know that he represents the doom that is the APC.

    Omo-Agege accuses Governor Okowa of borrowing, yet the same Omo-Agege as Deputy Senate President has approved over 30 trillion naira loan for Buhari. Omo-Agege is accusing Governor Okowa of betraying the South by running as vice presidential candidate. Well, Okowa did that to redeem Nigeria. But Omo-Agege actually mobilized for Senate President Ahmed Lawan during the APC presidential primaries so that he could run as his vice presidential candidate.

    So what is Omo-Agege talking about? Did he not direct all Delta APC delegates to vote for Lawan during the APC presidential primaries?

    Deltans know better and they have rejected Omo-Agege, an ethnic champion who does not want Deltans of other ethnic nationalities to govern Delta State. It is his hatred for other ethnic groups that has made him to contest for governorship in every election since 2006 because he doesn’t see the Ijaw, Isoko, Itsekiri, Ndokwa, Aniocha or Oshimili people as having equal stake in Delta State. He is disdainful of the rotation arrangement that has brought fairness and equity to Delta State.

    Niboro is finished professionally and he needs to earn his pay from Omo-Agege hence his daily fights with the other social media rats in his master’s kitchen. Deltans know better and they have rejected Omo-Agege in the court of public opinion. This rejection is a prelude to the ultimate rejection coming up on Saturday 18 March.

  • Omo-Agege welcomes Former SSG to APC

    Omo-Agege welcomes Former SSG to APC

    …promises inclusive government as Gov

    Deputy President of the Senate and Delta State Governorship candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has promised an all inclusive government if elected Governor.

    Speaking at Owhelogbo while welcoming former Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Comrade Ovuozourie Macaulay to the APC fold, he said that all well-meaning Deltans would be accommodated by the government.

    The Deputy President of the Senate commended Macaulay for his courage and forthrightness, assuring him of APC’s readiness to work with him to better the lot of Isoko.

    In particular, he said that APC will bank on the wealth of experience and support of the former SSG to ensure massive victory of the party in the Governorship and House of Assembly elections.

    He called on Isoko people to support and vote for all candidates of the APC in the same way they voted at the presidential and National Assembly elections.

    The former SSG crossed over to APC along with thousands of his supporters and many different political grassroots groups who hitherto belonged to the PDP.

    Addressing the mammoth crowd Macaulay attributed his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to leadership failure.

    He asserted that his defection became necessary “after several attempts to correct the anomalies in the PDP proved abortive,” adding that the party was established to accommodate all and not a section of the people.

    He said that Omo-Agege is reliable and trustworthy with listening ears to the yearnings of the people; and that without doubt, he was confident that Omo-Agege’s administration would be beneficial to the Isoko.

    Accordingly the former Chieftain of the PDP assured APC of total victory for the party through general mobilization and votes for all it’s candidates in the elections.

    Ends.

  • OPINION: Omo Agege and Federal Polytechnic Orogun [kwale]; Matters Arising-By Olorogun Olori Magege

    OPINION: Omo Agege and Federal Polytechnic Orogun [kwale]; Matters Arising-By Olorogun Olori Magege

    So much has been said of the several Federal projects that Senator Ovie Omo Agege attracted to Orogun Kingdom but all sited at Orhomuru his village.

    Many have raised the ethical issues about a Senator representing eight local government areas siting more than four Federal projects in his little village in the extreme corner of his kingdom.

    We must remind ourselves that the Federal Polytechnic project was the brainchild of the Member Representing Ukwuani-Ndokwa Federal Constituency and it was to be sited at Kwale. The matter was on the floor of the House of Representative and the good people of Ndokwa were already celebrating the prospect of the school being sited in their community.

    Suddenly in the upper chambers where Senator Ovie Omo Agege holds sway as the deputy senate President, a bill for the establishment of a Polytechnic in Orogun surfaced. Both Orogun and Kwale are in Delta State.

    Not too many people were surprised and amused. The Orogun people, according to a version of their history, are paternally Ukwuanis from Abbi but maternally Urhobo. Indeed the typical Orogun person is bilingual speaking both Ukwuani and Urhobo interchangeably in conversations.

    So when Ovie therefore decided to sponsor a bill establishing a Federal Polytechnic in Orogun in the Upper Chambers knowing similar bill sponsored by his colleague representing Ndokwa Ukwuani Federal Constituency was being entertained at the lower chamber, many with a conscience were very surprised.

    Orogun and Kwale are both in Delta State and the possibility of two federal polytechnics in one state is near zero. Ovie muzzled his way through and his bill scaled through.
    One would have expected Ovie to compensate Kwale with one of the many federal projects he attracted to his Senatorial District having hijacked the Federal Polytechnic Kwale dream. At least the Law School would have been an appropriate compensation. But such is not in the Machiavellian world in which Ovie lives.

    Ovie decided that the campus of the school should be in his Orhomuru village. He went on to grab ancestral lands that belong to some indigenous families of nearby Ugono Village without due process or compensation; huge expanse of land measuring 7 miles square. The dispossessed families are today without land to eke-out a livelihood nor money to start a new life. Surprisingly Ovie left his family’s sprawling land untouched saving it for future speculation. Is he not a smart guy!!!!

    And there is no prospect of the Federal Government or State Government paying compensation to the land owners.
    Because Ovie ‘donated’ the land to Federal Government as if the land belonged to him, payment of compensation may be impossible. Had the Federal Government approached the State Government for the land as is the required procedure, the State Government would have compensated the land lords for enumerated economic goods on the land. But because he wanted no one to share in the glory, Ovie decided to grab peoples’ land and ‘donate’ to Federal Government. But he left his family land out of the ‘donation’. What selfishness and wickedness.
    Till date Ovie had not paid a kobo to the landlords he dispossessed of their land. Meanwhile he is surveying his family land and plotting it into smaller portions for private development.

    And this is the man who wants to govern Delta State.
    God forbid!

    Chief Olori Magege wrote from Ugono Orogun.

  • Delta: 800 LP support groups vow to pitch tent with Omo-Agege

    Delta: 800 LP support groups vow to pitch tent with Omo-Agege

    A coalition of 800 support groups for Peter Obi in Delta State have pitched tent with Delta All Progressives Congress , APC, Governorship candidate, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, ahead of the March 11 guber election in Delta State.

    Speaking at an interactive session with the APC Governorship candidate over the weekend, in Asaba, Mr Ochuko Edafe, Lead Coordinator of Coalition of Obidients Movement in Delta Central, said the Obidients vote individuals and not parties.

    He was responding to a speech by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege who addressed the Obidients on the pains of misgovernance experienced from the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa administration in the past eight years and the need to join forces with the APC to defeat the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, and Governor Okowa on March 11.

    ” We Obidients we follow the footsteps and watch the character of our Principal, His Excellency, Mr Peter Obi, and when we came down home to our State, Delta, we decided we are going to look out for the same character and among all the people running for governor of Delta State, His Excellency, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has those qualities and character and as you can see, he is a man of the people who is ready to meet with the people anytime. We are not card carrying members of any political party. We look for qualities of a good leader and we have chosen to work with Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. He is the most credible candidate for the 2023 governorship election in Delta State. That is where we have pitched out tent and that is where we have decided to follow.

    “We know everything that is happening in Delta State and now that we have the opportunity to remedy the situation we want to maximize it. Since 1999 till date there has not been a senator who performed like Senator Omo-Agege. People ask why don’t we follow the Labour Party governorship candidate and we say, we follow Peter Obi because he is credible and that is why we say, the only credible candidate as far as Delta State governorship election is concerned is Senator Ovie Omo-Agege. I want to assure you that the way the February 25 presidential election went that is the way it will go on March 11, expect more votes for Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.

    Earlier on, Senator Omo-Agege expressed bitterness about the burden of suffering Governor Okowa has placed on Deltans saying he as governorship candidate of the APC was on the same page with philosophical views on how Deltans can live a better life and called for an alliance to fight the battle of the March 11 governorship election.

    ” We are not happy with the way Okowa has punished our mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who gave the best part of their lives serving Delta State and upon retirement Okowa refused to pay them their gratuities and pensions. On that, we are all on the same page.

    ” We are also not happy that our students who are in tetiary institutions in Delta State are being made to pay so much money by way of school fees and levies. We know when Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan left office, tuition was N25,000. Today under Governor Okowa tuition is N300,000. Are we happy about that?
    “On that one, I, Ovie Omo-Agege Delta APC Governorship candidate and you are on the same page.

    “We have so much in common, we have to come together, we have to work together and chase away Okowa and PDP from Delta State. We have succeeded in the first step, when election came on Saturday, the man who has stolen all our money said he wanted to be vice president, we said it can never happen. All of us came out and we chased PDP out. So now, the man can never be vice president. We have one more battle to go, we have to retire him permanently. We don’t have emperors in Delta State. Here we dig 6-feet graves to bury our dead but we are going to politically bury this man in a 21 foot grave. We don’t want the afflictions of Okowa and PDP in Delta State again.

    ” I want to make a commitment to all of you today, I feel your pains, we are on the same page. We want a Delta State where there will be job opportunities for our children when they leave school, where we will have good infrastructure, good roads, good schools, good hospitals and where workers will be paid their gratuities when they retire. A Delta State where we have 24 hours electricity, where companies operating across the Niger can come here to do business and create jobs openings for our youths.

    ” For us to get all of these, you have to elect a governor. I am the only one standing to fight and chase out Okowa, all other persons are pretenders who are enlisted into the battle to protect Okowa’s interest. Okowa is the one financing them. He is doing so because he wants a third term by proxy. I cannot do it alone, I need your help. I want all of us to come together. Between now and Saturday, go out there and canvass on behalf of Ovie Omo-Agege. When I emerge governor it is you that have emerged governor. When it is good for me, it is good for you. By God’s grace, if I emerge governor, come to me and tell me, this is what we want you to do for us. We are going to run a participatory government. We are going to bring you into government. I want to thank you, please do not rest. You started this and you have to finish it.

    ” Today, Okowa is running around begging everybody, moving about like a wounded lion. You see him on TV crying that election was rigged against him when we know he is the one who rigged election. When we know he is the one who stole the election in Ika federal Constituency and in Delta North. And for us in Delta Central he was prepared to steal our senate seat, in Delta South he wanted to steal our senate seat too but we refused.”

  • Delta 2023: Why Omo-Agege is the right choice for Governor-By Olorogun Bernard Okumagba

    Delta 2023: Why Omo-Agege is the right choice for Governor-By Olorogun Bernard Okumagba

    Our state, Delta, is at an epochal moment that will determine whether we make the bend to get on the road to development or if we regress. There is little doubt that most Deltans are disappointed with the condition of our state. For a state that is blessed with abundant oil, gas and solid mineral resources, arable land and some of the best human capital in Nigeria, it is without a doubt that Delta should not be in its current sorry state.

    Delta is the largest producer of oil and gas in Nigeria, with more raw materials in clay, limestone, kaolin, silica, tar sand and decorative rocks, which if properly harnessed, would provide job opportunities for our fast growing population and teeming unemployed youths.

    So why is a state so blessed with such an array of raw materials, many of which have not been harnessed, be in such a terrible state where there is mass youth unemployment and despair? That is an issue at play here as Deltans go to the poll to elect a governor on March 11, 2023. It is clear that if we are to change our story from despair to a new era of new economic opportunities, development and growth, Deltans must vote in a governor that means business. That person is Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Senator Omo-Agege comes with verifiable records of performance as a lawmaker. He has distinguished himself excellently at the Red Chamber of the National Assembly to the benefit of all Deltans. Senator Omo-Agege will replicate his endless developmental strides exemplified by the numerous projects he attracted to his Constituency and beyond while serving as Senator representing Delta Central for the past 7 (seven) years-plus and as Deputy Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the past 3 years-plus. He will also be bringing his vast experience to bear in the management of the state resources as Governor of Delta State.

    Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is a development-oriented administrator. As Governor, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege would usher in a new vista of hope and opportunities for Deltans. Omo-Agege’s emergence will also improve the relationship and enhance synergy between the Federal and Delta State Governments and thereby, attract the needed development currently eluding the hard working and peaceful people of the State.

    A peek into the BAND agenda of the Omo-Agege manifesto shows a candidate that has done serious work. Deltans who have followed his campaigns at rallies and town hall meetings across the State would notice that he has shown a clear understanding of the needs of our people and has equally articulated a very clear and measurable agenda towards meeting the needs. His manifesto and presentations shows understanding and clear intent, which Deltans cannot take for granted.

    Explaining his mission, Omo-Agege said: “Our men and women must have decent jobs that allow a good quality of life. Our programme for the next 4 years in Delta State will bring back job creation, a productive economy, a sense of community and respect for people. Creating jobs for young people is a challenge which will define us, for this generation and the next, and will remain a key priority for us as part of our long-term commitment to full employment.”

    He adds: “To create jobs, we will introduce an ambitious ‘Delta State Employment, Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Programme (DEEP) and will support our Social Economy and our Small and Medium Enterprises. DEEP is an unbreakable commitment to be fulfilled with innovative ideas and reforms targeting massive private-sector economic development and growth through responsible management of government resources and processes.

    “The driving strategy behind DEEP will create modern cluster industries and manufacturing centres that will generate good jobs in every Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State. Our target is to create the right environment and support mechanism, including structured state guarantees, for the private sector to develop at least 5 major employment-generating corporate vehicles in each LGA annually. These will drive well-organised, government-supported and actively supervised Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) to be strategically spread across the State on the basis of the unique economic strength of each LGA. This is at the core of our overall BUILD A NEW DELTA – BAND governance agenda.”

    Delta State has not had a leader who lucidly articulates his vision as Omo-Agege does. Omo-Agege’s manifesto immensely underscores his passion and the promise of a new Delta anchored on creating employment, development, good governance and enduring security.

    Yet another plus is that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is a detribalised Deltan whose actions, body language and antecedents are devoid of ethnic sentiments. Rather, he has performed exceedingly well in his duties and has established friendships in various communities, local government areas, senatorial districts across Delta State and beyond. All these are assets that will come handy to Build A New Delta.

    When it comes to the imperatives and challenges of development in Delta State, Deltans should trust Omo-Agege who has delivered on his electoral promises in the past.
    I urge Deltans to choose this trustworthy, progressive-minded and detribalised Deltan who has a clear vision of massive infrastructural and social development of Delta State.

    _Olorogun Bernard Okumagba, FCA is a former Commissioner for Finance in Delta State_

  • OPINION: Omo-Agege’s confessions and the BBC Pidgin Interview – By Ebiowei Goodluck

    OPINION: Omo-Agege’s confessions and the BBC Pidgin Interview – By Ebiowei Goodluck

    Those who know Ovie Omo-Agege can attest to his low intellectual content.

    Forget about his good dressing and attempt to make an impression when he is talking, the guy made a Third Class at the University of Benin and a Pass at the Nigerian Law School.

    He also could not finish his Master’s degree at the lowly rated Tulane University in America.

    Many of us laugh when we hear him pointing fingers at his opponents as not educated.

    Even many of the APC bigwigs including Ede Dafinone (senator-elect), Otega Emerhor, Festus Keyamo, Otive Igbuzor all detest and mock him because of his intellectual level.

    Even his latter day servants like Efe Duku, who betrayed Ogboru and the pretentious, jobless and financially stranded Aruviere Martin Egharevba, all once mocked and laughed at him for his intellectual level. But they all now work and walk with him because he used brawn and jibiti to get to where he is and they want to be around the corridors of power so they are beholden to him. This is very sad.

    Omo-Agege’s recent Pidgin BBC interview points to two things which are: his low intellectual capacity and how he has also infected his handlers with intellectual mediocrity.

    The widely circulated interview was a string of goofs and gaffs which an averagely intelligent person will not make.

    The content of that interview revealed the real Omo-Agege and it is enough to send him to jail in saner climes.

    Omo-Agege in the interview confessed that he was part of a PDP rigging machinery for twelve years. This is enough to earn him handcuffs and a jail term. This surely sends a warning that what he plans to do this Saturday, since he knows he can’t win a fair and credible election, is to deploy his rigging machinery of which he confessed to being a master.

    Boastful and loud like an empty drum, Omo-Agege said Deltans know him very well because he has held many offices in Delta State. But can he survive an audit of his theft laden service? He saw service as a call to looting. In two years in government, Omo-Agege built mansions in Orogun, Effurun, Lagos, Abuja and turned his houses into Central Banks as they held more money than most government houses. Is this the service he is referring to? Deltans know him as the most corrupt politician in the state.

    Like the kettle calling the pot black, Omo-Agege accused Governor Okowa of betraying the South for running as vice presidential candidate with Atiku. Omo-Agege was also planning to run as vice presidential candidate with Ahmed Lawan, but Lawan lost the presidential ticket. Omo-Agege accused Okowa and Sheriff Oborevwori of taking loans. The same Omo-Agege as Deputy Senate President has approved over 77 trillion in loans for his master, President Buhari.

    The truth is that for every finger Omo-Agege points at Okowa, his other four fingers are pointing at him. Omo-Agege called Oborevwori a stooge of Okowa. But has Omo-Agege not been a slave of Buhari and Ahmed Lawan? Did he not mastermind the stealing of the senate mace? Did he not , work against the electronic transmission of result, the BVAS and iREV? Did he not chose to remain silent when Fulanis herdsmen were killing the Urhobo people? A slave is calling someone else a stooge. How laughable?

    Omo-Agege accused Oborevwori of supporting “deve” that is extortion of property developers. This is laughable. Omo-Agege is the foremost deve-collector-in-chief of Delta State. It is on record that between 2003 and 2007, Omo-Agege extorted contractors handling projects all over Delta State to the extent that many of them had to run from the State. He is yet to account for money meant for fifty projects in Orogun. He extorted DESOPADEC and the place bled.
    Omo-Agege lied when he said that Deltans have a consensus to vote for him. Deltans know him as an ethnic bigot who has no regard for other ethnic nationalities. He even told his friends that, left to him, he would have an Urhobo as his Deputy. Omo-Agege’s hatred for other ethnic nationalities was the reason he has contested every governorship election in the State since 2006. For this reason, Deltans have rejected him. Even the Urhobo people have also rejected him because during his tenure as Senator he represented only Orogun by siting all five federal projects there.
    Omo-Agege in the interview kept saying “I, I, I, I,” all through to show his poor understanding of government as a collective. He is a dictator and not a consensus builder. Look at how he destroyed the APC in Delta State. He is a victim of an ego that is a braggart. Deltans must avoid him on the ballot this Saturday. His confessions directly and indirectly make him unfit to be governor of our state.

  • (Opinion) Omo-Agege, the retirees and the youths’ surveillance money- By Friday Ewiwilem

    (Opinion) Omo-Agege, the retirees and the youths’ surveillance money- By Friday Ewiwilem

    The Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has taken his unscrupulous dance of shame by taking advantage of old men and women on whom he is now playing pranks.

    Some days ago, Omo-Agege cajoled and coerced some elders who didn’t know why they were being called out from the comfort of their homes and put them in a hall and called the encounter a town hall meeting.

    The shocked senior citizens were surprised that they were to be spoken to by a character whose antecedents they know very well.

    Many of them walked out of the hall, while a few stayed back to hear him.

    As those who staged a walk out were leaving a frantic Omo-Agege was heard calling them “please stay please stay, I will give you all something.”

    This was one insult too many to the senior citizens who hissed and walked away. This has been the pattern for Omo-Agege as he desperately seeks to realize his unholy ambition to destroy Delta State.

    Omo-Agege and the APC he represents mean no good for Nigeria as they thrive on lies, misinformation and deceit. What the APC has done to Nigeria since 2015 must not be repeated. The APC stole power through lies and it is leaving Nigeria in ruins.

    Those who have been observing Omo-Agege since he began his unholy campaigns will notice the pattern of lies, misinformation and pure deceit that has ruled his mind and mouth.

    The number of lies he has so far told run into hundreds and may be uncountable. From telling lies to discredit Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and Rt, Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Omo-Agege tells at least ten lies in each campaign ground.

    The same he has been repeating since he began his town hall meetings. When others are talking about their manifesto and vision for Delta State, Omo-Agege is busy uttering what amounts to hate speech simply because his manifesto is empty. He now comes across as a man without scruples and badly discredited by his own utterances.

    The truth is that the more lies Omo-Agege tells in his attempt to discredit Okowa and Oborevwori, the more he discredits himself. For everyone finger he points at either Okowa or Oborevwori, his other four fingers are pointing at him as : a mace thieves accomplice, a forgery convict, an identity manipulator, a project hijacker, a lie merchant, a groveling servant to Aso Rock cabal, a suit wearing thug and more.

    What Omo-Agege told the retirees was to as usual abuse Governor Okowa and promised to pay them their pensions. He said he will clear the pension in six months. We need to ask a question here. Is Delta State actually deficit in pensions? Delta State is not deficit in pensions in real terms.

    Pension takes time and process to handle to avoid errors and complications. This is the situation with some retirees in Delta State. The State is the most pension-friendly state in Nigeria. Of all Omo-Agege’s APC states in Nigeria, only two are paying salaries regularly how much more pensions. Yet, Omo-Agege left the log in his eyes to talk about pensions in Delta State.

    Many retirees saw through Omo-Agege’s lies and that was why they told him to count them out of his deceit and schemes. Local government retirees literally booed him and told him to take his tricks elsewhere.

    Omo-Agege who is talking about pensions is manipulating the cookie jar of surveillance money for pipeline protection.

    For three months now, Omo-Agege brother held on to the money meant to pay Urhobo, Ndokwa and Isoko youths in the pipeline surveillance contract to stop crude oil theft. The money is meant for struggling youths who have sacrificed so much to protect the nation’s commonwealth, but Omo-Agege brothers have chosen to hold onto their money, the sweat of their labour and the risk they subject themselves to in the interest of Nigeria.

    Could it be Omo-Agege sees the surveillance money as coming handy for his election having lost out in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and having been compelled to build the Orogun polytechnic or face the Peter Nwoboshi treatment? So, is  he relying on the surveillance money to prosecute his governorship ambition?

    How laughable is it now for somebody who allows his own blood brother to hold onto  money meant for struggling and sacrificial youths to be promising to pay pensions to old people? How believable are his pronouncements?

    This is the character of the man who wants to be governor. Deltans must reject him. Delta State doesn’t need a character like Omo-Agege who will be a state captor.

    The youths must also insist that they should release their money. We are aware that he is making frantic efforts to use gimmicks to lure some of the youth leaders. But Delta State is not for such a man who does not care

    about the welfare of the youths and who lies to the old. As Omo-Agege holds more town hall meetings people will hear more lies and fake promises. But each lie he tells and each fake promise he makes takes him further away from government house. We don’t such a man as our governor.