The All Progressives Congress gubernatorial candidate for 2023 elections in Delta State Ovie Omo-Agege has denied dumping the political party to team up with embittered Nasir El-Rufai, the immediate past governor of Kaduna State.
Rumours have been circulating in the media that he has dumped the party and that he would work against President Bola Tinubu, who will most likely seek another term in office in 2027.
Omo-Agege lost the election to Sheriff Oborevwori, who has been rumoured to be planning to dump the Peoples Democratic Party he used in 2023.
In a statement signed by his media aide Sunny Areh, the former deputy Senate President said that it was a strange publication and that he is not planning to float a new political party.
“In the weird publication, it was alleged that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, Deputy President of the Senate in the 9th Session, is scheming to abandon the All Progressives Congress, APC, to team up with Mallam Nasir el-Rufai to float a phantom new political party. The story is not only shocking but idiotic.
“Having led the APC to its best ever performance in the 2023 general elections in Delta State where the party won two of the three senatorial seats and Senator Ovie Omo-Agege was narrowly cheated from coasting to victory in the Governorship election, associating his name with the political group the former Kaduna State governor is said to be working on is a clear case of fable without any basis whatsoever.
“The story is the product of a hatchet job orchestrated by political forces whose only path to relevance is to create a wedge between Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” he said.
“Let it be known that as the leader of APC in Delta State and having taken it through a record showing in the 2023 general elections, I remain irrevocably committed, steadfast, and primed to the task of completing the job of rescuing the state from the serial failed administrations in 2027,” he added.
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