Ojougboh lied against Omo-Agege, says APC

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Senator Ovie Omo-Agege

By Mercy Obojeghren

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta has accused a chieftain of the party in the state, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, of lying against its governorship candidate in the just concluded general elections, Sen. Ovie Omo-Agege.

A statement issued on Thursday in Asaba by Mr Ima Niboro, the Director of Communications and Media Strategy of Delta APC Campaign Organisation, stated that the allegation against Omo-Agege by the expelled chieftain of the party, Dr Ojougboh, was not true.

According to him, the allegation that the governorship hopeful did not carry everybody along, hence the party lost the election in Delta was “a tissue of lies”.

Delta APC had on Monday expelled Ojougboh over alleged anti-party activities.

Niboro explained that prior to the 2019 elections, Ojougboh chose Omo-Agege and Chief Great Ogboru faction of the APC to contest the governorship primary election of the party because he believed it was the winning side.

He further stated that it was only after he lost that he began to wage a war against Omo-Agege.

Niboro explained that in 2019, the party had two factions, one led by the founding leader in Delta, Chief Otega Emerhor, and the other led by Omo-Agege and Ogboru.

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He stated that APC had two factions – the mainstream APC, led by Olorogun Emerhor, and the faction that was led by Sen. Omo-Agege and Chief Great Ogboru – before it later closed ranks.

“I happened to be with the Emerhor faction.

“In fact, I ran for the House of Representatives, Emerhor ran for the Senate, but because of the crisis we were outmanoeuvred and we lost.

“But Emerhor, myself and two others I will not name, sat down and took a deliberate decision that we were not going to throw away the baby with the bath water and that we were going to put the party together.

“The other two didn’t agree and they quit the party.

“But I stood with Emerhor because he and I had agreed on our direction even before we invited the other two persons.

“That was how the process started and the APC came together and today we are one big happy family.

“However, Ojougboh was with us in 2019,” he said.

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