The All Progressives Congress, APC, leader in Delta State, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, has threatened to expose the names of people in the Presidency who caused crisis in the party for their selfish interests.
Nwaoboshi, talking on the gubernatorial ambition of former Deputy Senate President, DSP, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, said APC in Delta State was a united family until after the presidential election won by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The former Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Niger Delta threatened to expose those behind the crisis and gang-up against Omo-Agege, APC gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 elections from getting anything from the present government.
Though he revealed that Omo-Agege’s guber ambition, to the best of his knowledge, may not materialize under the platform of APC in 2027, he said “the persons l vowed to expose have prevented Omo-Agege from getting anything from the present government. His only concern, which he informed me on a few occasions, is that he needs to be recognised and accorded due respect as a former leader of the party in the state.
“You remember when people were challenging him then, and I said Omo-Agege is the leader of the party in the state. I challenged them to a debate because I have been around. He is a former Deputy Senate President. There was no contest as to who was the leader of the party. It was some people in the Presidency that triggered it.
“Some people in the Presidency triggered the Delta APC controversy. The problems, or what you would define as a crisis in the Delta APC before the governor came in, were minimal. Of the two senators that APC had at the time, Omo-Agege contributed over 80 per cent to their being senators. He made them the party’s candidates. I said no, he is the leader of the party.
“I have advised him as a senior brother and someone older than him in the game of politics. I have told him he cannot run if he remains in the APC and the governor remains in the APC. He cannot win the party’s primary, and it will be difficult for him to win the election. I have had private meetings with him and apprised him of my position.
“I am talking about the party primary. It is difficult for him to change the system when a sitting governor is running for a second term. I have advised him, and I don’t think so based on my personal meeting with him, our former governor, Ibori, and other leaders” Nwaoboshi maintained.
