The Delta State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship campaign Council of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has refuted reports of crisis rocking the party over unfounded N1.8 million allocated to the media team.
The Director, Communications and Media Strategy, Delta APC Campaign Council, Ima Niboro in a press statement on Wednesday December 28th 2022, said he and the Director General of the Campaign Council, Elder Godsday Orubebe have a good working relationship.
Niboro, who doubles as a member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, said it was laughable that there is a crack in the APC governorship campaign Council.
Read his full statement
I read with considerable amusement, your story on a purported crack in the Delta All Progressives Congress, APC, over some “N1.8 million“ meant for media relations.
Your report claimed that this was at the heart of a so called rift between Campaign Director-General, Elder Godsday Orubebe, and the undersigned. This is not true.
When your reporter contacted me, I went to great lengths to explain why there cannot be a rift between Orubebe and I, given our long standing history of friendship and excellent working relations.
I indeed pointed out to him that if there are any two persons with the best working relationship in the council, it is Orubebe and I.
I recall urging him to drop the story since there was no substance to it. I indeed considered it a personal insult to be linked to a non existent “fight” between a former Minister and a former Presidential Adviser over such a silly sum and I told him that much.
Similarly, it is inconceivable that I could be said to be heading “a faction“ of the campaign council, without naming the other members of the so called faction. This doesn’t make any sense whatsoever.
I consider that this story was written in utmost bad faith, and falls far short of the standards your medium is reputed for. It has all the classic elements of beer parlour gossip and market place innuendo. It has no place on the well regarded pages of Sahara Reporters, and should be withdrawn forthwith.
Ima Niboro
Director, Communications and Media Strategy,
Delta APC Campaign Council.
Member, APC Presidential Campaign Council.
28th December, 2022.
