… house of assembly aspirant in comatose state
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, the Deputy Senate President cum Senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly (NASS), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has been elected as the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate.
Senator Omo-Agege Pulled 1,190 votes and was returns unopposed out of the 1,235 accredited delegates from the 25 council areas, with one invalid vote.
The election was supervised by officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) led by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Monday Udoh-Tom.
Declaring the results, the returning officer, Mrs Oyibo Nwaneri certified that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, having scored the highest number of valid votes hereby declare the winner of this primary election.
Speaking shortly after collecting his certificate of return, the deputy senate president commended the conducted of APC faithful and thanked all party officials and members for the confident reposed in him.
Omo-Agege promised to rescue Delta State, lamenting that the state has experienced gross failure in the past seven years in the hands of the PDP administration of Governor Ifeanyi Okowa.
“In the last seven and half years, Delta State has been misruled. We have had close to N900 billion but what is on the ground is not commensurate,” he said.
Our infrastructure are decaying, our youths are unemployed, our teachers are unpaid, and pensioners who have suffered to offer their services to the state are not paid their dues.
“The government has rather focus on things that do not add value to the lives of the people. The bad governance in the state is impacting on all irrespective of party affiliation.
“As we go into the campaigns, we have one thing in mind to rescue the state. We are going to focus on providing good governance, enduring peace and security which is what Deltans crave.
“As we seek to achieve this, it is not going to be a tea party, all hands must be deck. Okowa has failed and has therefore chosen someone to continue that failure of perpetuity in office but they will not succeed,” he said.
Meanwhile, APC House of Assembly aspirant for Ndokwa West local government area, Engr. Macbeth Ajieh was beaten to coma at the venue of the primary election.
