APC in Delta flays Omo-agege’s suspension, seeks penalties for lawmakers involved
THE Delta Central senatorial district of All Progressives Congress (APC) has flayed the suspension of Ovie Omo-agege from the senate, saying it was a violation of their rights to quality representation.
APC chairman in Delta Central, Olorogun Adelabu Bodjor, who addressed party supporters following the 90day suspension of OmoAgege, condemned the APC lawmakers who took part in the action and urged the national leadership of the party to sanction them.
He said: “The suspension of the senator representing the Urhobo at the National Assembly, has again, called to question the affairs of the senate. Omo-agege has been providing quality representation to the people of Delta Central and we are proud of him.
“If the senate leadership thinks that suspending him will deter him, they are wrong. The Urhobo nation is behind him, we believe in him and we will give him our support at any time. We, therefore, pass a vote of confidence on Omo-agege.
“We believe that he will bounce back better and stronger than his distractors in the National Assembly.
“But we want to say that Urhobo nation would never tolerate political intimidation and threat to our senator whom we voted for to represent us in the National Assembly.
“Omo-agege’s primary responsibility in the senate is to provide quality representation to the people of Delta Central and attract the dividends of democracy to the Urhobo people and that he has been doing well since we voted for him.
“We, therefore, urge him never to despair because he has the backing of the entire Urhobo people who voted him to represent us and not some individuals in the National Assembly,” he stated.
TEN senators from nine states at the weekend charged Abia State electorate to re-elect their performing political office holders in the 2019 general elections.
The senators are: Jonah Jang (Plateau), God’swill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom), Fatima Raji Rasaki (Ogun), Abdullahi Adamu (Nasarawa), Rose Oko (Cross River), Philip Gwer (Benue), Sonny Ogboji (Ebonyi), Daddy Anyanwu (Imo), Mao Ohuabunwa and Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia).
They spoke at the thank you reception organised by the Ukwa Ngwa Clan to honour the immediate past governor and now senator representing Abia Central, Theodore Orji.
Speaking on behalf of the senators at Ngwa High School, Aba, the event provided a platform for the endorsement of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and Orji for re-election in 2019, Akpabio noted that Abia senators and representatives and Ikpeazu were performing well.
He described Governor Ikpeazu’s performance as unprecedented and unrivaled, urging Abia people to vote for continuity and greater performance.
Chairman of the ceremony and leader of the clan, Emma Adaelu, said the clan, comprising nine of the 17 state local councils of the state, organised the reception to thank senator Orji for rescuing the clan from political obscurity and elevating it to limelight by insisting that Ikpeazu should succeed him.
That, he said, changed the history of its marginalisation in the state governorship position either by appointment during the military era or election in the democratic dispensation.
Responding, Orji described the emergence of Ikpeazu, who hails from Ukwa Ngwa Clan, as his life long prayer and wish, saying that it ensured equity, justice and cohesion as conceived by the state’s founding fathers.
Meanwhile, Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, has urged the state electorate to support his son in-law, Uche Nwosu, to succeed him in the 2019 governorship election, saying all the big names in Imo politics never supported his vision of becoming governor in 2011.
Okorocha, who stated this at the weekend in Owerri, when some elders from Ideato South Local Council visited him, argued that it was only Nwosu could sustain his legacies and perform the way he had done since coming into office in 2011.
The governor said he was elected not on the basis of zoning but on what he could do, insisting that Nwosu would follow his footsteps in not failing Imo people.