IN A TWIST OF EVENTS, DELTA PDP SCRIBE AND EX-GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE FALLS OUT

Dr. Ifeanyi Osuoza, Delta State publicity secretary, and former PDP governor candidate Chief Aghwarianovwe Ikie are exchanging invectives over the Supreme Court ruling affirming Sheriff Oborevwori as governor.

In his opening salvo, Osuoza described Ikie as a mole within the PDP. In a quick response, Ikie countered that he was a founding member of the PDP. He accused the State government of attempting to bribe him with one billion naira.

Osuoza stated that “We have it on good authority that Chief Ikie may have obtained his PDP Governorship form by default in Abuja, and despite his initial denials to the contrary, was a dangerous mole planted inside the PDP by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, in cohorts with certain detractors and other mischievous elements, for the sole purpose of sabotaging our guber primary election and ultimately making a mountain out of a molehill with their forgery allegations, after their comprehensive defeat at the primaries and general election.

In his response, Chief Ikie said he rejected a one billion Naira bribe offered to him by the Delta State government. This was to stop his case against Oborevwori. Chief Ikie noted that it is not true that Senator Ovie Omo-Agege sponsored his case or that he was an APC mole within the PDP; as is now being peddled by the PDP state publicity secretary.

Hear him: "I am a PDP founding member. I would have won my case if I had a financially powerful and influential backer such as Senator Ovie Omo-Agege".

"I fought my case based on personal principles. Had I not, I would have taken the various inducements and run away. After all, if I had been sponsored, the distinguished senator would have had to pay me well above the sum of one billion Naira, which I was offered. This was in order to remain loyal to him."

There is no doubt that right from the moment Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege declared his intention to contest the Delta Governorship, he became the nemesis of Okowa and the PDP in the State. Omo-Agege has always been seen by Okowa and the PDP as their most prominent enemy. All the hate, all the scheming, and all the greed that torments Okowa and the PDP come from Omo-Agege’s presence on the State political scene. Pronto, these powerful animals, to show their anger, have dispatched those diminutive imps called E-rats to unleash all kinds of propaganda, and the campaign of calumny against Ovie Omo-Agege. Osuoza’s assertion is one of them.

It should be on record that Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, CFR, is not distracted by PDP antics, as he is very confident of his victory in his case before the election petition tribunal.

The craze for money and fame in politics has irreparably damaged Delta State. It has left the state sick. It is a dangerous terminal illness caused and fed by greed.