Omo-Agege, the incumbent senator, Chief Ovie Omo Agege has emerged winner of the primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Delta Central senatorial seat primary that held at Udu, Udu in the early hours of Wednesday.
Representative of the National Working Committee (NWC) of APC and Returning Officer, General Lawrence Onoja (rtd) said Senator Omo-Agege polled 2,360 out of the 2,414 votes cast, emerging as the winner of the election.
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His only challenger in the primary, Chief O’tega Emerhor, scored zero while 54 votes were declared invalid.
“As the Returning Officer of the APC Senatorial primaries held at Udu, I hereby declare Senator Ovie Omo-Agege winner,” Onoja said.
He also lauded the peaceful manner of the exercise, which according to him, punctured the perception that elections in Warri and Delta State are hardly peaceful.
“When I was coming here from Benue, I was told to be very careful that people in Delta are not good, that I may not come back, I may be kidnapped and I said well anyway, my first son is a colonel in the army now, so if you kidnap me, he will match all the soldiers to this place but when I came here, on the contrary, I discovered that Delta people are very kind,” Onoja said.
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Meanwhile, Senator Omo-Agege has expressed gratitude to God and to the delegates for reposing their confidence in his ability for quality and robust representation at the Senate.
Omo-Agege, who spoke after the primary, said he was overwhelmed by the confidence his people reposed in him by massively voting for him to go back to represent the Urhobo nation at the Senate.
He attributed his landslide victory to his impressive performance in his first term.
“It was a revalidation for the services I have rendered to the Urhobo nation. The people who voted for me they know me.
“They can trust me that I have all it takes to go into the contest and win on behalf of the party. I am very confident, he said.
On the primary which took place on Tuesday in Ughelli where Olorogun Emerhor emerged winner, Omo-Agege said “I know nothing about what happened anywhere else, noting that “This is the only primaries approved by the national working committee of the party, empaneled by the guidelines.”
Meanwhile the All Progressives Congress (APC) has expelled Ovie Omo-Agege, the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly and factional senatorial candidate for the 2019 general election.
APC Delta State chapter led by Cyril Abeye Ogodo took the decision during an emergency meeting of the State Working Committee (SWC ) in Asaba on Wednesday.
The party in a statement titled ‘Delta APC Expels Senator Ovie Omo-Agege’, signed by the party’s Legal Adviser, Dennis Nwanokwai Esq, said its decision to expel Omo Agege from the party followed his “unabated involvement in anti-party activities”.
The statement read in part: “The latest of such activities relates to the hijack of primaries panel members and materials sent from the national secretariat to conduct primaries in the state and deploying same to conduct unauthorised parallel primaries.
“Others are the manipulation and tampering of delegates’ lists and the use of thugs to harass and deprive authentic delegates from access to primaries venues, all that in conjunction with Prophet Jones Erue and others who have earlier been expelled from our party.
“The expulsion of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege is with immediate effect. The SWC also resolved to petition the security services, including the Police and DSS to arrest and prosecute Senator Omo-Agege, Prophet Jones Erue and others for impersonation and others actions calculated to breach public peace.”
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