Attacks on Omo-Agege: Same petty script

• Published date: 01 February 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

By Wilson Ruvwoghor

Since consolidating on the jinx broken by the late Pius Ewherido in crashing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) hegemony over Delta Central Senatorial seat from opposition party platforms, Deputy Senate President (DSP) Obarisi Ovie Omo-Agege, has become an albatross for Delta PDP.

This morbid PDP fear of Omo-Agege couldn't have been more intense now than before, ahead of the coming polls. It is more so because Omo-Agege's deliberate move to occupy Government House, Asaba in his soaring political career has become unstoppable. Everyone, particularly the PDP, sees it coming and a very welcomed development at that.

Having conquered, back to back, the best PDP had to offer for elections into Delta Central Senatorial seat in the National Assembly, the state PDP knows Obarisi is confident on replicating these conquests in the governorship race.

The end is imminent for the PDP government of dominance in Delta, which under Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, a.k.a Loan Master, has profoundly elevated the arrogance of incompetence, clannishness, greed, ignorance, divisive politics, and insensitivity to the common good.

Added to eyeing vice presidency, it is in driving this impunity to extremes that Okowa is attempting an unconstitutional third term as governor when he imposed the most misfit of aspirants as PDP candidate to the mockery of his supposed godfather, Chief James Ibori and all Delta Central PDP leaders.

Under this atmosphere of predictable defeat, hardly anyone is surprised that the PDP has chosen to dissipate its last breathe on profuse smear campaigns targeted at Omo-Agege. While Omo-Agege goes about, focused on issues-based campaigns, articulating his social contract with all Deltans on moving the state forward from May 29, PDP is borrowing to engage one rental blackmailer after another for puerile campaigns of calumny in bid to distract Omo-Agege.

We can hear the songs from Delta's already overused familiar professional defamers they hired to slight the Deputy Senate President (DSP). Have Fred Latimore, Olori Magege and some faceless goons not opened their leaking mouths against Obarisi? Have they not failed woefully to sway already made up minds of Deltans to vote most deserving Omo-Agege as next Delta Governor?

Have they not hired Kogi's failed politician turned clown and Atiku Abubakar's briefcase carrier, Dino Melaye, to throw banters as Agege?

Painfully for them, the more they are ranting, the more discerning PDP leaders are defecting to Delta...